he took great space for the air force and then the royal canadian air force. anyways, it's absolutely fascinating. >> a-alpha, b-bravo, whatever, charlie. do you have a chart that was a u.s. version. >> the british version. >> in the german version. i thought the choice of names was really fun. sometimes they were the same like eating and keying. but the german ones -- >> the journals were on time, bruno, feature, doro. in fact, they even have a word that eludes me -- >> there is a thriller out called whiskey tango foxtrot. those are three of the code words in the british side of it. so there's a lot you can learn from this book that i found completely fascinating. i marked a couple of things. you've got all kinds of extra stuff in here like d-day movies in the d-day museum and the fact they didn't destroy the tapestry, even though they might well have because of the headquarters and so forth. the other thing i saved was your entry on john ford, which we've are talked about in which i love. he got a presidential medal of freedom. i was reading "the new york ti

and the chief of staff of the air force which by the way are outstanding members of the air force in their own right but also the ability to work with them as outstanding as well. i'm in a very fortunate position of having great partners out there in the senior air force leadership including the commanders. i also want to make sure that the equipment we have today is going to be recapitalized and modernized as we go forward. of all the things i just told you about how much we do on behalf of the air force and the nation it is only appropriate that we are premodern icing and re-capitalizing on par with the united states air force to do all of this. i will stand on the ground in testimony and anywhere else until you that's key because if i want those people to feel value-added and the handshakes at the airport or want them to feel the airplanes they are flying are safe and modern and they can do anything passed to them. it's very important when you're operating these types of equipment. sometimes at night, sometimes lights out, thousand miles across the ocean. you want to feel confiden

they get me going back to the air force expectations of the components expect the air national guardrd without fail, without hesitation day and and day out. you do not here much about that mission, but it is there. it there. it is always there. it is the life insurance policy, something that we do day in and day out. the other homeland operations missions that we support, 15 or 20 different varieties. .. >> >> but with the capabilities of equipment into that air men as well. not ro only kirby daschle guard but somehow the air national guard and sent to be calling out the eric lin to do the to put the one stay active duty if it gets to be a bigger problem or issue it has to be contained in the region have funding for the manpower also but he's even today with members of the southwest border to support those that are important to the governor. we believe we our first choice because of our capabilities. two weeks ago if you remember portsmouth was hit with devastating tornadoes. in the same treaty was hit in 2011. in the last 11 of the earvin put the family into the hallway but when the

same target, iran's air force, united states air force. so are -- it's complicated. the united states military now finds itself in the awkward position of fighting on the same side as iran and syria's assad regime. obama administration officials say they are not actively coordinating with iran on air strikes, which is maybe to say like the presidential candidates don't actively, you know, talk with their super pack maybe? not everybody in washington agrees iran's involvement is a very good thing. secretary of state john kerry says that any iranian military action against isis who be positive. >> nothing has changed in our fundamental policy of not coordinating our military activity or other activities at this moment with iranians. we're not doing that. and we are not -- not only not coordinating militarily right now but there are no plans at this time to coordinate militarily. i think it's self-evident that if iran is taking on isil in some particular place, and it's confined to taking on isil and it has an impact it's going to be a net effect as positive. >> secreta

the air force hates it for its fiscal survivability. the relic has survived every attempt by the pentagon to kill it because it has powerful backers in congress, especially from the state where many of the 40-year-old a-10s are based. >> the air force spent most of this year fighting congress to retire the a-10. why they weren't focused on other important issues, i don't know. >> reporter: the air force would argue the $4 billion cost of maintaining the a-10s is an important issue in these tight budget times but it's still a tiny fraction of overall bent gone spending. hecke spending. th --over all pentagon spending. $90million for the m 1 a 1 tank upgrade. $60million for alternative energy research. and $25 million for star base youth program. the money spent on nuclear weapons . dianne feinstein zeroed in on the cost of nukes arguing that it's unsustainable, and it could hundreds of millions of dollars a year. the so-called sequestration rules imposed by congress bars what the pentagon thinks would be common sense trade-offs. >> seque

