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Sam LaGrone
@samlagrone
Naval reporter for @USNINews Fmr: @JanesINTEL , @newsobserver, @vmialumni Content ≠ any official @NavalInstitute stance on anything.
May 5, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Everyone else is writing about #Moskva today! We've been working on this one for about a week looking at the most likely scenario for the engagement on April 13 and a former Navy captain has an excellent explanation for the most likely scenario. First off, the intelligence the U.S. provided Ukraine is probably nothing more than the general position of the ship, which had been operating in the same waters since the start of the war.
Similar info you could get from commercial SATCOM.
Jan 21, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Spent the better part of yesterday trying to get behind why there was a mass of Navy iron in the Phil. Sea and got a reasonable answer on background but nothing on the record after a lot of phone calls. What was striking about this assembly is how fast Lincoln scooted across the Pacific. Deployed from San Diego on Jan. 3 and Phil. Sea by the 17th. For a CSG that's fast.
Aug 15, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
.@nancyayoussef and @glubold do a fine job catching everyone else up on the strain faced by the @USNavy at the moment. But this story includes a key point folks often miss:

wsj.com/articles/to-ge… Image @nancyayoussef @glubold @USNavy There is no incentive for the combatant commander not to ask for everything under the sun and it's tough for the services to say, "no."
Feb 27, 2020 • 31 tweets • 7 min read
Where did the specific 350+ fleet number come from?
I have some answers. In the late 70s, early 80s the U.S. was concerned about the rapid build up of the Soviet Navy and expansion in operations worldwide.