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he was the deputy secretary of defense, and he and mrs. perry came to korea where i was the c5j5 and i was assigned to escort them around. and i had a lot of those kinds of duties while i was assigned to korea. but it was the most pleasant experience i had and i say that honestly, to get to know these two people. and he then became our secretary of defense. and many of us that have served thought that he was one of the best secretary of defenses weve ever had. hes currently a senior fe...

recognizing for us the supported commander was usaid that normally isnt in the emergency response business. so, it was an educational process of how to move forces and yet support usaid and the role of the country team and port au prince. so, it was very informative there. and to back up when we had the first no fooling hurricane that worked its way up the entire gulf coast, the principal committee calls that were generated during the haiti response were then turned around and then bri...

this morning and thank you for all youve done and supporting your husband and his marvelous career. thank you, ms. perry. (applause) >> our speaker this morning, the former secretary of defense william perry, i first met when he was the deputy secretary of defense, and he and mrs. perry came to korea where i was the c5j5 and i was assigned to escort them around. and i had a lot of those kinds of duties while i was assigned to korea. but it was the most pleasant experience i had and i s...

were doing well right now but theres khal lefrpgs we can do better on and thats exactly what were looking forward to do. were looking forward to build upon and leverage what were doing here. communications, that was one of the first things. its different with our active duty forces because you see here, we send our aircraft all around the world. we cant necessarily just invest in some components in the aircraft and call it good because those assets may be gone and deployed but we have ...

>> [inaudible] my experience with the haiti response. in this casey i was working at the deputy principal committee level and working at the white house. but it was really the first opportunity for this administration to work with a very complex response, and then recognizing for us the supported commander was usaid that normally isnt in the emergency response business. so, it was an educational process of how to move forces and yet support usaid and the role of the country team and po...

of the san francisco bay area. fleet week for many years in san francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the first responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of san francisco. this amazing transformation in the last few years was due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and charlotte schultz and mike myers. id like t...

and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or vegetation management program in cal fire, we have a robust program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and vegetation management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u.s. forest service. so two-fold program, vegetation management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a public edu...

for us. its something that we do pay attention to, of course, as we deploy overseas. not necessarily forces we have here in the states. we do understand immediate response, rolling out the gate to help our neighbors in an immediate nature, but i think not so much in terms of mobilization and deploying inside our country. so, this is an area where opportunities like san francisco fleet week will allow us for, and i believe at some point really incorporate this in some internal doctrine ...

Its a marvel to float in a balloon over luxor. flying over the desert, the tombs of the pharaohs. those sights are some of the greatest for tourists to see in this country, and this accident couldnt have come at a worse time. egypts tourism industry has been decimated since the revolution two years ago. the government is now investigating how this tragedy could have happened. alex marquardt, abc news, cairo. a bus carrying the university of maines womens basketball team has crashed near boston...

Base in texas, dogs arent the only ones receiving training. so are military working dog handlers. >> i wanted to keep things, the longer you are with the dog the more he wants to work for you. >> before they are ready deploy with their dogs handlers first need to experience what it is like on the receiving end of a dog in attack mode. >> it is imperative that we train as we fight that we make training very real to try to expose that dog team to something that they will actually be exposed to in ...