continued in the air force after world war i. an airplane out of the campus, landed it right here at purdue. and he came waving a petition. it was at the board of trustees meeting. start an e should aeronautical program here at purdue. couple years, they did start in aeronautical gineering program as part of mechanical engineering. mechanical engineering has been of so many fields of engineering. it was one of a handful of aeronautical engineering ograms. george haskins eventually left force, kim to redo, and -- came p that program to purdue, and headed up that program, which was floundering. all the records say that he ght to rks day and ni build that program into one of the greatest programs in the country. when world war ii started, he was taken back to the military. but he had built something special here. war ii, rld aeronautical engineering was al arated from mechanic engineering, and became its own program, its own school. it is now one of the best in the country. george haskins lived a long life. ly, in 1969, he was in hi

cannon, uncle joe, commanding the 12th air force, and brigadier general gordon p. , 12th tactical command. the brass upstairs who run the air war. they said let's not hit them here. let's hit him here. let's isolate the battlefield. let's weaken the entire german front. by depriving it of supplies, fuel, food, ammunition, reinforcements. they call the plan operation strangle. this is what we want to do with airplanes. how? a lot of railroads in italy. this is the enemy. keep the trains from getting through. a lot of rivers in italy and over 700 major bridges. we figured if a train came to one and it wasn't there, it would be kind of tough to get across. medium bombers got many of the important ones, but bridges are long, narrow targets, difficult to hit and destroy. took a lot of trips, bombs, planes, men. we started to use a special weapon, a fighter bomber, the p-47 thunderbolt. one engine, one man. one bomb on each wing. extra fuel tanks for range. 6-5's crew chief taxi from the dispersal point to the end of the runway. light up the squadron. all the pilots have

he got assigned to wright-patterson air force base. about this time they start talking about the shuttle program. the shuttle program is going to bring an astronaut's who were not pilots. they were engineers and they were scientists in other fields. he had another chance. he was offered an opportunity to go to become a flight engineering training at edwards air force base, top place in the country. the place they're getting new astronauts from. he had made a promise to his commanding officer at wright patterson that he would stay there for when you. when they offered him the chance he had to turn it down. you know what happens when you turned on great opportunities, you don't often get offered again, but he did. he did get it offered again. he went to edwards air force base ended up graduating first in his class and he ended up a sign to the b-1 bomber which was being tested. he applied to nasa and guess what happened? he was rejected. when i get rejected from something i think, you know, i pout, i complain, i moan and groan. that's no

morning, that would be a little more than four hours ago, an indonesian hercules spotted what the air force described as suspected debris from an airplane. now, 11:30, a little over an hour and a half later, a second plane in the air spotting more debris. then about 12:15, another indonesian air force hercules in slightly different area but all within the same zone sector five which has been the focus of this particular search seen taking pictures of that image of what looks like a life jacket. so that tends to suggest this is a debris field. the weather conditions we are told over the area are bad at this time and getting low-flying choppers in there to at least try and identify what those objects are may prove difficult. we're still waiting at the moment we're still working our contacts here our local cnn correspondent has been speaking to the air force, he's working very hard. but we're getting information also from the acting general director of transportation who seems to be confirming these reports. in fact he's been talking to the media. it seems to be coalescing around the fact that

that's the air force. >> good to see it. >>> drivers getting a nice gift just in time for the christmas travel rush. joining us from our sister network fox business network sheryl castoni. some people are even seeing gas below $2 a gallon. >> i'll start with the good news first before i get to the troublesome news, and that's what we're seeing in the great state of texas. if you look at dallas right now, fuel city, here offering gallons of gasoline for $1.99. they're $2.40 on average for a gallon of gas. it's the energy sector, and it's about commerce, and things are good there. that's in dallas. there's a problem here, overall to your point. another selloff for the dow today. stocks trading down. unfortunately, a lot of these companies they pay taxes. they also contribute to the federal tax. those profits are going to be under pressure as oil stays in the range it's in right now. i have toll tell you, john, it's one of the most bearish calls i have seen from the publisher in the oil industry. he said he i

