air force.e really andnded out the air force bought equipment like you've never seen before. congratulations. thank. beautiful job. [applause] otherant to thank three truly remarkable former cadets, your superintendent, lieutenant class ofy silvaria, 1985, i thought you were a little younger than that. goldstein, class of 1983. thank you general. great job. a great job respected by everybody. generalcom commander, o'shaughnessy, class of 1986. thank you. thank you. [applause] thank you general. we are also grateful to be joinedul to be joined by commander of u.s. strategic command,enheighten. thank you. we spent a lot of time together talking about things. and commander of air force, space command, general jay raymond. thank you. space command. and to all of the distinguished faculty, coaches, and staff, thank you for forging and refining a new generation of american warriors. we are also joined by many distinguished air force veterans and academy graduates. we applaud and salute you all. thank

air force. you could have chosen any school, but you chose a harder path, and a higher calling, to protect and defend the united states of america. i know what you have been through. and it's tougher. but in the end it's better. you will see. you will see. you will see. today, you take your places, officers in the most powerful air force in the history of our country, and frankly, easily, in the history of the world. [applause] america commends the integrity, devotion and commitment of the class of >> strong! 2019. president trump: when you choose the air force, you choose noble duty and devotion. you choose to break boundaries, unlock new frontiers, and live life on the cutting edge. the first air combat happened one century ago. you are the ones who will invent and define the next generation of air warfare and you are the ones who will secure american victory to dominate the future. america must rule the skies. [applause] that is what your time at this grade academy has been all about. prepari

ago, we were 4000 maintainers short in the united states air force. r active duty is not short of maintainers anymore. pilot shortage, spare parts, we are starting to turn the corner on logistics, training hours, all those things matter for a ready force. ms. starr: is it correct b-52s at the have moment, and notb-1s? sec. wilson: i don't talk about things are and what readiness levels are in general. ms. starr: okay. the air force made a public announcement, the level of readiness and availability that you want. 5, we focus: thatf-3 on the operational squadrons when we assess readiness, not the proprietary aircraft, by the f-35 is a game changer of an aircraft. his supercomputer wrapped in a stealthy aircraft. when we take it out and do exercises, the kill ratio is 20:1. starr: let us shift to the southwest border of the united states, that is another call, if you will, upon u.s. military forces. acting secretary shanahan was , and this weekend publicly, there have been public indications which is that the u.s. military will stay on the border until t

air force base in spanish. we train our partners and allies. you talk about high-tech, we have now opened our space programs. we now have a combined space operations center. we opened our space training programs. space 100 taught in the united states is taught to 20 allies with allied officers engaged and involved, and we are putting our centers on allied spacecraft. we have a center that is going up aboard a norwegian satellite and are working on the same with japan. so even in areas of technology, we are deepening our partnerships, because good ideas are not just coming from the united states. ms. starr: secretary esper, your thoughts? sec. esper: i share secretary wilson's views. we will incorporate export ability into our future. we mentioned the training part, we train hundreds of pilots every year or no aircraft, on our fight systems. we train soldiers throughout our school system, from west point all the way to the war college we have foreign students. we think it is valuable to have those programs. but

air force base in spanish. so we train our partners and allies. >> but i'm asking-- >> in space, you talk about high-tech. we've now-- we've opened our space programs and we now have a combined space operation center and we opened our space training programs. space 100 now here in the united states has talked to 20 allies with allied officers engaged and involved. and we're putting our allies on allied spacecraft. so weave-- we have a center going up aboard a norwegian satellite and japan. and we're deepening our partnerships because good ideas are not just coming from the united states. >> secretary esper, your thoughts? >> i share secretary wilson's views. again, as we think about the future and what we acquire or what we build, we're going to export into that as well. and then as we mention the training, we train hundreds of pilots on our aircraft, on our fighting systems. we train soldiers throughout our school system from west point all the way through the war college, we have foreign students and we think

