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Opioid epidemic. After that, a border oversight hearing. Yesterday the United Nations called for the lift on the u. S. Embargo against cuba. Several Defense Department nominees testified at conformation hearing earlier. Well hear from mark esper asked about Army Readiness and Sexual Assaults in the military. The Senate Armed Services committee is chaired by arizona senator, john mccain. Good morning. Senate Armed Service s committe meets to consider the nominations of mark t. Esper for secretary of the army. Personnel of red naez. Joseph to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And gu...

Service, has been tested. Routinely theyve proven their courage, skill and determination. The burden imposed on our soldiers only gres as threats to our nation increase and sequestration remains the law of the land. Given current operational demands, restoring readiness must be the armys First Priority. Weve made some progress this year towards improving ready brigads ready for deployment. But the army still does nautd plan to return to full Spectrum Readiness until 2021 at the earliest. Meanwhile, the army is woefully behind on modernization and our soldiers are increasingly unprepared to con...

Was about 45 minutes. Thank you, kelly, and want to thank the Veterans Affairs Medical Center here in cincinnati and the allwomens American Legion post 644 for making it possible for me to be here today. And i want to make a special thank you to booktv for helping us spread the word about the longburied treasure of americas military women. This program has given us an opportunity to tell you about a National Treasure which has been all but completely absent with leave from americas historical memory. Even when United States history was required as a summit in high school and subject in the hig...

Veterans moving forward . Delphine metcalffoster number , for all is care for women veterans. Paul how do you go about how does your organization go about promoting those two things . Numbere metcalffoster one, for 9 11, we have our registration staff in washington that promotes this with our elected officials. We are promoted every day. Right now it is just for post9 11. All areas are needed. We are making sure our voices are heard in our local areas and districts we are living in. Paul the disabled American Veterans has 1. 3 million members. Now, delphine metcalffoster. Remind us of what thi...

Haiti though it never was a war was fascinating series of coup detats and revolutions and so on. And then the iraq war which itself was kind of several different wars, so i dont know what that number would be, three, four. Depending what you consider wars and whatnot. And another question, what is your attitude about war . Mark well, from my last book which was called stripping bear the body, i based that title on a quotation by a haitian politician, fascinating man, who said Political Violence is like stripping bear the body, the better to remove the clothing to place the stethoscope directly...