and i would like to see the internal operations and also their daily operational processes. to see how these can be improved. i think it would be beneficial to have an outside agency do this. so i think these are important aspects should be included with a sum of the money that's going to be spent for it. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there a second. >> second. >> for discussion, all in favor say aye. >> so ordered. >> a discussion regarding the bench marking public transportation. >> okay. director, riskin, is this you you? >> we asked the city services auditor to provide this presentation. they took a bench mark study and other systems around the country that had some pretty interesting findings and i thought that the board and the public would be interested in hearing them, so peg stevenson is here with her staff. >> good afternoon, staff. the charter -- the city service auditor causes for our office to do data analysis and calls for bench marking of san francisco public services to other agencies so that's the context this falls into. we've done reports on the departmen

>> it was a sting operation. >> if it was a sting operation i'm busted for going there.on me. >> in fact, they did. can i show you videotape. would you like to take a look. >> worth $10 million. >> you're bragging there, j.r., about robbing a guy. you don't feel bad about it. >> after seeing himself on tape, j.r. says he was just blowing smoke. >> this is just a made up person. >> you just made it up. >> yeah, i just made it up. >> you talk about taking the bentley. you taking the bentley. >> i was trying to be cool. >> j'leon r. has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison. >> i never had a gun in my life. >> then there's alicia. a woman who bragged she's never worked a day in her life. she pleaded guilty for her visits to the storefront. the sheriff said his department's proactive policing is working. >> our crime numbers are down. >> warns crooks should think twice before committing a crime in las vegas. >> what do you say to criminals who see this and have their eyes on las vegas. >> watch out. we're in a lot of different places doing a lot of d

they are requesting that we use this years operating contingency and there's not an operating contingency proposed but you see a larger amount proposed for ac transit expenses. with that i'm happy to answer any questions. >> i guess just on that last point it sounds like the operating budget wasn't adequate this year at least without going into the contingency which is what the contingency is for so that's fine so we're eliminating the contingency. >> that's correct typically the operating contingency has been the amount that has not been allocated to specific line item or ac transit but would get us up to the grant the rm 2 grant amount which escalates each year. so this year rather than doing a transfer later in the year, based on what they are projecting -- >> we're fairly confident that their costs won't continue? i know their ridership is up quite a bit. >> they actually requested more than the 2.9 million that is in this years budget this is as much as we could afford without dipping into other sources of funds beyond the grant if their expenses are higher next year we can look at w

>> it was a sting operation. >> if it was a sting operation i'm busted for going there.'m sure they had a camera on me. >> in fact, they did. there's videotape. would you like to take a look? you're bragging there, j.r., about robbing a guy and you don't feel bad about it. you feel like robin hood because the guy is a wealthy man. why did you say stuff -- >> to one person. they could have been tom, dick, and harry. how can they arrest me or hold something against me if there's not a victim. there was no victim there. >> there are victims -- >> apparently somebody had a bentley stolen. >> did you steal the bentley. >> no, i didn't steal the bentley. you asked me that already. >> up to now j.r. sticks with his story. he seems unfazed by the undercover sting video. when i show him video of someone else he knows, that's when he's taken by surprise. '6 . >> who is that? >> that's my daughter. >> that's your daughter? >> i didn't know -- >> you had no idea your daughter was involved? >> no. >> j.r., how could you not know? >> my daughter did not live with me. my daughter and i

and, thus, as a whole, they anticipated operating expenses. next appellants claim that free sunday parking will have environmental impacts that must be examined under c-e-q-a. this includes traffic and air quality impact. the department's response to this concern is that under c-e-q-a we are not required to examine the environmental effects because loss of revenue is part of the budget restructuring, which is wholly exempt from c-e-q-a by statute regardless of potential environmental impacts. with the statutory exemption, mta is not required to further analyze environmental impacts. finally, the appellants claim that mta's decision violates the city's general plan and charter and in essence, the merits of the project are not relevant as to whether mta correctly issued a statutory exemption. the project's desirability does not determine whether it qualifies for statutory exemption. supervisors, the vote before the board is whether to uphold the determination the sfmta budget is within the statutory exemption and to deny the appeal or to overtur

