CAPT Richard "Dick" McKenna: From Saigon's Fall to Battleship New Jersey's Return

What does it take to bring a battleship back from the dead and then send her into combat? On this episode of WETSU, Battleship New Jersey CEO Marshall Spevak sits down with Captain Dick McKenna, USN (Ret.), the ship's plank owner executive officer. A 1963 Naval Academy graduate, McKenna served aboard destroyer escorts, an LST, and a frigate before finding himself XO of USS Kirk during the fall of Saigon in April 1975, where his ship helped rescue tens of thousands of South Vietnamese refugee...