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It is my pleasure and my honor to introduce our keynote speaker who is the assistant secretary of the army. He assumed his position following confirmation by the u. S. Senate in mid january of this year. His responsibilities include supervising Manpower Personnel and reserve Component Affairs to the department of the army and is the principal advisor of the policy of human resources, training, readiness, military health sales, equal opportunity in marketing among others which makes it striking t...

This is about an hour. So, this is the final panel before our keynote address, and it is the second section looking at the ways in which the military as an institution and military leaders attempted to confront the crisis that most of us have agreed actually did occur following the tet offensive in the vietnam war, the u. S. War in vietnam. I am beth bailey. Ill be moderating this. And sitting next to me is richard hunt, who has written the definitive biography of melvin laird. Next to him is bo...

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[inaudible conversations] the subcommittee was knocking door to frequent objections that use authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. The chair of recognize itself for an Opening Statement. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Today the subcommittee on National Security will examine the department of defense and military Services Administration and oversight of the junior reserve officer Training Corps program, or jrotc. As a sales by congress the statutory pu...

Defense Department Officials testified on junior rotc sexual abuse allegations before a House Oversight subcommittee. Lawmakers began an investigation after the New York Times published an article showing a pattern of sexual abuse among students who participated in junior rotc programs. The subcommittee was knocking door to frequent objections that use authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. The chair of recognize itself for an Opening Statement. Good morning, everyone. T...

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This morning Defense Department officials will testify on junior rotc sexual abuse allegations before a house subcommittee on National Security. The committee undertook the investigation of Sexual Misconduct after the New York Times published an article that showed a pattern of sexual abuse among students who took part in junior rotc programs. Live coverage of this hearing here on cspan2. Through the house rules require that we see members for in attendance at all times. Members appearing remote...

Thanks to our colleagues and witnesses for working with the staff to enable us to put this hearing together fairly quickly. The purpose as you know is to examine 1691 the Border Patrol act of 2014 introduced by senator tester and mccain and this bill would make the badly needed reforms to the system of the Border Patrol for discourtesy too complicated and difficult to manage. I want to talk about what is happening currently along the borders over the past few years have seen a surge in the unaut...

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A leading Turkmen politician, on Friday, urged representation for his ethnic group in Iraqs top government structures, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Aiden Maarouf, Min...