he was assigned to the mission just 72 hours earlier, and his job was critical: to guide air force planes on bombing or strafing runs against enemy positions. it's a battlefield tactic called close-air support. what the green berets didn't know was that their new air controller had been demoted and kicked out of an air force special operations unit for poor performance. did you know this guy at all? did you know anything about him? >> anderson: at the time, we didn't know anything. we... he showed up a couple days before the mission, so he was getting caught up on everything our previous air force controller had planned out. >> whitaker: half a mile away from anderson's group was army medic brandon branch and two green beret weapons sergeants: jason mcdonald, at 28, a veteran army ranger, and 24-year-old scott studenmund, the grandson of a u.s. senator who continued a family tradition of service by becoming a green beret. >> branch: once we got down in this area, there was like a small ditch that actually kind of ran down through here. >> whitaker: just before 8:00 in the evening, suddenl

he was a father, a husband and and are forced -- and an air force medic. he was from north carolina. on april 4, 1975, he was looking after hundreds of orphans from saigon. the president of the united states, gerald ford, had ordered the air force to rescue 2000 orphans before the north vietnamese approached the capital of the republic of vietnam. while master sergeant johnson was carrying for them, -- caring for them, his c5 crashed. 78 children perished that day, 50 members of the united states air force perished with them. a father and a friend was lost, but his life was a testament to the spirit of america we see here today. i was honored to visit that wall 44 years after the event with sergeant johnson's daughter. when america was asleep in the 1970's, something stirred in the thousands of people here. the shameful treatment of our warriors went against everything that was taught by the man who is looking down on us today. in his second inaugural address when he prayed to end the scourge of war, he said with malice toward none and charity for all, let

we make sure they're ready and in the case of the air force, our job very often power projection there at any moment force and little over 60 hours between when we get calls of some forces forward and b-52's are on the ramp in the middle east, any time, anywhere ready to go. >> let me ask you, if i'm correct and please correct me if i'm wrong, the b1's are currently grounded, i think, pretty much down to b52's right? you managed what's going on? >> one of the things that's been tremendously helpful over the last several years, we have the same thing with the air force and also the navy, our job won when we came on board, secretary mattis, restore the readiness for any fight any time. and we've seen the cause of increase in support and budgets from the congress and the request in the president's budget, so last few years you've seen significant improvement and for us that's first and foremost about people, 2 years ago we were 4,000 short in united states air force and we have now closed the gap, active duty is not and starting to turn the corner on pilot shortage, spare parts, logistics

also efficient because it capitalizes on the supporting infrastructure and other capabilities the air force already has and provides for the spac space force today. when it comes to capitalizing on commercial investment it will consolidate, all of the activities into one organization. today we have the space and missile center in los angeles that has a large scale asset for the nation, primarily from military perspective, we established the space roughly capabilities office, the fill holes in the need to protect the capabilities and the department recently created the space develop agency to specifically focus on a levers capability. those organizations need to work together, they can work together in the current structure today the spaceport would help them. >> a space for unifying the command will elevate the focus on the theater and elevate the resources, leadership, the focus on defending what is likely to be one of if not the most contestant going for. >> effect i may also, the fact that the president has created a us-based command helps. >> final question, as you know space policy dir

i went to georgia air force base in victorville, california. and there i was an assistant operations officer, instrument instructor pilot and task pilot. i'll have to say i did not have any problems during my whole dured cull rear in the military as far as being a minority, none whatsoever. even the guys that were in the squadron in japan, we were very good. we were better than they were. i think the reason why we were so good as a group is because of our training. everything we did, the instructor did was trying to wash us out and it just made us better pilots. like i said everything had to be perfect. we were good. we were the best. we proved it overseas that we were the best and then we came back to the states. we had the weapons made in '49. we won that, and we proved we were the best there. so i like to use the word best -- i don't know if you noticed that. >> what year did you retire, sir? >> i retired in madison, wisconsin, in may of 1949. now, before i retired i'd had a family to support. so before i retired i started looking for a job.