military has allowed air space to be shared with adversarially air forces. we're allowing air space to be shared with assad's air force in syria. this is unprecedented. this is not something that our u.s. military does. we own the air space. >> what they're saying is these iranian planes are doing this in support of iraqi forces. they are coordinating with our iraqi allies. is this just semantics because there's certainly indirect coordination. >> when we conduct air strikes we have somebody on the ground it is not basically the iranian air force, the bad guys are over there, let's go drop a bomb because i.s.i.s. is operating there. that's not the same as from the u.s. military prospect. >> ali kadari, a special assistant to five u.s. ambassadors to iraq, he has told that where the gloves have come off, in effect the leader of lebanon, syria, iraq and yemen in representation of his boss, iran's supreme leader. so is iran do you think calling the shots now in all these countries? >> well, sulimani has had the portfolio in iraq and syria and his major effort wh

the air force hates it for its fiscal responsibility. has powerful backers in congress especially from the state where many of the 40-year-old 810s are based. >> the air force spent most of this year fighting congress to retire the 810. why they weren't focused on other important issues, i don't know. >> reporter: the air force would argue the $4 billion cost of maintaining the a-10s is an important issue in these tigh tight-budget times, but it's still a tiny fraction of overall spending. they say government waste has compiled a list of dubious pork project items. for instance, the upgrade of the tank. $60million alternative energy research, and $25 million for the star base youth program. which teaches science and math to at-risk youth. but to maintain nuclear weapons the destructive capability of world war ii atom bombs dianne feinstein arguing that the reducing the arsenal could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year. but what is really bugging the pentagon now is that it can take some of the money for things it doesn't want and

cadet is instrumental in obtaining the first sexual assault convictions in over a decade at the air force academy, he's expelled. when a chief prosecutor is too good at his job and briefs members of congress, he's retaliated against and forced out. or when a survivor comes forward, she's put on a shelf. time is short, but there's more than enough time for us to, for congress to actually do its job. we shouldn't have more calls for just a little more time. the d.o.d. has failed on this issue for over 20 years now and the scandals of the last 12 months and the latest data shows that they still don't get it. as the "usa today" said -- quote -- "over the decades sexual scandals have spurred cycles of pentagon apologies, congressional hand wringing, half-baked attempts at action and nibble around the edges changes. isn't it time that men and women who serve their country so noblely have a justice sim that will serve them -- have a justice system that will serve them as victims of crime? i agree. our service members deserve no less. i ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the

the air force hates it for its fiscal survivability. the cold-war relic survived every attempt by the pentagon to kill it. it has powerful backers, especially from the state where many of the 40-year-old a 10s are based. >> the air force spent most of this year fighting congress to retire the a 10. why they weren't focussed on other important issues, i don't know. >> reporter: the air force argued the $4 billion cost in keeping the a 10s is important, but it's a fraction of pentagon spending. >> the advocacy group compiled a list of dubious projects and unwanted weapons in a pig book. among them upgrading the m1 abrahams tank, $60 million for alternative energy research, and biofuel costing $400 a gallon. and $24 million for the star base youth programme, teaching science, technology and maths to at risk use. it's penies come paired to $350 billion spent on nuclear weapons. to maintain 100 times the destructive capability of world war ii atom bombs. dianne fienstein zeroed in on the high price of nukes in an opinion piece in "the washin

air force got help today. reports from fairfield where the families say they'll now have a brighter holiday. >> reporter: at travis air force base where the mission of protecting the nation is on going, ♪ -- there was another important mission 20 days before christmas. >> yeah. -- >> reporter: airmen and women played santa's helpers for military families. >> i can just give to my siblings. >> reporter: the nonprofit operation home front sponsored this give away for 250 air force families during what can be a tough time of year. >> it's a lot of stress on our families. the military family member is deployed and gone away. this is just a nice way to say thank you for your service. >> i'm thankful that the operation home front offers this to military. it's nice relief to -- offset some of the costs nowadays. >> reporter: whether picking out a baby doll or a ninja play set, these families appreciate this as a great christmas bonus. in some cases this is a necessity. >> we're a single income family right now. any e