when do we expect to have a full lineup of operators? about four or five years. your on-time performance in which as stakeholders we would love to be on-time, but you know what we are telling our members? be safe. and if they are to be safe, they shall follow the rules of the agency. stopping at all stops, making sure all senior citizens and babies and carriages are followed up at the stop before they move. no right turns on red, all of the above. if we did that, if all of our members took that into account and did what they are supposed to do, not that we don't want the system to be on-time, you think -- what is it right now? about 60%? if most our members that are on the platform right now did what they were supposed to do, it would probably be at an unbelievable about 40% on-time. but our members are out here working hard, trying to keep it going. pushing the system, getting into incidents and accidents. thank you. >> thank you. anyone else wishing to address the board on this topic? seeing none, nobody has represented that this will solve all of the mta's pro

i was told by an operator i am not allowed to do ti was told by another operator i have a legally allowed to be new [speaker not understood] on this bus system. it is not funny. it's my right and this is what i personally believe in. there are [speaker not understood] who would love to get on the trolley car system or any of the buses, but they're not allowed to because the operator does not feel comfortable to it. so, i could you guys give me something in writing that states i'm legally as is every nudist in this city, free to ride a funded and nonfunded area. i'd like to be insight of city hall to [speaker not understood]. i've been kicked out. please get down to the bottom of this and please get it in writing because this is ridiculous how i'm being treated and how my fellow [speaker not understood] are being treated. thank you, and have a good day. >> next speaker. >>> good afternoon, mr. president, members of the board. i had not planned on saying anything, but the more i listened at the colloquy between the appellants and the representatives from the meeting, i felt compelled to iss

not just operating from ships, but operating very far from land. and now, you know, so in vietnam they went out of the blue waters of the navy into the brown waters of south insurgency -- counterinsurgency and deep into the jungle, laos, cam pose ya and vietnam. -- cambodia and vietnam. ..

and provide evidence for why the decision to stop enforcing metered parking on sundays helped meet operating expenses. >> what -- should it have been an e-i-r, negative declaration, [speaker not understood], what are you arguing they should have issued, what kind of document? >> i'm not argument that they couldn't have somehow done this within their resolution in the documents that they provided. that would depend on what they find and what the substantial evidence was provided there. but they would have had to make a decision. they would have had to look at what was being done and explained the rationale for doing so. >> i think whatever was listed in the attachment, for example, they made a decision which one can agree with or disagree with. you're saying the statutory exemption could apply? >> if they had made the correct findings and they had correctly identified what it was applying to. >> and would you agree that a statutory exemption, unlike a categorical exemption -- statutory exemption, if something fits into that exemption, then it's exempt regardtionv of potential environmental im

>> operating reactors need both -- let me just say, operating reactors need pools because when they discharge fuel it is hot and needs the water circulation to keep cool. you need a spent fuel pool. when the spent fuel is aged at least five years, right now the united states it can be then transferred. and those dry casks are safe, passive systems. the spent fuel pools are active systems and require active circulation of water. >> okay. didn't the nrc studies show that even at decommissioned reactors it was never possible to rule out the possibility of a spent fuel fire? >> i think there are a variety of studies out there. i could take that for the record because i myself would like to see more analysis of the number of these issues. >> are any of you familiar with any studies? show that there could, in fact, be a fire? >> yes, senator. there could be a fire. the question is, how likely is it. the nrc studies have shown it is extremely unlikely. that is what the studies say. >> the commission recently voted to allow plans to continue to overfill these pools as long as they wish to do so. each