she is the first graduate of the air force academy to become secretary of the air force. the president of the united states in just a few seconds. keep watching. >> dana: fox news alert from colorado springs, president trump about to give the graduation speech to the air force academy. hello, everyone. i'm dana perino and this is "the daily briefing." and earlier today, president trump unloading on robert mueller after his statement on the russia investigation. his strong words coming amid the growing democratic push for his impeachment. john roberts is live on the north lawn with more. john, before the president speaks, what do you have there at the north lawn? >> reporter: well, we saw the president leave for the air force academy in colorado springs earlier today and really unload on the special counsel, at least the former special counsel, robert mueller. it's because when mueller came out and made his statement, he really raised the political stakes of what lies ahead, forcing the president to come out hard against him. the president, a he was leaving, repeated the m

nearly $5 billion in emergency fund to rebuild air force spaces in florida and nebraska, alone that was damagea by natural disasters, so i think it's very important that the air force and military services continue to incorporate climate change in the planning so when disaster strikes impact is minimal. this clearly is already an issue so thank you for your work onthr that. >> t'john. >> i think that's absolutelyy right. secretary wilson was characterizing correctly. so how do you make sure that the impacts are minimized, the air force has a very smart strategy when a hurricane is coming, they fly their planes out, unfortunately during recent events when hurricane struck, they could only fly 60% of, if-22's were in condition to fly and so they had to store the other 40% in hangers and most of them were damaged and so that's a challenge that they will run into and think about how they can for future events minimize damage for infrastructure. >> bipartisan legislation to protecting military basis, senators schaff and miran, what would other legislations would do? >> it would tell the

. >> my dad was in the air force. my brother was in the air force. joined the air force. >> he graduated from officer training school and went to work at david grant hospital on travis air force base and fearful. >> i was trained to do something different. i was trained to go where the military needed me. >> in january 2010 the air force needed francisco in afghanistan even though his wife was pregnant with their ic st child. in >> i was touted as one of the best nurses there. >> working in a war zone took a toll on francisco. >> what you see in afghanistan, i do not think anyone could ever prepare you for what you see or do. >> after almost a year, he came home for more. he met his son for the first time. he should have been happy. instead, he was struggling. >> it was amazing to see things alive and green. it is amazing to see life. >> francisco tried to go back to his nursing job on travis air force base but was constantly distracted by flashbacks from his deployment. >> i could be a potential danger to these patients because i am not thinking as

the air force is an armed service. it is not a regulatory agency, so i would say that we will do this job as long as the nation and the world requires, but it is probably best suited for civil and other organizations in that regard. >> does anyone disagree or have a differing perspective? >> i will tell you, senator cruz, in the house of representatives, i took a position that the faa, office of commercial space transportation should have that role. i now see it quite differently. i think the office of the secretary of commerce should have that role, and i say that because what we are trying to do is develop commerce in space. that's what we're trying to achieve here. and i think that if an agency that is responsible for developing commerce is also responsible for developing the rules by which people operate in space, i think ultimately it will put us in a much better position in the future. i will also say that under all circumstances, it should not be the department of defense that does space situational awareness an

army air forces. it details the planning, training, combat operations and summaries of the -- after-battle summaries. with an emphasis on more than 500 gliders that were dropped behind enemy lines on the morning of june 6. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the isture we are about to see as important [inaudible] it rapidly details the use of gliders in normandy, gliders which you have to manufacture. you will not soon forget this picture. to may even be able recognize gliders which you built with your own hands. i think you will swell with them, thewithout invasion of german held territory could not have been as successful as it was. i want you to know that we share this pride with you. done, the job is not yet we still make gliders of every description, such as only you can make. in the past, you worked very , but now you must work even harder. [indiscernible] we need to speed victory. thank you. ♪ >> this is the story of the operation which began the assault on the continent of europe. willarrier command tr

