it was like a militia it is more money does not equal a better return for your investment. i swear in marketing more money isn't the answer people will tell you that because they get it cut your advertising agency is going to say you got to spend twenty twenty million on on t.v. ads you want to know why because they get a percentage of the t.v. going to them right here so that's kind of where it is when you're talking about people army stronger this code that you have to get people to put their life on the line what they need to do is focus on word of mouth and actual on the ground staff all the commercials in the world won't make someone put their life on the line well and remember that the military like the military and the pentagon have gotten caught in propaganda advertising issues all over the place because we were there and exactly i was just thinking about that and other mccain fabulous you know them by the because they. get sean stone pointed out in his in his documentary and hollywood do you see that they've been trying to generate something to you know paint this image that we being a perpetual war is

a good thing in today's day and age but man twenty i mean when you look at this audit twenty different programs cost a collective thirty six point eight million in twelve sixteen alone the air margy response to all of this is that the audit ignores that marketing recruiting are separate activities and that they have a lack of marketing understanding or criteria for performance assessment lack of understanding to. this is rich super rich so what they're trying to say is that although their job is to increase recruiting the fact that recruiting has gone down should not affect our just our opinion about their job performance good point. this week go to break our watchers tone for good to let us know what you're good with upwards we've covered a base for good twitter so you're full so that our team dot com coming up we're joined once again by retired brigadier general and best selling author toni tatum

to discuss the best ways for veterans to reintegrate back into society after their service and then we take a trip around the sun. we are good friends with now so stay tuned to watch in the. next guys a financial survival guide stacey let's learn a salad feel like let's say i'm it's like this and your theories on greece some banks have to fight well stay strong thank you for. the story that's true love debt slavery. your column say that. something is good in kosovo oh but so

barcelona oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh but for for crimea . or whatever. you the principle is good or the principle is but has to be a ploy equally and that is. our politics often precludes us from seeing the struggles of those we disagree with for those who are anti-war like myself it can be hard to care about soldiers and what happens to them after the battlefield when they volunteered for a job that we may find

a boring but it is in that act of humanity that we can heal the lasting wounds of war former brigadier general tony tate of for the united states army and author of fiction thriller direct fire joined us recently to give his advice for servicemen and servicewomen adjusting killing and succeeding after their military careers have ended. that's such an important topic of discussion i was getting ready to do a show in my first but book came out about ten years ago and i called the chief of army nurses and because it was a night time to kind of like the frasier crane t.v. show if you remember that it was a nighttime psychologist or psychiatrist i did an hour long call in show and he wanted me to address p.t.s.d. post-traumatic stress disorder and the first thing the chief nurses told me was tony don't call it disorder just call post manic stress because you can grow from that and you're doing exactly what we want every soldier to do you're writing books you found your creative outlet you're building really resiliency into your life and

so how i would answer this question is before you leave find that passion of yours and whether it's you know music or writing or you know engineering or whatever but you always have sort of a side housel you go and where where you're where you're applying yourself in a way that you're not just a bread roll one hundred percent you know soldier you know you want to be the best possible soldier you can but you're better soldier if you have i believe a variety of interests in your well rounded in your in your and you have depth in a certain area and to me that would be my advice is as you're on your journey in the military make sure you have other things because there's other things that you're interested in doing and do them because of the military at the end of the day will thank you very much for your service and then you're on to your your next thing. is it is it is a i mean we see the stories of things like that but but is that how hard is it is

for super civilians how hard is it for that transition you know from from going from a very structured lifestyle. you know i know where to get my food every day i know what i'm supposed to do over there and all of that to. civilian or even if you especially for coming back from a battlefield but just in general you know how hard is that transition. i was talking to a marine wife and her husband the other day and they're making that transition and they were talking about how nerve wracking it was because in the marine corps in the army or any service you know that you go from private to sergeant sergeant to staff sergeant staff sergeant a certain first class or lieutenant the captain it's true and and in the civilian world there's there's no conveyor belt yeah and so you're stepping off of that and you're stepping into uncertainty and there are programs to help there are lots of programs hire heroes usa those types of things that you give them your resume and then companies like the one i lead you know will war we're looking for people that