they organized 22 schools around chicopee, massachusetts near westover air force base, the major airthat supplied rhein-main, and they got a fire station, and they turned out 800 pounds every other day in cardboard boxes, big cardboard boxes, parachutes ready to drop. and i've got a documentation from chicopee that they had processed 18 tons through the seven months, first seven months. (gail halvorsen) this is a mail bag that is filled with goodies for operation little vittles. got some help from my buddies. they really made it possible to do all of the things we needed to do to keep the airlift going. (gail halvorsen) we figure we dropped over 20 tons. the estimate is 250,000 parachutes over west berlin. quit dropping around the airfield. we were afraid of kids getting hurt. so we dropped it at 1,500 and 2,000 feet as we'd come around the city. all over the city. plastered the city. the kids at east berlin wrote and they said, "hey, we can't help it where they put the border. "we're over here with these russians.. "i hope you're not mad at us, "but we're catching some of these thin

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so this was now a couple years later, maybe a year or two later and i'm at an air force conference call the corona conference, which the chiefs and the secretary have once or twice a year with all of the four stars in the united states air force. .nd we were having dinner this is at an airbase in florida. we were having dinner at this club, an officer's club, and we were all moving toward our cars, and i was getting on the bus. and the chief of staff of the air force, mike ryan, says jeh, i will give you a ride back to the lodging.to i'm thinking, ok, i'm thinking in my head, i'm a four-star equivalent, but he's the chief of staff of the air force, so that is like four and a quarter. [laughter] and at his car. so i will allow him to get into the right rear of the staff car. so i went around the car to the left-hand side, got in the back of the car on the left-hand side behind the driver. general ryan got into the driver seat. [laughter] i felt pretty silly. his executive saved me and got into the right front of the car. we set the pledge of allegiance here. i know the pledge of allegian

cannon, uncle joe, commanding the 12th air force, and brigadier general gordon p. l, 12th contactical command. the brass upstairs who run the air wall. they said let's not hit them here. let's hit him here. let's isolate the battlefield. let's weaken the entire german front. by depriving it of supplies, fuel, food, ammunition, re-enforcements. they call the plan operation strangle. this is what we want to do with airplanes. how? a lot of railroads in italy. this is the enemy. keep the trains from getting through. a lot of rivers in italy and over 700 major bridges. we figured if a train came to one and it wasn't there, it would be kind of tough to get across. medium bombers got many of the important ones, but bridges are long, narrow targets, difficult to hit and destroy. took a lot of trips, bombs, planes, men. we started to use a special weapon, a fighter bomber, the p-47 thunderbolt. one engine, one man. one bomb on each wing. extra fuel tanks for range. 6-5's crew chief taxi from the dispersion points at the end of the runway. light up the squadron. all the pilo

he went to edwards air force base.end up graduating -- end up graduating first in his class, eye signed to the b-1 bomber which was being tested. he applied to nasa, and guess what happened? he was rejected. when i get rejekylled for something i think, well, you know, i pout, i complain, i moan and groan. but that's not what jerry did. what jerry did is call the person in charge of picking astronauts. he cold called them and said, hey, my name's jerry ross, i applied for your program. i didn't get picked, what did i do wrong? and the man said, well, you know, you were pretty close. why don't you come down here and work for us and try again, and that's what he did. he went down there and went to work for nasa, tried a second time and was picked. he's one of only three people who served in the space program throughout the shuttle program. jerry ross, who lay on a haystack in the early 1950s before anyone had been into space ended up launching into space more times than any other human being. he's been launched seven time

today, my last ride on a -- on air force one. there is an office. we can spend the night on the plane. we haven anything else, a electrical power at our seats and television screens. 11, we used those screens to know what was happening on the ground. i have never been frightened on air force one. not in bad weather. not in trying circumstances. on september 11, we were the only airplane up there. most of the people have been dropped off. i think that, if i ever felt fear, it was the idea that the president could run and could not hide. i was not afraid for myself. i was worried about the country. >> which president traveled the most? >> gerald ford, although we only had 2.5 years, traveled more than any other president. he spent 250 days a year campaigning and enjoyed getting out. richard nixon had been sober clouseau. -- had been so reclusive. there was lack security back then. i was covering a banquet. i walked up to the president and said, this is the seventh saturday night in a row that the only guy i have been out with is you. >> what was the l

