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Thank you for your service. Thank you. One more, go army. Go army. Wow. It scars me. All right. Now we will get to kerry. Hey, guys we are here with Staff Sergeant harry with the air force. Recruiter with the air force. We talk to you in this thing about an her ago. He walk right back in the studio and proceeded to vomit. This was pretty tough. I was telling q my husband is a pilot. This will simulate 2gs in g forces. These guys get beat up when they are traveling, you know, upward of 6gs. Yes, ...

And there are so many other things that go into what quality of life really means, how often do you move and your spouse get a job, that sort of thing. In terms of quality of service, were hearing more and more from our people that theyre sort of surprised by all this. What really matters to them more than keeping this high rate of growth is they want to fight in a modern and ready force. They want to go to work every day, and they want to have parts in the bin where they can repair the thing th...

[inaudible conversations] next day here in looking how veterans are transitioning to civilian life. In a washington journal segment on the destruction of chemical weapons and later a discussion about brain injuries and the elderly. A lot of people dont know how difficult it is. I dont know one person may be in this room that can juggle the things me and my husband have to juggle every single day with having three children on medical disabilities going back and forth to work sometimes maybe havin...

For our first panel, and we will now call of our second panel. Vikki so much, both of you, for your testimony. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we now welcome our second panel for witnesses, outside with his socalled, retired army general john kelly junior, the chairman of the board of the military Officers Association of america. Retired army general gordon sullivan, president and chief executive officer of the association of the United States army. Retired air force Master S...

Without ever doing that. And so i literally would do things that started to build relationships. You want something to fall back on when you disagree on the issues. When mike says something and youre sitting across the table. You know, i know mike and his value set. There is something to fall back on. I see the same thing in board rooms for corporations. If they come in periodically to my you are not apt to get a very effective outcome. I think that is huge. The strategy part is not that hard. F...

Attack shortly before the fbi acknowledged the countrys involvement. Just a short announcement. Secretary hagel authorized 1300 more troops to deploy to iraq. Approximately a thousand of them are soldiers from the Thur Burr Gade combat team 8nd air division based in fort brag in north carolina. This is part of the additional 1500 troops the president authorized in november. With that i will take questions. You said 1300 but only a thousand listed. Do you know where they are coming from . The oth...

On the surface of things, we , t dont stand a chance. Hat but i cant believe that. I have to believe that there is hope. I have to believe that the y. Upcoming generations will see through all this buying of democracy, will see through the neocons always going for their gun first. I think the kids today are smart, i think that they will see through on this, and i think eventually they will find their, way of protesting. Ontin the way i was brought up is to speak my mind through music. And thats ...

Eligible population, dont even meet the basic requirements to get into todays army. 99 of todays recruits have a High School Diploma or equivalent. An era where 79 of High School Students graduate. Thats 21 times lower rate of dropouts than the national average. Overall, todays recruits are healthier, more physically fit than the vast majority of peers and must adhere to zero tolerance policy on drugs and criminal issues. It is actually statistically easy tosh gier to get into coll enlist, not b...

Believe that if those black regiments had been allowed to lead the assault, that would have been it. In other words, we can imagine black soldiers marching, charging over blanford hill, right, into petersburg. Thats a very soothing image. I think that tells us more about how we want to remember the war than the battle itself, because anyone who has studied civil war battles, they never go as planned. Right . Theres always something that goes afoul. So is it any surprise that given this massive d...

Dillon, we learned blowing in the wind. The answer, my freiend, is blowing in the wind. Pop could literally live it because it was real with him. He would tell us a lot of stories. Between pops and my grandmother, man, those were the best times sitting on the floor listening to stories. But hed sing, if i had a hammer, id hammer in the oh, he was something. Just genius. Just genius. And it was such an honor to meet a man like pete seger. Just like we were invited to blues festivals, we were invi...