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A Special on Military Training Institutions

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The Disadvantages of Teaching at the Naval Academy

The Naval Academy was a very desirable billot because you were right next to Washington DC, the Naval Academy in many ways it's right on the ocean and it's beautiful. I met those groups of faculty members they were very conservative but when the war heated up there was the faculty lounge and they had CNN on one television and Fox on the other. My own father who had flown 40 missions on a B-29 out of Tinian had landed on three occasions with either bullet damage or wounded person or mechanical difficulties. The campaign to take Iwo Jima in early 1945 was a waste of time according to his research. We lost 7,000 I think dead and that it had no utility according

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