from tuskegee as a second lieutenant, we were sent to selfridge air force base. the three sections, the three squadrons were first, the second, and the 99th. these squadrons of blacks were flying p 39 up and down the shores outside of italy. my class, we were supposed to be replacements for them. we were trained in p 39's at selfridge air force base until something like march of something like march 1944 or 45, 44, i had a two star general come to selfridge. i'm out over lake huron. the report to the post theater on the double which means job everything you are doing and get behind the theater. we were there. blacks with white officers trying to find out what the is going on. nobody knows. all of a sudden somebody said-- and we popped down the aisle is a two star general. they look and say what the is going on there? i don't know. he rambled on and on for about four or five or 10 minutes and, these are the words that i remember. quote. gentlemen, this is my airfield. as long as i'm in command there will be no socialization between white and colored officers. we'v

we have the best air force in the world. and soldiers on the ground, the air force is back in. they cannot range us. you want to get outside the adversaries and an airland battle will develop in operations for the army to the air force by suppressing great ranges. it gives the air force more freedom to clear the skies and open up for other things. >> go to cyber disinformation. the russians have a very clever terrain and almost everything the russians have been doing have been direct, chinese doing the same thing. if you exchange fire the nation mobilizes and can undermine society very effectively. oftentimes our senior leaders are chosen for combat prowess. not necessarily savvy in either of those domains which could be more important than the kinetic space. how do we train the generation leaders that don't put cyber or disinformation as informational warfare as people on my staff do. with the marine corps commandant sink we've been at cyber war for the past decade. how do we train this generation of leaders, countering them as they are? >> i'm not sure i agree that just becau

air force academy. democratic leadership and 2020 candidates face new calls to impeach the president. this is "outnumbered." i'm melissa francis. here today, dagen mcdowell. lisa boothe, radio host and fox news contributor, leslie marshall and joining us on the couch, vice president of the mercury public affairs, ian prior. thanks for being here. >> nice to be here. >> ready to be outnumbered? i like it. air force one touching down in colorado ahead of a speech to the u.s. air force academy. before leaving the white house, president trump responding to robert mueller's rare public appearance yesterday. watch. >> to me, it's the same as the report. there's no obstruction. you can see what we're saying. there's no obstruction, no collusion, no nothing. it's nothing but a witch hunt. this is a witch hunt by the media and the democrats. they're partners. >> [question inaudible] >> that means you're innocent. excuse me. he should have said you're guilty. >> the former special counsel's remarks fuelling impea

that seemed contradictory to what the air force said that it needs. are you concerned that allocating funds to fourth generation fighters, the f-15ex 's will prevent the air force from buying a sufficient nothing number of f-35a's neat to get to 50% fifth generation fleet in time. -- in time to meet the threats from russia and china? >> great question senator. and this is an issue i looked at pretty hard. there were a number of variables that went into those decisions. so i'll walk you through those and answer your question about the f-35 ramp specifically. first, how much money we're going to spend in tactical aviation. second, how many platforms we needed to have. capacity of the total fleet. third was how much ordinance of what type we had to carry. and then, the f-15c, which was not going to make it past the mid-2020's, and in our competitive area of study, so this was a joint study. this wasn't a programmatic decision. this supported the air force's decision we looked at a mix of 4 th and 5th generation of aircraft from 2025-2035, to be the right

the air force fights from their bases. how do you make sure the impacts are minimized? the air force has a very smart strategy when a hurricane is coming. they fly their planes out. unfortunately, during the recent events at tindale airforce base when the hurricane struck they could only fly 60% of the f-22s in condition to fly so they had to store the other 40% in hangers and most were damaged. so that is a challenge they're going to run into and think about how they can for future events minimize the damage to expensive assets and infrastructure. >> there is bipartisan legislation to deal with protecting military bases. it's the readiness act. what will this legislation do? >> so the readiness act was recently introduced. it would tell the military base by base to assess their vulnerability to climate change and come up with ways to mitigate that vulnerability holistically. but every base is different. there is not one problem and one answer. every base has a different elevation, different vulnerability to flooding, different proximity to the coast or rivers. differen

