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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 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 wa...

Aboard this symbol of americas millery power, the uss macon island. What a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the First Responders 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 Francis...

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 fellow at the Hoover Institute and a freeman Foley Institute of international studies. He is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at Stanford University and serves as codirector of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and preventive defense proj...

Them into a confrontation with the United States desire to maintain free access. The best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. So, we want to avoid that. I believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. I believe that our new National Sec...

[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 to pause to thank all three of them for this work. applause and in april of 1996, my last year as se...

The asia pacific region. Secondly, that we would maintain freedom of access throughout that region. In particular, we would maintain the sea lanes in that area, whatever the challenge might be. Even as we reduce our defense budget, therefore we must maintain and would maintain a powerful navy, and that that navy would be charged with maintaining the freedom of those sea lanes. We had, of course, to be concerned as to whether there would be a challenge for that. We observed that the rise and shin...

Program of exercise we conducted. The exercises were not only conducted on military scenarios, but we had an extensive set of exercises involved in humanitarian response. During the time i was secretary, we had a Disaster Response very similar to the one theyre doing here in San Francisco today. We bought naval forces from the United States, from russia and japan all to honolulu where we had simulated a tsunami disaster. And these three great nations brought their fleets to honolulu exercising h...

Stories from the field, if you will, peoples experiences in working in International Environments to help promote humanitarian missions. Fleet week got involved with a humanitarian mission back in october in the earthquake in van, turkey. Theres a heavy kurdish in San Francisco and the. Better recover from their event and how to better prepare in the future from the katz traufk event that had taken place would not occur. We got a phone call at the fleet Week Association to ask if we could help b...

Multiple professional military Education Programs and other venues and the maturing of thinking and policies since 9 11 and katrina. There is a recognition within this analysis that there are gaps in awareness of the capabilities dod can provide in complex catastrophes, as well as the inherent complexities and lack of understanding in our various chains of command and our authorities. The report recognizes what we have used to drive the dsca portion of fleet week, that local authorities are like...

Aboard this symbol of americas millery power, the uss macon island. What a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the First Responders 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 Francis...