the operators did bring this to a vote and they rejected it. there was an arbitration scheduled for saturday and we will be at that arbitration hoping to get final ruling from the arbitrator which per city charter would be binding. if no more questions on that, i want to thank director callahan and steve who has been helpful to us in this process. >> i would like to say a word on the whole thing if i may. just in observation, someone who rides the system everyday, i'm profoundly aware of how vital this system is to so many people. for some of us, it's an inconvenience and for some of us, it's a crisis and i hope everybody is aware of that. you see people there who would not be able to go anywhere without it. and i hope to see arbitration -- i hope this is all over today, but the arbitration is over and back to work full-time next week. thank you callahan. >> that was really just focusing on one bargaining unit, but what we're doing here today is another requirement that i believe is in the city charter which is to publicly disclose the agreemen

s role in operation enduring freedom. a role that was carried out in the days and weeks after the attacks on our country on 9/11. the c.i.a. team entered afghanistan on the 26th of september. 15 days after the attacks. one of the reasons we were able to go in so quickly is that we had a contingency plan on the shelf for doing just this. and on the 14th of september, director tenant briefed president bush on the c.i.a. contingency and the president, said, i want c.i.a. to be the first team on the ground. the second team into afghanistan entered just weeks later on the 17th of october. this team has a different kind of mission, a tactical mission. their job is to set up an intelligence shield across the top five provinces of afghanistan, and working with native partners to collect intelligence to shape the battlefield. when i interviewed the head of that second team in, he confided to me that as they flew in, they were going over their mission. they knew it was to link up with a native insurgency, train them and run operati

for peer 27 and 35 cruise tenors they selected metro to organize the operations crews will be operated by crews and special events will be handed by the studios. parking will be managed by in park every metro those uses were studied in the eir approved in 23450679 and 2011 to we've laid out the information we've provided more information specifically to hosting cruise events and seeing 0 how the ground parking capacity impacts the facilities and metro and staff have agreed to a booking procure that makes cruise calls priorities and metro will provide an monthly update with the fees of the infrastructure and they'll comply with the city ordinances and addressing light and other things >> as noted in the may 13 presentation staff port staff still has not secured a b c amendment to allow part time parking at the ground area so we've attached two attachments that talk about the b c progress. exhibit c is the base case which is the that was similar to what was shown on may 13th this scenario shows that scenario 3 hundred and 0 thirty are parking spaces and 3 cruise calls and an estimated am

and for our operators, war fighters and other operators, intelligence drives this. when directed by the president, the intelligence committee gives additional operations with diplomacy and military force. these are important as well. and offense course preventing stretegic surprise. this is an advantage to us that is important but it has to be used aggressively and prudently to make sure we are helping our leaders solve problems and not adding to their problems. and of course as you conduct operations there is inherent risk in them and the risk-gain is something that we look at all of the time and continue to evolve. now i would like to talk about investment we are making here with capabilities. i have grouped it into five areas focusing on national intelligence on the defense strategic guidance and then the defense review and the soon to be released national intelligence strategy. i group it into global coverage, the ability to operate in anti-access areas, denial environments, sustaining capabilities in counter terrorism operations and adding to them in proliferat

on the proposed contract, i pulled off your website states that muni coach operators or muni operatorsired after july 1, 2011 will receive $30.91 an hour, which of course, we're going to put a little bit more into our pension also. so we'll end up getting -- even though we're getting less than operators before -- hired before july 1, 2011, which the proposed wage is $32.94, we're getting $1.03 less. and then lastly, the average 8-hour day, 40 hours a week [pa-eurbgs/] muni coach operators hired after july 1, 2011 were putting in 5% of our pay, 8 hours -- 8 hours comes out to $3078.43 and the operators that were hired before had that immediate spendible cash because sfmta was puttinging that amount into their pay. i would like to see equal pay, you know, for everyone. and$0. 21 is not enough and we should have equal pay. thank you very much. >> thank you. director heinicke, you have a question? >> well, first of all, mr. ballister, thank you for your service to the city and you have come down before and helped us understand things better. the information that he provided is not consiste