air force academy ceremony.e the commencement speech moments from now outside colorado springs where he's expected to step up to the lectern. it comes during national military appreciation month, which is about to wrap up and honors current and former military. our next guest founded a nonprofit called soldiers strong, which helps fund cutting edge technology including an exoskeleton, which gives paralyzed veterans the opportunity to stand on their own again. chris meek, welcome. good to have you here. this is so important. you know we're saving more lives from the battlefield. but they come back with his catastrophic injuries. you're trying to make life better for them. >> we are. to your point, they come back with these injuries. we give our warriors the best technology on the battled field. when they come home, there's a gap between what the department of defense gives them and what the v.a. gives them at home. what we're trying to do is help them take steps forward. >> i have the v.a. secretary on last week,

. >> last fall hurricane michael struck kendall air force base in the panhandle of florida. and incredibly strong hurricane. and essentiallyy flattened the base that is an overstatement but they are coming back online now. the base was taken off line they throughout as much aircraft as they could in advance. but those that could not were damaged for the point is that that kind of a storm that we see more and more of the storms with more impacts, that has implications like camp lejeune in north carolina had damage from hurricane florence that was another $3 billion worth of damage and record floods over the missouri river just recently off the air force base and that did another billion dollars worth of damage. >>host: what does it take to get back up and running? remix hard to say they are runningpletely up and kendall air force base they said most of the missions are backe, except the binary aircraft mission i think camp lejeune three.$5 billion worth of damage so they had operations going on already but they will need that money. >> and now for active military what about t

army air forces. the film details the planning, training, combat operations, and after-battle summaries of the airborne forces. with an emphasis on more than 500 gliders that were dropped behind enemy lines on the morning of june 6th. ♪ >>> ladies and gentlemen, the picture you are about to see is as important a film document as was ever made by the armed forces. in graphic detail it reveals the use of gliders in the invasion of normandy. you will not soon forget this picture. you may be able to recognize gliders which you built with your own hands. i think you will swell with pride when you see how well they performed. without them the invasion of the german-held territory could not have been the success it was. you will be filled with justifiable pride and speaking for the air technical service command and the entire air -- army air force, i want you to know that we share this pride with you. but the job is not yet done. we still need gliders of every description, gliders such as only you can make.

would you say that in big army as well as the joint air force what needs to be done or what is going on to acculturated folks to the fact that we don't have air superiority? >> over the last 15 or so years air threats were not something we worried about with the exception of artillery mortars. in future fights, those things that we used to do very routinely, the dispersion, the discipline that you talked about, are things that we need to relearn not just in the defense community but passive defense is a requirement for the whole force. we are starting to reinvigorate those procedures at the national training center. we are bringing air threats back and pitting-- putting back at the training centers. as we have the ability to do so we are putting air defense assets out of the training center so combat can get used to maneuvering with missile defense forces. that i think will be an education process over the next couple of years until it becomes second nature. >> dispersal and all of this stuff is of course a critical piece of how in joint vocabulary we talk. this is called air and miss

the airborne planning committee headed by the air commander in chief of the allied expedationary air forceposed of all the services in the operation, navy, ground, and air. as well as the troop carrier command and the airborne divisions concerned. british ground crews helped assembly their own gliders before turning them over to troop carrier. this now belongs to the ninth troop carrier command. each group now had 73 aircraft instead of the normal 52. the troop carrier force of three wings and 14 groups contained one experienced wing and five combat-wise groups from the mediterranean. three planes in each squadron are equipped for aerial pickup. thorough coordination between ground and air is necessary for resupply of water containers. these men are pathfinders. a combined team of troop carrier crews and parachute technicians who will set up homing devices for the main aerial convoy. teams consist of 9 to 14 technical men and 5 security personnel. the pathfinder school, starting with our president and table of organization, and with little equipment, turned out 50 trained troop carrier cre

