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That question doesnt come up. When you decide to send a b2 launching from the american midwest to be a show of force in south korea, nobody asked of it comes together. If you think about it, its pretty spectacular. Think about the intelligence, the refueling requirement. How does all this happen. Who is doing that . They are just in the background making things happen every single day. Theres a great tv commercial where the tagline is these guys are good. You have probably seen that. So are my g...

Diplomatically in iraq. Gennaro odiernos comments were part of the hourlong speech on the future of the u. S. Army. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Press club. My name is Angela Greiling keane. Im a reporter for Bloomberg News in the 106 president of the National Press club. We are the worlds leading professional organization for journalists committed to our professions future through programming with events such as this fostering a free press worldwide. For more information ab...

The issue of statelessness among syrian refugee children . Ill take that and get back to you on that. I know statelessness is one of the unhcrs key mandates, fighting statelessness. And its something we pay a lot of attention to globally. And i dont know the answer so ill get back to you on that. Thank you. So lets use this opportunity to give a shoutout if weve failed to to private sector efforts to try to help in this refugee situation. I understand ikea is trying to develop a new shelter, i d...

Walk to a coffee shop or bar and i think that would also help to shift the policy because you cant have a major mega Super Walmart in a walkable environment. And so i think we are choosing in the other areas of our policies and lifestyles we are choosing systems that dont fit with the current food system and i think thats really cool that maybe Something Like urban design or urban planning and maybe by policies which are getting more attention all around the world, not just here in california wh...

Host and how bicultural they are and how accultureateed they will become. Theres a theory ive heard mostly through business folks who are trying to reach this market that, in fact, younger hispanics are interested and maybe middleaged hispanics are interested in this retro acculture ration. Perhaps youre two or three generations in the United States, and you realize, you know what . I do want to teach my children spanish and cook certain foods or listen to certain types of music. Do you see that...

Security issues . What are the things that we have to be concerned with as a nation and what is the armys role in those National Security issues . So i hope we will have a good discussion on that today. We face many challenges today, whether it be budgets and balancing our budget, reducing that debt and what is the right level of funding for our military . We face social problems which was mentioned, such as assault and harassment. We are working on the issues of suicide, the issues of taking ca...

Say yes to your life. When it comes to drugs and alcohol, just say no. First Lady Nancy Reagan as our original series first ladies returns monday night at 9 00. On cspan and cspan 3. Also on cspan radio and cspan. Org. Next, the army chief of staff is at the National Press club. He recently spoke about the u. S. Armys future. He covered a range of topics including budget cuts, Sexual Assaults in the military, and the u. S. Role in afghanistan. He also talked about the situation in iraq, regardin...

Good morning everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review department of defense proposals relative to the growth of personnel costs. We welcome the joint chiefs of staff to testify on these proposals to explain why they support them, what their impact is on the force and their impact on other areas of the Defense Budget. Our witnesses on the first panel are general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general ray chiefs of st...

Mr. Brooks, no. Mr. Veezy aye. Mr. Nugent, no. Ms. Gabbert . Ms. Gabbert . Mrs. Nome . Mrs. Nome, no. Mr. Cook . Mr. Cook, no. Mr. Bridenstine, no. Dr. Winthrop, no. [ applause ] warski, no. Mr. Burn, no. Mr. Mcintyre . Mr. Lopesack . Mr. Lobesack, yes. Mr. Schuster . Mr. Schuster, no. Mr. Johnson . Mr. Johnson . Mr. Carson. Mr. Carson . Ms. Duckworth . Ms. Duckworth . Ms. Duckworth, aye. Ms. Gabbert. Ms. Gabbert. Is there anyone whos not had the roll recorded . The clerk will report the tally. ...

Rebalance and part of that discussion was about amphibious shipping. I think you probably have some people on this committee and in the congress who would ike to help you on this. Hy do you need more amphibious capability, and would you elaborate on the role of our marines, the expeditionary marines and your air responsibility tissue area of responsibility, the effect would the effectiveness of the marines be diminished if there were insufficient amphibious ships or if we dont correct the ensuff...