i ended up running all of the operations is the chief of operations and in particular my heart within investigation i spent the majority of my career there trying to toga to what it is today. as david said 123,000 arrests. that's 10,000 month. 10,000 people arrested a month by the marshals service nationwide and its task forces. we have 3500 deputy marshals. of those probably 1500 full-timg fugitives. we have about 3000 state and local officers that participate on her nationwide task forces. we have seven regional task forces such as lenny's and we have the district task force nationwide so it's a network to catch bad guys and take the worst of the worst off the streets. the stories of what this book is about the men and women of the marshals service initially. we started back, the modern-day enforcement arm of the marshals service apprehension and crime reduction program of the marshals service started in about 1980. so it's only 37 years old. we actually have in the book, you will read the original person who started this program tells how it got started and who he worked for. he wa

the operation itself. do you know how many civilians i don't know if you really don't marriage so or how many civilians we monks of killed accidentally all of them to the arab yeah is that where you mean yes or no and in fact one of the one of the things that executive outcomes is very proud of is that in both of those wars in angola and sierra leone there was never one single charge made against of that had been any kind of atrocity. committed by us now that's actually a track record which i think most regular armies would be jealous of but so when you were talking to local people outside the operation did they treat you as liberators our enemies. they treat this is as liberators absolutely no in fact no more the case i was at he approached by the men all over town in sierra leone a place called koidu by the men who senior counsel those who had a bag of money that they gave me who tried to get me because they had that we were withdrawing from. that particular place on the orders of the government and it a

canada certainly sets no binding regulations for the operation of our mining companies operating overseas. >> 75% of the world is major mining next duration companies -- world's major mining companies are from canada. canada unfortunately does nothing to regulate big companies operating overseas. but we are doing is looking at this mine and trying to determine whether or not the company and the government are living up to their own poor human rights obligations. if this mine is going to be open, is the company operating in a responsible way that ensures the people's human rights are protected? he answer to that question until now has been no. -- the answer to that question until now has been no. >> the spirit shows what can go wrong when canada undertakes large-scale -- this shows what can go wrong when canada undertakes large-scale operations overseas. but what happens at home raise similar questions. in canada, more than 1000 first nations communities live near mineral deposits and minds. they have had little say about mining on or near their ancestral lands. they have benefited little

and on the -- on the operational details as you know we don't routinely talk about many of the operations we conduct for good reason. >> but the legal process in the united states if someone is arrested, the government has to say where they're being held, you know, who arrested them, under what conditions. why is this different? >> you're perfectly willing to consult the justice department for -- for questions about the legal process. i'm not lawyer. what i'm telling you is speaking for the military. we're not going to get into the details of either the operation, or his location. >> is he under interrogation now u.s. military interrogation? >> i'm not going to speak to the legal process here. >> what were the details of the capture? was he captured -- when he was captured was it a -- was he taken into custody without any violence? i mean i'm not asking for details. i'm asking -- >> those are details. >> characterize the nature of the capture. >> look, i mean successful. obviously successful. and i'm just not going to get -- i'm not going to get into -- into a tic toc here. i just don't t

madam clerk, could you call the items related to the sfmta to your capital and operating budgets appeal. >> items 29 through 32 comprise the special order of 3:00 p.m. for public hearing of persons interested in the san francisco municipal transportation agency's determination that the sfmta fiscal year 2015 through 16 two-year operating and capital budget is statutorily exempt from the california environmental quality act. item 30 is the motion affirming the mta's determination. item 23 p1 is a motion reversing the determination by the sfmta. item 32 is a motion to direct the appropriation of findingsed in the reversal of the determination. ~ item 31 >> colleagues, before us we have the appeal of the environmental review exemption from the sfmta agency's fy 2015-2016 two-year capital budget. for this hearing we will consider the accuracy of the sfmta's determination that this project is statutorily exempt from environmental review. because this is a statutory exemption we were required not to look at whether the activity affectses in to the environment, as to categorical exemption, but

