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Memorial, great partners. My thing to kick things off with all the students with us this weekend, i really encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans of the battle of midway 75 years ago through 45 years of American Military history. This is our past and your future and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Make the most of it. Id like to welcome admiral frank thorpe to say a few words of welcome before we get started. Good morning. Welcome to the navy memorial. As you all know, our mission here is to honor, recognize and celebrate the men and women of the sea s...

I want to say one thing why were honored and the opportunity you have today. When i look at words like trail blazers legends, the last ace, the medal of honor, why we fought, valor, witness to history, and right here, the turn of the tide. It is an honor to be here. I hope you get a lot out the next couple of days, as was just mentioned this is the opportunity of a lifetime that we have to listen to these great americans who set an example and paved a path for us to walk on. Welcome to the navy memorial. I hope you appreciate the hospitality. When i say that, i hope we make it as great as we c...

I will welcome craig to introduce the next panel. Good morning. My name is craig horn. This morning, we will begin an adventure so when we look back we can see further ahead. Its often been said ignorance of the past can create irresponsibility in the present. Its my pleasure to introduce richard b. Frank, an internationally historian of the Asian Pacific world war. He was consultant for the hbo World War Ii Special on the pacific. In that he wrote, and i quote, the pacific war will inspire a long overdue reawakening of the strategic importance, sheer scale and unsurpassed savagetry of the war...

The way quickly so im going to try to do that. I would like to welcome everybody to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. A great school we have here and a nice opportunity for us to have the latest in a series of speakers at the National Security area, and also thanks to cspan3 people who are here today as well. I started off as a Clandestine Services in the cia in the soviet division, and we were always curious as to what the military people were doing on the other side. Today i get to find out at long last. Jim stejskal is here, our speaker. He has a new book special forces be...

Some of you know me. Im ron marks. I head up the Intelligence Program here. Before we begin our session, and talk about our speaker and everybody gets to sit down, i would like to make sure there is q a at the end, if everybody would be so kind as to shut off your cell phones. Frank fletcher, who is our head of Public Affairs here, has a very large and heavy mike. Hell run to you and get you. So be careful. Were dealing with dangerous people here. The best thing someone who introduces can do is get out of the way quickly so im going to try to do that. I would like to welcome everybody to Danie...