have clearances that are have good skill sets and that kind of thing that good leadership skills and so we're i run a transportation and energy and defense contracting and consulting company called attack and so we are looking for those kinds of folks and there's employers will hire and also sit on the board of a company that has a social mission this academy securities of in there in the finance sector and then they'll help young servicemen and women and post nine eleven veterans get their financial certificates to be a trader and that kind of thing their social mission is to have fifty percent post nine eleven veterans that work from there about one hundred two employees right now and they're almost there wow that's great that's really good there's you know i did i have you here so i got to ask you interest to interesting letters i got this one it just came to me actually so there's a huge gun debate in this country where our you know we do see it all the time and

it's a good debate i think for the country to have and one of the issues is you know should we be allowing eighteen year olds to purchase you know like an ar fifteen or so and we maybe move that up to twenty one and that got us into a conversation we're talking about should the military age still be eighteen right or should we move that up to twenty one you know where where should you know i'm curious to get your opinion on this is where do you feel it is that moment of like ok if we say that we can't buy this assault weapon tell you twenty one which we consider to be an adult. you know can we can trust an eighteen year old with being able to be made the adult decision that i want to join the military potentially to fight and die for my country that's an interesting kind of a quagmire this country's in a void where it is that decision making i just curious of your opinion well you can enlist when you're seventeen and you can't deploy till you're eighteen that's the current law today and and you know the it's all volunteer force and the great men and women in list today or join the officer corps today are you know

patriots and they want to. know more i want to join for education any that they know they're going to combat and to fight in defense of the country and i think the right thing that we've got what we've got happening right now is the right thing where you know you're it's a career as someone comes out of high school they can go be an auto mechanic they can go be a soldier they can go be you know whatever and then go be a trader on wall street if they get the right certificates and and so i think it's the time that young men and women are stepping into the world and eighteen and then go to college and do whatever and we shouldn't let one thing drive the other and my opinion and the debate on the age for i haven't a semiautomatic weapon and that's vailable for purchase in the united states is a whole different topic of conversation in my opinion than having

a army navy air force and marine corps there and coast guard that can defend this country so they're in my opinion there are two separate debates i can see how they they might come combine in a conversation on the fifteen in age limit and all of that. i was a superintendent of the fifteenth largest school system in the country i know bob runcie down in broward county and very well actually and we've been communicating i've been trying to support of that but. i can there for school security and safety you need the physical building needs to be impenetrable and that's one thing that the school systems have not been investing in that that individual should not have been able to walk into the school system as superintendent and white county i had to press a buzzer to get into my schools and then they would unlock the door even though they knew it was me they could see it was me but an analog part of it was i was

sort of challenge them to say they're going to you know. not not follow the rules because it was important the other thing is you need intel it's like any any thing there are school security personnel and they need to get in the community they need to get in the schools and i would have my personnel do matrix on on the schools that we have and. identify and there's a little bit of judgment call here but i'd rather be a little too far in that way than have seventeen dead children right you know and i'd rather apply my my skills as a leader in an analyst to to make sure that children are safe if you think some of it is that we end up in the discussion about banning a gun or that it's the firearm because we don't want to have that really are discussions that we have it our schools are just the buildings themselves are not safe and we know this for years the twenty years i've heard you know drug dealers

get in schools those kids and suppose you know what in most schools in an urban setting you have to go through a metal detector and everything else than when i go into schools like the you know sort of smaller schools also where you know a little more suburban suddenly it's i just walked into the school and no one stopped me that scary that is very scary and it should not happen to be thirty years because they store children yeah in there and we wouldn't let children in our house right we are or are mean we would lead us anywhere and there is in our house where our children are we would we would you know we lock our doors for art at night and during the day and it's amazing how a simple thing just like got a little bit of security going through a door goes a lot farther than let's say arming a teacher or just a little bit of planning preflighting a little bit of security could actually do make a world of difference in a lot of situations the you also were secretary of north korea department of transportation from the twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen and so i want to ask you