but you know guys these fairly well known cia coups and operations are anything. but seldom and in fact there are dozens of lesser known mindblowing plots extensively documented by historian william blum in his book killing hope cia interventions since world war two started in latin america where the cia launched operation condor in one nine hundred seventy five with the goal of propping up right wing military dictatorships across the region including in chile argentina uruguay bolivia brazil paraguay the list goes on the us joined forces with these countries to assassinate and disappear leftwing dissidents politicians and journalists including a car bombing that took place right here in the nation's capital and yes operation condor encompassed all the usual suspects and psychopath the included and then secretary of state henry kissinger all know at least sixty thousand deaths going to officially be attributed to the operation moving on to africa specifically the ones actually democratic republic of congo and one nine hundred sixty the congo elected its first demo

and a wireless controlled so we will be able to operate. and not only from the hours perspective but from a person perspective because the life of the led lamps is longer the enterprise customer and these are customers that range from the port, facilities like the shipping folks who to the cruise ship dock, where they come in and the floating otells basically and switch over from the marine power to the shore power. it is in their interest to make the investments themselves we funded the audit there at the airport, and then the airport took that information and sunk some additional money and time into the improvements implementing the measures, and so that is a good example of the type of enterprise customer program, implementation that we have seen. and then, finally, we have had a number of customer departments come to us and say, look, we are going to be making improvements on our facilities, and we know that you have the expertise on energy efficiency and we would like to pay you to lend that expertise to the facilities improvements and

enable what we call intelligence-driven rescission operations. -- precision operations. when directed by the president, the intelligence community provides him with additional options in between diplomacy and the overt use of military force. these are very important as well. and then, of course, our principal raison d'etre is preventing surprise, very challenging today as we look forward. i would add one other point as we look at this, and that is intelligence is a significant source of advantage for the united states today. and it's an advantage that is very important to us, but it's also one that has to be used aggressively but also prudently to make sure we're helping our leaders solve problems and not adding to their problems. and, of course, as you conduct operations, there's inherent risk in them. and so the risk gain is something that we look at all the time and continue to evolve. all right. now i'd like to talk about some investments we're making in capability areas to sustain this intelligence advantage well into the future. i've grouped this into five areas to

as you can imagine, our current operations are still highly classified. so those objects that we might into the collection would be highly classified as well. in our world, tangible are not considered to be official u.s. government records. they are notrefore part of that 25 or 50-year automatic declassification effort. if we want to try to tell the classified program through classified tangibles, then we have to make sure that are no agency equities that could be compromised by our telling that story. internal review holder.for the equity director of science and technology will have to agree that the technology can be put display. the information that we write about that must be reviewed by board.lication's review and then released by that 's review andrector release mechanism. a great deal of oversight and it's a good partnership that we have with various equity holders to make sure that we tell a accuratestory, an story in our museums all official visits to the central intelligence agency begin and in the memorial lobby in the only headquarters buildin

for example, mta operates nine fully staff, and newer has been able to operate with less staffing. the likely hood for mta higher cost, it has more vehicles than its piers. you can see that in this chart which shows the average numbers of vehicles and mid and weekday service. on a week day, mta operates between 3 and 14 times. the number of light rail operates nearly double than seattle. it makes since that mta cost are higher for these modes. when you have the operating cost as we have done with mid rail, there's a correlation between the two variables. this chart make it's clear that mta cost are in line the train established. the mta cost are higher, they do not seem to be unreasonably so. this is coverage throughout an agency service area. the chart make it's clear that mta stands far apart. this is out of necessity because many parts of the city would have charter fee. a high number of miles per square mile may indicate routing. in some cases that may be intentional such as lines that have lined on on or expressed -- >> continuing with the theme of acceptable and availability