. >> if we had artillery and air force, we withdestroy them. >> reporter: even a top al qaeda jrm member,. >> so i think we still have a mission to continue. >> reporter: but that mission will be left to afghan forces but it won't be easy. that will be because al qaeda l forces have intermarried with afghans. >> jennifer glasse, al jazeera, caivel. >> palestinians, member of its monitoring unit in southern gaza. firefight started after a routine border patrol came under attack. now in serious condition. jordan has promised to do whatever it can to secure the release of its air force pilot from islamic state of iraq and the levant. the united states denies this claim that i.s.i.l. has shot down other plains. >> this plain came down outside the syrian city of raqqa. his officials are claiming the shooting down a sense of necessary sacrifice. >> the jordanian f-16s are part of the coalition with united states. central command issued this statement: the jordanians are highly respect he are pans. we strongly condemn action he of siefl. we will not tolerate i.s.i.l.'s attempts to misrepresent

because it has powerful backers from the state where the a-10s are based. >> the air force spent much of this year fighting the congress to retire the a-10. why they weren't focused on other important issues i don't know. >> the air force would argue the $4 billion cost of maintaining the a-10s is an important issue in these tight budget times but it's still a tiny fraction of overall pentagon spending. advocacy group citizens against government waste has compiled a list of dubious pork projects and unwanted weapons in what it has dubbed the pig book. among items $90 million to upgrade the m-1 a-1 abrams tank. energy research, algae biofuel that costs $400 a gallon and $20 billion for star based youth program which teaches science technology engineering and math to at risk children. california senator diane feinstein zeroed in on high price of nukes arguing the level of spending is unnecessary and unsustainable and reducing the arsenal could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year. what's really bugging the pentagon now is it can't take some of the money it doesn't want and spend

air force to baghdad . they were hiding give for safekeeping for future use. >> do we know who those people are? >> not sure but they were working with the powerful lebanese to be able to hold it in lebanon the way they were. move $2s it possible to billion and $100 bills from iraq to lebanon and not have someone not even an american official know about? >> that is the question -- did they know about it? it would take some infrastructure to do that. some logistics and we do not know how they did it. did it or or not -- not. it is one of the questions that apart from bowen, no one in the u.s. government or iraq government seems to be interested in getting to the bottom of. stuart, i detailed how he went to the f ei and cia and other agencies and no one was interested in helping him find the money. >> do have any idea why? >> not really. part of the problem was it was iraqi government money. it was the development fund for iraq, which was created after the u.s. invasion to hold large revenuesf iraqi oil that

there he is, one of the air force psychologists who the senate says had no experience in interrogations whatsoever but the cia nevertheless tapped him to essentially come up with torture techniques for its interrogations. the ap had an interview with him today, reuters, vice news, the penny saver, your local church bulletin, everybody got an exclusive today with this guy. but yeah, there he is, unavoidable for comment. living off the millions of dollar, the tens of million of dollars the taxpayers paid him for services developing this program and he's all over the media today take making the case that when you're waterboarding people it's an interrogation tool. why would you deny yourself a useful tool? the issue of whether or not torturing people on purpose is the policy of the u.s. government is not a question that was settled in the past. it's still an open question. i mean, the people who executed the policy, who came up with the details of how to do it are still free, have apparently been

he landed at andrews air force base a little while ago. he's going on now to try to recover the health that was so badly damaged by five years in cuban prison. but there's a much bigger story here, which is a loosening of decades-long restrictions. cubans are still finding out about this basically from u.s. media that's here. they don't have easy access to the internet or regular access to channels like cnn. and raul castro is due to address the nation here any moment now. the cubans still haven't been told by the official state media that this very important change is taking place. they have to let this change sink in, something most people here never thought was going to happen, which is the u.s. if not lifting the embargo, finally loosening some important restrictions that have kept these two countries divided for so long, wolf. >> the president of cuba, raul castro, i take it he's about to make a statement on television to the cuban people, the president of the united states, president obama, he's about to make a statement. only moment