that's when racial integration started forth air force. seven months later they said they were going to integrate racially. i went back in and went to p school for 50 weeks and became a may want nans officer. when i graduated rascial integration had taken place and i was signed to a bomb group on guam, a maintenance officer, but i learned to fly the airplane. in 1950 i was put on a combat crew as a co-pilot. when the korean war started we flew over korea. the first mission was the 30th of june. but there was still racial problems in those days. i got a new commander who would not speak to me except in the line of duty because he didn't believe in racial integration. and we went to okinawa, and he pulled me off of the airplane and replaced me, he didn't want me in his outfit. that was the first crew shot down, my crew was in it and i didn't go down with them. i survived that period, i got a new commander after that because my squadron commander went to group commander and a new commander put me on flying status and i flew 49 missions. i cam

i was a lieutenant in the air force, stationed at the air force base at the time, and my assignment, my job, was to determine what kinds of information people needed and in what order and in what visual display when ballistic missiles were raining down on you and the end of the world was coming. i'm a very well-educated engineer and i became an engineer in the air force. and yet i couldn't, with my skills and my education, figure out how i was supposed to make ends meet and make child care work to fulfill my military responsibilities and serve our country. i was going against the system in many ways. a new mother serving in the military with a working civilian husband. and that's not what most people picture when they picture a traditional military family. it wasn't even what i saw as a young girl when i was growing up. i was the daughter and granddaughter of career naval officers and career navy wives. and i watched as my mother and my grandmother moved us all around the country and cared for us while our -- my father and my grandfather served. my -- my mother's job was to create a

then as part of that they have f armed services and army and navy and air force that kept the country theoretically but then they have an armed force that is independent of the army, navy and air force and that is the islamic revolutionary guard corps. i our gc. first of all, they don't respond or answer to the president or foreign minister and don't answer to regularly army but answer directly to the supreme leader and people don't understand this they describe to other countries the activities of her own and the president is not the commander-in-chief and reality of the i rgc and the operate completely separate and by the way, that means the i rgc the islamic revolutionary guard corps can operate oftentimes doing things that foreign minister or spokesperson for the armenian government might not even know about. the point being that we have to understand that dynamic because they are not us in our attribute should not be assigned to them and the i rgc has an organization within it that has a unit called the [inaudible] force and that force led by the general are experts and have deve

air force academy in colorado springs. maxine waters speaking at the university of district of columbia. former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein delivers remarks at the university of baltimore law school. and we will look back to may 2013 with then fbi director robert mueller speaking at william and mary. watch commencement speeches thursday 8:00 eastern on c-span. watch online at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. ♪ >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. thursday morning we will discuss the statement on the russia probe by robert mueller. and afghanistan's inspector general will be on to talk about his report on u.s. reconstruction efforts in afghanistan. the sure to watch c-span's "washington journal thursday morning. join the discussion. thursday on the c-span networks, president trump speaks at the air force academy commencement atcolorado springs and 12 -- 12:30 p.m. and a discussion on russia in the middle east. at 4:38 pro forma session wi

the eighth and ninth air force is accomplished that. allied planes blast the coast.onto the next phase, the bombing and crippling of roads, bridges, waterways, rail heads. the isolation of the battlefield. and the battlefield is isolated. no german reserves come through to the coast in any strength. the beachhead holds and grows, and the air force piles up a record number of sorties. fighters blast every target that moves on enemy ground. any target of opportunity is legitimate prey. [machine gun fire] are flown byties the fighters on d-day. [machine gun fire] [machine gun fire] ♪ narrator: back in england, the next gliders are being marshaled for takeoff. c47's are doing double duty. back from paratroops dorps, they -- drops, they are ready to take off with gliders. states,cticed in the but it was not used during this operation because of the additional marshaling space it would require on the air drums. -- airdromes. hard-pressed paratroopers who went into action today are depending on reinforcements and heavier equipment, delivered by these gliders. three groups o

