Half. Good morning, we are going to call this committee to order. Thank you all for being here to discuss your fy 2024 budget priorities, i think this is your last appearance before this committee, we extend a particularly warm welcome to you and wish you the best in your upcoming retirement, and we dont really care whether you retire in maine or montana. [laughter] but either place will work. You can move back and forth, rather than kansas. [laughter] at any rate, i want to say thank you for what you guys do. The National Guard has all has always done more with less. The Weapon Systems in vehicles and aging i. T. Infrastructure and facilities. The men and women that you lead have one foot in civilian life and the other foot in the military. They juggle their homes, families, duties. While serving their countries here and abroad. The workload is not decreasing and the Ongoing Mission on the southwest border and your support to military command demonstrate exactly that. Over the last fi
The navy maintain s a stunt and enduring prince of 100 ships and submarines forward deemployed rained the globe to ensure the freedom of maritime. The challenges facing the 21st 21st century navy have never been greater. There are those who would argue that the greatest challenge donations navy has come from our own congress. Over the decade of continuing resolutions and fiscal restraint and budget control act, has had a cumulative effect of degrading the capacity, capabilities and reddiness of the u. S. Navy. In light of these increasingly complex Maritime Security environment and the recently released National Defense strategy, the discussions today could not be more timely. As retired submariner myself, im greatly honored to host the cno today. I, too was also a physic major and we also share another common piece in our history that admiral will talk about. Admiral john richardson, graduate from the United States Naval Academy in 1982, batch of or describes in physics has masters fr
April 1775 that got me fixated on what happened on that date and then the events that led to the American Revolution in the period between the revolution and the constitution. But i have not understood that neutrality for a bad project that fired up those colonies late in the 18th century. W so with that majestic effort in it is ironic that impeachment is little understood by the people can you expand on that . And to get something to do a lot of stuff on balance and it went into trouble after the revolution to have the fetus of monarchy into betrayed those principles for word. And one of the safeguards there is the power of impeachment. It has not been ratified. And with that Philadelphia Convention to be fatally flawed. What does impeachments mean the most and what is it compared to the perception . But first to do with roots in england. With the house of representatives gets to do what it wants that is the big mistake the grounds for impeachment to sharply committed t and that if th
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Bags before letting passenger threat continues. Jackie roland, al jazeera, brussels. President barack obama spoke during the second leg of his latin america trip. John terrett reports. In latin americas Third Largest economy. Today, after the brussels attacks, his isil policy quickly cropped up in reported questions. My top priority is to defeat isil and to eliminate the scorage of this barbaric terrorism thats been taking place around the world. We see highprofile attacks in europe, but they are also killing muslims throughout the middle east, people who are innocent, people who are guilty only of worshiping islam in a different way than this organize. Reporter he said fighting isil was his number one priority prior to and that of his military and intel Genesis Services around the world. They are poisoning the minds of young people everywhere, not just in europe but in the United States and undoubtedly in arran argenti argentina. Reporter he was asked about muslims living in america.