iraq's defense backed by the shia popular forces and under air cover provided by iraqi and internationalisil fighters have continued their attacks and say they are anti- -- their anti air tack capabilities have forced opposition jets to leave. up north, the situation is tension as kurdish peshmerga forces advance deeper into the sinjar mountains. fighting has intensified southwest of kir. back in salidhin. they have ligamentous to cut ice ill supply lines on the forms. they want to retake more areas north of samarra city. as the fighting continues, more iraqi civilians become victims and more houses become vacant. al jazeera. leaders of chili's largest indigenous group vowed to step up their effort to take back their land. the territory is disputed and belongs to private companies. lucille newman reports. ♪ >> reporter: outside a courtroom in baldivia the indid you know nus embrace mayor machi, a political, spiritual and religious authority in their community. minutes earlier, a judge had sentenced milia to a 61 day suspended sentenced, far less than the year she had spent in prison awai

the idea has been reportedly tested at edwards air force base.r zone, bright white fuel trucks could be easier targets, but they say they could keep them green but just cover them with heat reflective coating. they're just brainstorming. i've not ever heard of a temperature limit on fuel. doesn't mean there isn't one. i've asked lockheed about it and they will get back to me. over to you. >> thank you very much. the senate has released the executive summary of a report today on the cia's interrogation program for suspected terrorists. it is potentially an explosive document that has u.s. embassies on alert. so should the senate release the entire cia report? to cnbc.com/ and let you know what you think. while you do that, eamon javers reports on the latest involving the report. >> as you say, it e's 525 pages released today, a report put together by the senate intelligence committee. it has a explosive new revelations regarding the cia post-9/11 interrogation program for detainees. among those revelations that the cia is -- senate intelligence co

has blamed the flareup on the number liberians traveling in and out of the country. >>> cameroon's air force has launched air strikes for first time against nigerian based boko haram. five separate villages and the military in northern tip of cameroon. explaining some of boko haram's recent movements. >> the latest attacks may be attempts by boko haram the try and infiltrate nigeria's neighbors as well cameroon, niger and chad. several attacks to seize and control some areas inside cameroon. it could also be a take back for cameroon's participation in the fight against boko haram in neercht nigeria. cameroon has contributed significantly in the international effort to dislodge boko haram in that part of the country, neercht nigeria. probably these attacks may be like a retaliation for cameroon's participation. perhaps boko haram is overly ambitious, perhaps countries like niger and cameroon. attacking the base of boko haram into cameroon this is not certain because up until now the nigerian thrortsauthorities havenigerian thorts authorities have not dislodged boko haram. activity participate

you were at andrews air force base, on air force one, watching the speech.an you talk a little bit about your experience at that time? the resignation speech, we were in the west wing. i was getting ready to go home, and one secret service agent in and said that the to be swept oing a few esident ford in hours, but for the time being it was a free zone, and if i in, i could. so, i went in, and i was alone in the oval office, and sat in his chair. couple went home for a of hours. andrews d to be out at by 8:00. the only people who could go on the helicopter, which of course, we have right up here were the brary, and the doctor who traveled with every president on every trip. so, the people who would be on air force one, had to be at andrews. so, we watch the speech on the air force one. on i had a curious out of body experience. after the speech finish, we all sitting there, kind oof half watching the i'm -speech commentary, and my ching it, and in peripheral vision, they show going down -- helicopter his coming down. at 10:17. took off what is a picture of w

the military launched the offensive, backed by the shia forces and under air cover provided by iraqi and international forces. the anti-aircraft have forced coalition jets to leave. up north the situation is tense, kurdish forces advance deeper. fighting intensified south-west of kirkuk. >> iraqi forces managed to cut supply lines, and they want to retake more areas. as the fighting continues, more iraqi civilians become victims and houses vacant. >> back at home the new york city police commissioner is giving support to bill de blasio. he criticized cops for turning his backs on the mayor when he spoke at officer rafael ramos's funeral service. rafael ramos and his partner were killed in a shooting last week. the police commissioner spoke out on "meet the nation." . >> i don't support that action that funeral was held to honour officer rafael ramos, it is reflective of the feelings of some of our officers that at this juncture. not just about the mayor, but the issues that are afflicting the city at this time. the commissioner noted that despite the shooting of officer rafael ramos a

