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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 bob griffith, who is the worlds expert on the creation of the allvolunteer force, and next to him is j...

By celebrating emily this phenomenal panel and this phenomenal. Well, joining us on American History tv is beth bailey, a professor at the university of kansnd lawrence, the author of this book, an aus army confrs racial crisis in the vietnam era. Well talk about that in a minute. But dr. Ba, teach at duke . Mainly military history. Us military history, occasionally history, gender and sexuality, which was my previous incarnation before i became convert to military history. How did you get into military history . I hate say it, but it was actually a televisionommercial Army Recruiting commerci...

Kansas and lawrence, the author of this book, an army of fire how the us army confronted its racials in the vietnam era. Well talk about that in a minute. But dr. Bailey, what do you teach atus military history, occasionallyry, nder and sexuality, which was my previous incarnation before i became milary history. How did you get into military history . I hate say it, but it was ly a Television Commercial Army Recruiting commercial. Advertising postcold war pre 911. And realow do sell the army when supposedly is the end of s all resolved they were selling the army as social good as you know taki...

Shipbuilding plan. Are you concerned with that and what more do we need to do, what can congress do to help you overcome that ship shortfall . Senator this is an area where navy and marine corps have been discussing and again have realized together although the requirement, the military requirement is 38, the current fiscal environment is going to drive us to 34. I appreciate the assistance of congress to getting us to 34 to address those that gap between the requirement and what we can resource, were looking at augmenting our lift there with other platforms besides gray hulls. Gray hulls are ...

To 346 ships. And our Combatant Commanders say they require 450 ships. With continual high operational tempo, we will continue the downward spiral of military capacity and readiness until congress acts. I look forward to discussing many of these today. First, each forward class Aircraft Carrier has experienced more than 2 billion in cost growth. This Program Continues to be plagued by Technology Immaturity and a lack of reliability test data for critical systems. This is unacceptable. I repeat. Unacceptable. And i fully expect the navys ongoing study of alternative Aircraft Carrier designs to ...