US Navy - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Navy Index / Organizations Transcripts Michèle Flournoy ...they work on such long timelines, is the Navy . It completely threw off the shi... Elizabeth Phu ...across the US government, was, the US Navy is not the answer to Somali piracy. W... ...to Somali piracy. We cannot send the US Navy out, or any combination of navies out... John Brennan ...bring the different services—the Army, the Navy , the Marines, the Air Force—int... Robert Gates ...in the South China Sea involving the US Navy ship Impeccable, where it had bee... Chuck Hagel ...and going to your protectors up there, the Navy or the Air Force or the Army, an... ...and a chief of naval operations of the Navy . I had them impanel a taskforce o... Michael Leiter ...in public service, which began in the US Navy as a flight officer after attending ou... ...in 1991, when I graduated, going into the Navy was probably not the most common pat... ...stool, I guess—if the first was the Navy and experience in national security... ...Resistance, and Escape] school in the Navy [laughs], so I saw them. I saw a littl... ...I was also a former aviator from the Navy . The second thing I thought about wa... ...because I was a lieutenant when I left the Navy . At that point, we start laughin... Show more... Michael Mullen ...September of 2011 and retired from the US Navy after forty-three years o... ...positions at the Naval Academy, in the Navy 's Bureau of Personnel, in the Offic... ...of the Secretary of Defense, and on the Navy staff. He was the thirty-second vic... ...lessons from earlier in your career in the Navy that turned out to be important i... ...a buoy. That's become fairly famous in the Navy , as you can imagine. And I talk abou... ...of the Joint Chiefs. I'm the head of the Navy . And because we were flying him aroun... ...he was being flown around with the Navy . But it was very, very superficial... ...did you play? I took over as head of the Navy in 2005. I knew at that point in tim... ...for it. Obviously the focus would be on the Navy , which is a much-smaller piece of th... ...I'd been through a bunch of that on the Navy staff with them, so I knew a lot mor... ...or, even before that, as head of the Navy , when I was a member of the Join... ...said, I think in 2005, when I took over the Navy —because the Navy owns that property, ... ...2005, when I took over the Navy—because the Navy owns that property, I went down there... ...the thing. The money was coming through the Navy . I had the Navy money, so I was awar... ...was coming through the Navy. I had the Navy money, so I was aware of all that. ... ...because the CIA was running it, the Navy general counsel was a hero of min... ...who took over the money, and I had the Navy 's money. So, as they were rewritin... ...in the Middle East when I was head of the Navy . And I paid a lot of attention... ...east to west. The example I use is, in the Navy the only way you're going to get a ne... ...in September '11 and retired from the US Navy after forty-three years o... ...In my previous life as the head of the Navy , I had engaged the head of their navy... ...that moves forward to when I'm running the Navy , and now I'm paying a lot of attentio... Show more... Mark Lippert ...guy who went on to become an admiral in the Navy , Brian Losey, who had the experienc... ...say that there was some concern from the Navy , that said, “This will engende... ...recall, subject to amendment, was that the Navy has completely privatized its football... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the East Wing East Wing go to the Science Science go to the Black Politics Black Politics go to the Russia Russia