why have your. infrastructure is a major problem in this country right now would be to failing grades at all levels it's something very passionate about the micro is very passion about fixing infrastructure in this country if you were given the keys of the kingdom with your experience what what part of infrastructure would you focus on fixing first that's a great if. you so in north carolina. eighty eight thousand miles of highway twenty two ferries and seventy two airports and two seaports i had three railroad c s southern in north carolina state road hundred transit systems and all of them needed massive amounts of upgrade and support and the sun tzu says if you defend everywhere you defend nowhere so you just can't throw money at everything so you as you say you have to prioritize and and you know really our highway system around the country and all of the bridges the bridges are the real key weak links

in the in the chain and and those need to be assessed and upgraded we were doing that pretty aggressively we're putting a lot of money toward it and i think each state legislature dresses this kind of stuff differently but in north carolina we went to a data driven system and you need to leach the politics out of transportation money because i had a four not billion dollar budget it was one of the bigger budgets in the state government and so you know everybody's kind of pulling on the and what we did is we say all right reducing congestion is the number one criteria reducing travel times number two criteria safety is number three criteria and then there were two sort of alternate criteria is a multimillion all that kind of thing and and then we rank projects based upon whether or not creating jobs i was that was the fifth criteria and so i think what we need to do is nationwide have objective criteria and we ranked airports

seaports you know every mode of transportation against the us and and nationwide i think we need a data driven system and then the and then what you'll see is your top priorities will fall out how are you reducing congestion and how are you increase in your modahl ety power how are you creating jobs and and those projects that do all of those things hard. increasing safety the rise to the top and that's where north carolina we put our money are going to say thank you as always for coming in it's a pleasure to have your be able to talk about such a for a wide range of issues and virtually always of course i think. do you want to be part of the hottest space experiment of our time well you might be able to with a little help from nasa and william shatner the parker solar pope is set to launch from masses kennedy space center in florida on july thirty first of this year the

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the headlines on our international british police a former russian spy and his daughter poisoned with a nerve agent while the media speculates about the crime and its possible role in the incident the u.k.'s home secretary says only should be considered need to make sure that he responds not to put all the evidence that they collect and then decide what action to take. the saudi crown prince has given the red carpet treatment by downing street as protesters nearby denounce riyadh's incursion in yemen. crime and hostility towards native judgments are becoming more widespread in the country's capital that's according to the city's interior minister. and the u.s. and state secretary is on a diplomatic to africa where he's expected to try to persuade the continent to turn

less to china for money and trade. a worldwide news headlines live from moscow this is r.t. international welcome to the program. a former russian spy and his daughter who are now in a critical condition in hospital are believed to have been poisoned with a nerve agent that's according to u.k. police on sunday and huli ascript pollo were found unconscious in the british city of souls pre the country's top counterterrorism officer says the pair were targeted deliberately. this is being treated as a major incident involving attempted murder by administration all the nerve agents and i will not be providing credit information to the state about the exact substance of this has been identified let us remind you who is sort of

a script is he used to serve in the russian military intelligence service but in one thousand nine hundred five he was taken on as a double agent by the u.k. a russia court script pollin two thousand and four and later convicted him of revealing the identities of russian secret agents in europe he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison however he served only four years before being released as part of a high profile spy swap deal with the u.s. he was later flown to britain with more on the ongoing investigation his police boyo. the police officer the first attend on the scene when. his daughter were found slumped on that park bench in souls three the police officer that first attended to them is now also in a serious condition in hospital as a result of exposure to that nerve agent the police have also said that public safety remains a priority at the moment they don't think that there's evidence of

a widespread health risks and they believe that these two individuals so gasquet powell and his daughter were targeted specifically earlier on the home secretary amber ruds she chad an emergency cobra committee meeting about all this that's highly unusual normally only takes place when moments of national crises after terrorist attacks or if there been widespread floods something like that but the home secretary said that it's important at the moment to keep a cool head we need to keep it cool and make sure that we collect all the evidence we can and we need to make sure that we respond. to all the evidence that they collect and then we need to decide what action to take all the newspapers don't seem to have caught that memo though they're having a field day with speculation on the story the tabloids have been talking about a furious boris getting tough with. one particular newspaper had