meantime elian was driven to a helicopter pad less than five minutes away and flown to homestead air force base. within an hour of being seized the 6-year-old boy was on board a government plane headed for andrus air force base where elian's father was waiting. >> the federal courts had ruled it was elian's father who should decide the boy's future. and as we reported in june 2000, that cleared the way for elian gonzalez to return to cuba. >>> the long and contentious legal battle ended today in washington, d.c. when the supreme court rejected a last ditch appeal by elian's u.s. relatives to keep him in the u.s. following the high court ruling,elian gonzalez wasted no time. before they left juan miguel had something to say. >> i believe i know that this country is very elegant and beautiful, and i hope in the future that my country and the united states can be different. and i wish that i could be here under different circumstances. >> in florida where the cuban american community had waged a vigorous fight to keep elian from returning to his homeland there was an outpouring of emotion. ou

the air force completes a 13-i can't remember mission. a smaller -- 13-year mission, a smaller force will take its place. n.a.t.o. and afghanistan worked together to protect the afghan people and community from extremism. since 2001 they have created an atmosphere fostering progress. >> females in school. people in schools... >> reporter: he cautioned that there are challenges ahead. >> afghanistan has been the longest war for the gates and n.a.t.o. even though the ceremony is the end of n.a.t.o.'s combat mission, the fighting is not over. >> it is in the hands of afghan security force, and has been the worse year ever. many have been killed. casualties are high because the afghan troops don't have the nato support they used to. >> we have everything. we are limbited. we have a lot of challenges pt pt -- challenges. the biggest is the airport. we have enough to work on it. >> reporter: the latest allowed al qaeda to re-establish training bases. the taliban has taken control of large parts of the country side in many provinces. >> an insurg

now, they were trained to help air force members that were captured to resist torture. way you do that is help people imagine a future in which the torture is going to end. with the subjects that the cia was enter gagt, th was interrogating was to do the exact opposite. not only were they being tortured, but torture was now a permanent state for them, to basically, you know, take away their future. >> why would anyone think this was a useful technique for extracting information? don't you teach the subject, whether a dog or detainee, their impact will have nothing on their misery. you think you would want someone who has nfrgs, you believe giving up the information would be good for them, maybe get them out of their miserable condition. this sounds like it's something that's intended to break someone, even maybe them less useful as a source of information. >> the evidence suggests that the subjects that went through this treatment, they did become compliant. they did begin to accept their fate as permanent. there is no evidence, actually, they did provide any more usefu

making it a main target for the air forces of president bashar al-assad. a is close to a government-controlled air base from, there, assad's air units can attack ale of the city and much of the wider area of dei az says zor province. in the countryside are oil fields. control of them has been fought over by all sides since the start of the civil war in 2011. last year, the al-nusra front was active here. but more recently. their influence has waned. in june, the free syrian army sent a convoy of its men through the streets of the city as a show of force. but now it's isil that is fighting for ascendancy. one of their main targets is the ammunition depot which supposedly contains a large number of heavy weapons and government soldiers. on thursday, isil up loaded pictures to social media from the nearby village. in the video their fighters humiliate a captured syrian government sole germ the man is taunted and asked where is bashar to help you? if the government forces were to lose their air base, and arms depot in the area, it would be a serious blow. which

he left the air force, came to purdue, and headed up the program. all of the records say that he worked day and night to build the programs into one of the greatest in the country. when world war ii started he went back into the military and never returned to purdue. however, he had started something special. after world war ii aeronautical was separated from mechanical and became its own school. it is now one of the best in the country. george haskett lived a long life. in july of 1969 he was retired in pasadena, california and 1890's a man born in the , before flight, who was a world walk pilot, watched a man on the moon. neil armstrong who went through the program he created at purdue university. man. is one small step for one giant leap for mankind. >> people like billy mitchell thegeorge haskins realized role that air travel would play in warfare and travel. as we go on a continues with purdue graduates. by 1924 a purdue graduate named frederick martin from indiana was the most experienced pilot in the air force. he headed up a group of four pl

