US Navy - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Navy Index / Organizations Transcripts Kathleen Sebelius ...War II veteran, a Silver Star from the Navy , had graduated from college and gon... Tom Harkin ...in the fall of '69—yes. I had been in the Navy for five years. Now I was in th... ...finished school in Iowa, then joined the Navy and became a Navy pilot, like I was. ... Lee Bollinger ...and the person who was secretary of the Navy —they were good people. They seemed t... Shaun Donovan ...and saw Ray Mabus, who was secretary of the Navy , and walked up to him and said... ...crisis when he was posted, I think in the Navy , maybe, as a psychiatrist, to Ne... Michael Strautmanis ...you want a large group of people, then the Navy Room or what have you, the China Roo... Gautam Raghavan ...the [Capitol] Hill, former secretary of the Navy , also a veteran. And his advice was... Ginger Miller ...of interviewing Ginger Miller a US Navy veteran and founder and CEO of Wome... ...our country. So I signed up to go into the Navy , specifically to get the GI Bill to g... ...a career. I said, “Okay, I'll go to the Navy , get the GI Bill, come out, and be a... ...of that nature. But when I got into the Navy , I loved it. It was like a home awa... ...that. I didn't know a lot about the Navy . What I knew was, Navy, water, ships... ...some of the best of the best leaders in the Navy and the Marine Corps. So that when the... ...got out. And I said, Okay, I'll stay in the Navy for twenty-five, thirty years, becaus... ...Especially because, when I went into the Navy , I was going to be that aunt tha... ...up getting a medical discharge out of the Navy . [Sighs] I really didn't want to, bu... Show more... Yohannes Abraham ...the line to pick up food. The line for the Navy Mess's pickup window is truly the grea... John Podesta ...to be sure. Bases, particularly for the Navy , are very prone to extreme weathe... ...call out Ray Mabus, secretary of the Navy , who basically said, “We need to tak... Donald Molloy ...class of 1976 and a veteran of the US Navy , where he served from 1968 to 1973. H... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere