WETSU: a BattleshipNJ Podcast

WETSU is built around the Battleship New Jersey, but it is not only a museum show. It uses the ship as a living setting for conversations about naval service, readiness, memory, and leadership. The format is direct and interview-led. A guest arrives with a career, a command, or a tie to USS New Jersey, and the episode gives that person room to tell the story in full. Recent episodes move through engineering at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, the reactivation of USS New Jersey, Military Sealift Command, Naval Supply Systems Command Weapons Support, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, Naval Weapons Station Earl, and the origins of the WETSU motto itself. That range gives the show a useful texture. One stretch might explain ship systems, testing, cybersecurity, or parts forecasting. Another might pause on Beirut, a commissioning crew memory, a dry dock milestone, or the feeling of stepping back into an inport cabin. The show is most compelling when technical detail and human recollection sit side by side. It respects acronyms and ship names, but it also keeps asking what the work means for sailors, crews, and the larger Navy. Battleship New Jersey remains the emotional center. The conversations keep returning to the people who served aboard her, the people preserving her now, and the wider maritime community around New Jersey and Philadelphia. The result is oral history with practical muscle: less polished documentary narration, more knowledgeable conversation with people who have actually kept ships, aircraft, submarines, supply chains, and commands running.