. >>> the falcons of air force and western michigan in famous history potato bowl.1", 245 pounds has some speed. 1 other 1 yards two tds, air force wins 38-24. >> we should rename the new orleans bowl the louisiana lafayette bowl. ragin cajuns playing. first and only touch of the game against nevada. james butler, the one-handed grab. win for the cajuns, 16-3 over the wolf page. >> division 3 state championship, high school. the drive for the win, but row matto recovers the fumble, takes it 85 yards. 35-28 campo lindo. then, tiger, don't call me woods garcia,. he forced the fumble for the touchdown. could goers d-3 champions, 35-28. a perfect 16-0 season. >> gates on with stanford. bead uconn early in the season but since then four wins and four losses. tennessee the latest opponent to take it to the cardinal. the the lady vols undefeated at home. they were in command from the opening tip. massinggil hits. harrison scores then graves scores, stanford shoots 25% in a 59-40 loss in knoxville. >>> maybe they could beat the 76ers. maybe the knicks. johnson top-ranked ke

he continued in the air force after world war i. he was stationed in dayton. in 1919 he flew an airplane on the purdue campus. landed it right here at purdue. and he came with a petition. waving a petition. it was when the board of trustees was meeting. it was june. he said i want you to start an aeronautical program at purdue. an aeronautical engineer program. within a couple of years, they started an aeronautical engineering program as part of mechanical engineering. mechanical engineering has been the root of many different fields of engineering. it was one of the first in the country. it was not the first, but it was one of a handful of aeronautical engineering programs. george haskins eventually left the air force, came to purdue, and headed up the program. which was floundering. it had a new person every year. it was not doing well. and so he headed it up. all of the records say that he worked day and night to build that program into one of the greatest programs in the country. when world war ii started he was taken back into the military. he never retur

. >>> the falcons of air force and western michigan in famous history potato bowl. the 5'11", 245 pounds has some speed. 1 other 1 yards two tds, air force wins 38-24. >> we should rename the new orleans bowl the louisiana lafayette bowl. ragin cajuns playing. first and only touch of the game against nevada. james butler, the one-handed grab. win for the cajuns, 16-3 over the wolf page. >> division 3 state championship, high school. the drive for the win, but row matto recovers the fumble, takes it 85 yards. 35-28 campo lindo. then, tiger, don't call me woods garcia,. he forced the fumble for the touchdown. could goers d-3 champions, 35-28. a perfect 16-0 season. >> gates on with stanford. bead uconn early in the season but since then four wins and four losses. tennessee the latest opponent to take it to the cardinal. the the lady vols undefeated at home. they were in command from the opening tip. massinggil hits. harrison scores then graves scores, stanford shoots 25% in a 59-40 loss in knoxville. >>> maybe they could beat the 76ers. maybe the knicks. johnson top-r

barksdale air force base, fort polk one of the greatest training centers anywhere in the world and bell it is chase right here in this region. have made them stronger. we have built them better. and they are flourishing because of our commitment. [applause] >> the work that many of us have orphans in america, all over the world, strengthening the foster care system and every childly that deserves a a forrier family and a place -- forever family and a place to call home. together we have also fought a over yett and it is no for healthcare because -- [applause] >> to have a strong work force, have a strong workforce to lift our state and move it forward and to lift our nation forward we have to have a healthy workforce. we have to have a way for people no matter where they work or how they work to be able to have an nurses, tooctors, to people that can keep them healthy. they can have security when they knowing their children can have access and if they get stricken with cancer or disease or diabetes they can't be thrown off the insurance rolls anymore. be proudomething to of. and i'm gla

remains to dover air force base. three family members were there to receive his body. and terrorists kidnapped him more than a year ago. >>> delaware's largest city is in the national spotlight. but wilmington leaders, they're not happy about it. a "newsweek" article labeled wilmington murder town usa just as the city tied it's all-time homicide record at 27 this year. last night, nbc10 spoke with mourners at the candlelight vigil of a scene of a recent killing. >> who can say the use of death? there's no use to death. i witnessed so many people underground. >> i realize this may be a controversial story within wilmington. but it's also a really important story that deserves national spotting light. >> wilmington's mayor called the article a misrepresentation of the city. >>> philadelphia is making plans to renovate love park. now it's a matter of deciding what it should look like. last night, philadelphians shared their ideas. parks and recreation officials have not provided a timetable for when this makeover will b