noted quote cries terms are not a generate our of the port similar to the convention center they operate as lost leaders they bring people to the city but the city lose money hour very generate constitutional returned to the city and enhances the cities reputation as a world-class waterfront city and tourist designation as well as preserves and promotes one of hitting its maritime industries. as noted in the may 13 presentation the port must look for revenue opportunity and look at the cost side of the operations particularly the dredging costs port staff has tried to have a state of the art cries facility but that is which is financially responsible. port staff firmly buildings that the metro agreement will allow the recommendations to be set forth by advisory panel. therefore the port staff recommendations that the port commission approves in terms of described in the staff report with the caveat there's no resolution with respect to the b cdc permanent academy for its use as a part-time investor resource. the staff further recommendations that the port commission ports executive direc

do you know how many civilians have suffered during your operations if any. well i mean there was dreadful suffering going on by a very large number of civilians no question. with two and those who have both of them as quickly as possible but during an operations team throughout the region itself. do you know how many civilians i don't know if you really don't marriage so. how many civilians we months of killed accidentally all of them from the air yeah is that where you mean yes no and in fact one of the one of the things that executive outcomes is very proud of is that in both of those wars in angola and sierra leone there was never one single charge made against that had been any kind of atrocity. committed by us now that's actually a track record which i think most regular armies would be jealous of but so when you were talking to local people outside the operation did they treat you as liberators our enemies. they treat this is as liberators absolutely no in fact all morning kasia i was at he approached by the men all over town in sierra leone a place ca

and in addition to staffing, there were other operational inefficiencies that we identified, and the first round of the, aging ambulance fleet, they indicate that the use of a life span in san francisco for an ambulance is approximately 10 years, and it is given the city's topography and the medical call volume. failure to replace, these ambulances in a timely manner, results in a high number of ambulances that are called out of service for repairs, and this reduces further reduces the city's ability to meet at the 80 percent threshold, we have been told that typically there are eight ambulances that are taken out of the service on any given day for repairs. the city has approved since the fiscal year 2012, the replacement of 16 ambulances in the department. to date, none of those have been purchased. we recognize that the department move forward with those purchases urgently and i am mri the vehicle replacement plan of approximately 5 ambulances per year. we also identified some other areas for increasing system wide coordination of ems service delivery. specifically, given that the

mater's operation gladio has moved into ukraine according to u.s. intelligence reports coming up. the openly nazi base of kiev's new army. wiki leaks cables but the u.s. ambassador. and the quote cycle paths of cia special ops. prove once again that the united states of america is and will remain the greatest force for freedom the world has ever known a bomb hits a new high this month claiming the us with the main liberators against the nazis and s m b c reports that in reality world war two never ended well publicly that what tells demanded quote full details difficult to charge those responsible for the holocaust privately even as the war against fascism was still raging the white house was creating what it called bright lines to america for tens of thousands of nose these despite being classed as a menace to us security you want the man responsible for hiring cash cash the white house created new identities for nazi mass murderers like klaus welby and deleted the records of their crimes such as waterboarding the two chamba had manacles with the spikes facing in dangling chains

of the alliedge operation.the reason he was such a good pic is because of his political sensitivity. we think of a general in command as being a warrior, and of course, he must be that. the political sensitivity also made him not a bad president. it allowed him to command not just british and american forces on the same side, but it generally allied command. the significance of that is demonstrated by the fact that all three of his support and -- subordinate commanders, ground, air, and naval troops, were british. british and american troops on both sides. leigh mallory, e mallory -- leigh mallory commanded forces on both sides. and bertram ramsay was the naval commander about which meant that he commanded not just the naval ships on d-day and in the months after, but allied forces, including american forces. which means that two american rear admirals defending the forces on utah and omaha beaches reported to the british admiral as their commanding officer. the creation of this chain of command was one of the