a splash all about putin swearing revenge on script so for some in the british media this investigation is already a foregone conclusion a number of tabloids were speculating about the future and the fate of the world cup that's something that's got a lot of attention especially after the foreign secretary floated this sort of hypothetical idea of britain potentially boycotting the world cup as for the police investigation the place where there might actually be some facts in this story. well they are working very hard on establishing what happened they say they now have hundreds of detectives working around the clock to try and establish a timeline of events of house script powell and his daughter came to be poisoned by what we now know is not gas. the kremlin strongly denies any connection to the script incident the british foreign minister says the u.k.

is ready to respond if the speculation proves to be true in former u.k. police officer peter kirk and believes such rhetoric creates an unhealthy environment for the investigation. speculation in the media speculation by politicians is never helpful to an investigator when you get any sort of hard profile case you'll find that the media are going. going quite quite loudly about what their theories are and all the rest of it we've had it we've had prawns and rice problems and various other things terrorism sort of the big thing that they get excited about it's not helpful to say the investigating officers investigating officers know they shouldn't be and don't let themselves be swayed by that they follow the evidence it's obviously not helpful. to. the u.s. secretary of state is on an official tour of african nations first stop ethiopia and head of the trip rex tillerson claim that the continent is being exploited by

china an issue that's expected to dominate the upcoming. artie's even down off takes a look at whether africa is a new theatre for us china rivalry. the united states wants africa back in its pocket which is all things considered a bit of a tall order just a few months ago african nations learned that according to trump they well to paraphrase the president kind of stink now the state department is on a bridge building mission we're partnered with after by incentivizing good governance to meet long term security and development goals. this is a stark contrast to trying as approach which encourages dependency using open contracts predatory loan practices or corrupt deals china you see is something of a major headache for washington beijing has been courting african nations for years

the asian powerhouse is involved in crucial infrastructure projects there it's invested billions of dollars in a railroad linking the continent from east to west effectively opening the door for pan african trade kenya is one country in particular that has benefited from china's cash injections it got its own railway the largest infrastructure development since its independence more than half a century ago but even this pales in comparison to a chinese construction firms in bishan xin south africa to build an eighty four billion dollar city. with.

hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aid education investments a chinese t.v. channel for the african audience beijing is going all in here it's stuff power strategy has already made china second most popular destination for african students and its military is in africa to last year china opened its first overseas base with a facility in djibouti the same year it held joint drills with tanzania chinese soldiers have already been here for a few years its peacekeepers have been involved in missions across central africa so is it really that much of a surprise that so. african nations prefer the chinese way over america's sweet talk the chinese has been front and center in providing us with the roads this country has developed op team occupied c.t. in this regard so we're working very hard to go and we believe that walk in to give

would bring about a beneficial relationship china has become successful in africa because china tends to favor and tends to stress civilian projects some years ago the first president bush said the united states had more will than wallet which means it's not offer is not able to offer the kinds of aid that china is so generously providing there is a real fear in washington that china is in the passing lane and that sooner rather than later the chinese economy if it is not already will be larger than the united states economy which will have a monumental impact on the balance of forces globally the only thing incorrect about saying they're in a state that's playing second fiddle in africa is the point that it may be playing third third or fourth at all to various european nations right now china has outrun the united states in africa on every front and it will take more than just words for washington to elbow its way past beijing it has done of oxy.

the british foreign secretary has defended u.k. ties with saudi arabia that's after the saudi crown prince says three day visit to london prompted protests outside downing street i don't i was seeing riyadh deadly three year bombing campaign in yemen britain supports saudi arabia's right to defend its security against missile attacks from yemen many of which have targeted the kingdom cities including react. any solution to the conflict must ensure that saudi arabia no longer faces this cross border security threat roughly four hundred people gathered to protest the royal visit activists condemn the war in yemen and slam the u.k. arms sales to the kingdom a similar concerns were also raised in parliament by the leader of the opposition. humanity.