John W Quinn

Senior Chief, USN, Ret. 82-02. Carriers, Battleship, Destroyers
Born with Cerebral Palsy.
Author of the memoir Someone Like Me.
Motivational Speaker. Sober.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

I served in the Navy with cerebral palsy. Served over 20 yrs standing the watch on carriers, battleships and destroyers. Retired Senior Chief Petty Officer. Someone Like Me tells the story. Looking for a motivational speaker, pls keep me in mind. Thanks! https://t.co/hmD7CaU6Lk

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@SGTWipper1Each I just quit trying to control everything and everyone. Lowering my expectations for people. Handle my own business. That’s what helps me.

[Ned Middles @NedMiddles1]

I love the POLICE SQUAD bit of killing off that week's Special Guest Star in the opening credits. Solid gag.

[Hung Cao @HungCao_VA]

This is America’s sons and daughters at their very best. Young men and women, ages 18-24 navigating a 100,000 ton ship, launching and recovering a $100M high performance aircrafts on a runway that moves.

So proud to be an American and serving our Sailors and Marines.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@SGTWipper1Each Wake up before the sun.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@Rick861838 Ever since I was a kid. Even wrote one myself.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

Incredible what the mind and body can achieve with hard work and discipline. Wow. https://t.co/a4Jk61Eger

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@SGTWipper1Each Mr. Roberts
In Harms Way
Run Silent, Run Deep
The Gallant Hours
The Caine Mutiny
The Sand Pebbles
U-571

Delete - Midway (2019)
Battleship and Under Siege.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@navyvetmurph Have you ever toured the Midway now that it’s available for tours in San Diego? It’s a big attraction there. It would be interesting to be a former crew member and walk the decks again.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@JayJosephVet I've been retired from the Navy for almost 25 years now and if I needed anything - my military buddies would drop anything in a second to be there for me. My civilian friends? They would wish me luck and continue to scroll down their phones.

[Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer @EvanKirstel]

@libsoftiktok

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

I loved serving in the Navy. Two carriers, a battleship and destroyer sailed me all over the world. Looking back, I was to young to appreciate the places I saw such as the Vatican, Pyramids and Israel. I was so fortunate. https://t.co/0at2qNUdpG

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Scott Bessent Announces The Treasury Department Will FREEZE Funds to NGOs Funding Left Wing Terrorism

"At President Trump's direction, Treasury is expanding its efforts to identify organizations that abuse charitable and nonprofit structures as vehicles for illicit finance."

"We are examining where tax-exempt status has been exploited, where charitable entities have become financial conduits for foreign influence activity, and how those entrusted with stewardship of these organizations have instead enabled violence."

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 Marco Rubio just got a HUGE applause after dropping this line on leftist violence and walking off stage:

"It is easy to destroy great things. It is far more difficult to make them. The enemies of civilization are only capable of the former."

"They are only capable of destroying great things. All they know is destruction. But we have built great things together."

"We have done it time and again. We know what we must do. And now we must do it. Thank you for coming today."

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@ThrillaRilla369 Quit drinking today.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@JayJosephVet Knowing your job - then delegate tasks so your troops can learn and grow.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@EODHappyCaptain @uiwcardinals Welcome aboard! Get a haircut and check the watch bill - you have the next watch.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.

Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.

Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.

No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.

So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.

When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.

The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.

At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.

They convicted him anyway.

For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.

Case closed. For fifty years.

Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.

He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.

A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.

The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.

Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

Not a bad view to have with my coffee this morning.

[John W Quinn @JohnWQuinn]

@bythewaybro @BNightengale That's his agent talking. Just BS for the press.