an operating system.eople android is for who are more involved with the technology at this point. that might be good for them, and it might be bad for them. we will see. >> how many average users are more involved with their phon e? >> show me somebody who was 15 years old. >> true. androidyou get an phone, you get google maps, gmail, and google search. those are the market-leading products that each of those categories have. doingre particularly well on mobile e. it will be interesting to see overtime of the ecosystem that google got around that seamlessly transitions from your desk top to your pc. o far apple has maintained those market shares. when you get an android phone you sign in with your google account and everything is there. over the long term, i view that as one of the main things they will probably address. >> it is a very applelike experience in the add-ons. >> it is such a programming centric culture, i am surprised when they are good at a certain customer experience. it seems like a bypro

the overt operations are put under the office of war intelligent -- of war, and the covert operations are put in an office named covert strategic services. donovan is reaching out to people like you. he wants the best and the brightest in our country. military. into the he reaches into academic and private industry. if he has an operation that requires a document specialist, a forger or lock pick, you will reach into prison if you need that kind of talent. ♪ ♪ >> this pic sure you are about to see is the first cinematic study of the preparation, arrival, and establishment of permanent cover for secret agents. >> over the course of its 3.5 year history, maybe 25,000 men and women have passed through its ranks. at its peak, 13,000 men and women served. william was a british special operations executive major, who had been training the militia in shanghai. he taught hand-to-hand combat, and one of the people he caught was richard helms. richard helms, before the war, was a newspaper correspondent. he served in the navy as lieutenant commander. he had just returned from three weeks of tem

and as they say in the jargon they're operating under title 50 authorities.at's the training program that we are doing now of syrian opposition forces. it's a c.i.a.yú0.s program. it's run by c.i.a. paramilitary officers. some of them are yes, some of them are army and probably cs special forces.kthe idea -- >> rose: carrying out in jordan. >> it's in jordan. they don't go into syria. the idea that president obama is playing with, i think it's a good one is let's make this more overt. you have a client with a covert action written in the newspapers every other day is ridiculous. let's do it with the military. make a title 10 program. i think obama's got the support of the chairman of the joint chiefs, general marty dempsey which is a big change because he was against this sort of thing before. >> rose: now here's what's interesting. when david petraeus became c.i.a. director people assumed it will be more of a paramilitary role for the c.i.a. i'm asking you. when john brennan became the c it a director he basically said i don't think we ought to be doing that

we operated out of 13 offices. we were hawkerred in manhattan, and just my task force alone, not mentioning the entire country -- david threw a couple numbers out there 123,000 arrests -- we averaged 120 arrests a week just in this region alone, and that's violent predators, murderers, rapists, gun runners, the worst of the worst. so a few years back when most you've were watching snookie and jersey shore -- you're laughing -- we also did a reality show. we shot 60 episodes of "man hunters" and my boss at the time, mike, called me and said this is a great idea. we're federally funded. why not show the great work that the men and women do every day. weekends, holidays. it's perfect example of positive press that we need. in law enforcement, unfortunately, we're up against it with cameras rolling out there. so positive press was good. so we did. and what we set out to do we accomplished. it was a successful show. three seasons, and i thank mike for that. he was backing me in washington hundred%, with everything, so i

please join me in welcoming admiral michel, joint deputy for operations. [applause] >> good morning. what a beautiful morning to have our ceremony. i extend greetings from the coast guard. i want to recognize the members of the greatest generation, the veterans of midway and world war ii. today provides us the opportunity to reflect upon and honor your service, and especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. ofattending to the manners our profession, we show respect to you and honor those brave men and women who have gone before us in the glory of duty well performed. the coast guard laid a critical role in world war ii, including in the pacific. the coast guard's most important contribution was getting troops to the beaches, providing logistic support, maintaining backffensive, and bearing exhausted troops for rest and treatment. manneduardsmen fully more than 350 naval ships 21 cargo,76 lsp's, and attack cargo ships, 75 frigates, 31 transports, and other types of amphibious craft. they were valued for their boat handling skills, particularly in the