he remained in the air force long after the war was over, serving over 20 years in uniform. the example set by my father's military career and the lessons we learned growing up in a military family helped my siblings and me to prepare for a productive service-centered life. the experience taught us one of the most valuable lessons i continue to carry with me today today, through their service to our country, the men and women of our military are part of something much bigger than themselves. my father was not only my hero but as a world war ii veteran, he and fellow service members in fort smith were embraced in the same manner by the community as a whole. the respect and admiration our community displayed for military members wasn't fake or forced. it was genuine and remains as strong today in communities across our great nation. while those displays will be more publicly visible during national military appreciation month, the feelings of respect, admiration, and gratitude will carry on long after the end of this month. our nation is eternally grateful for the sacrifice of

president at air force one there, air force one arrived. natalie, what would you say, maybe 14 minutes ago? >> just recently, yeah. >> and now on the ground.3 we're awaiting president trump to walk down the stairs. >> and the first lady will be with him of course. >> absolutely. >> and so ivan is giving us the rundown on this trip. yes, we've been saying a little more ceremony than substance. but the president very enthusiastic about being the first to meet the new emperor and to be treated to all kinds of japanese culture. >> reporter: it is going to be quite a show that the japanese are putting on for the american president. very important, he will be the first foreign leader to meet with the newly crowned emperor and the emperess. there will be a ceremony and also a banquet where they will be the guests of honor there. it couldn't be more japanese than the plan for him to attend the championships of sumo wrestling here in tokyo on sunday where he will sit ringside and hand the trump cup to the champions there. one of the things that i le

even the air force document. they just said the program was canceled. a crazy plan like this, we don't know why it happened. my hypothesis, it was canceled because someone, somewhere told i wouldn't get a mushroom cloud on the moon. the whole big idea of this beautiful motion depends on a part. like on earth. the recent to get a mushroom cloud, he gets dust and debris picked up for a volcano or other things. just rapidly rising hot air, hits the above and gets switched down. think it's pushed to the side andr then the air rising rapidly creates that. the growing air gets down and gets sucked back in. that only happens if you have that. the mood is a vacuum already. we could have spent billions of dollars putting a nuclear weapon on the moon to explode it only the dust would go in lots of directions. we certainly would have gotten that mushroom cloud. what's funny is that we found a decade later that we were the only ones with this exact idea at the exact same time. theov soviet had a program as pt of a mission. it is the first human made object that mad

they were the army and navy as well as air force. by this time the air force had been created. by this time, we had air force nurses as well who were serving in that. we had other women around the world as well. on the ground, in korea were primarily army nurses. we can see how uniforms and the military was more accepting and realizing that women were here to say. passion and uniforms under the conditions which they served. >> this would've been the fatigue uniform. this is of the nurses in korea. these were flight nurse uniforms and air force uniforms. we have a hospital -- that would have been carried with the nurses as part of the hospitals they were setting up. i don't know if the nation was maybe battle weary. they wanted to get back to normal lives. there was a great effort to try and recruit everyone. certainly women as well. >> there are a lot of girls watching the program that we would like to see become nurses. this is the opportunity to talk with them. here they are. >> most of all anastas. >> we are asking for nurses and asking these girls to join you, being an army

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show it to all your fans with the united states air force and on social media.air force heritage flight foundation what is the mission quick. >> at air shows and events to bring in little boys and little girls who may not know what world war ii is for example. we live in the history tribute h veterans at the track it was a moving thing to have us fly together. jon: without airplanes like the p-letter 40 mp 51 world war ii would have been tougher for the allied forces. thank you for being with us. good flying today. thank you pete takes a closer look at memorial day and the meaning in the fox news special modern warriors also looking at other relevant topics including military rules of engagement. to make you cannot judge until you are in the position. if they say i will go out and murder innocent civilians, that is one thing. if it is a decision made in the heat of combat we will put american troops at risk if they think every time they pull a trigger or make a decision they can go to jail then they won't make decisions and that will be devastating. jon: modern

air force one on the runway at the yokosukia —— yokosuka naval base.t might be air force two. activity at the airport injapan, regardless. president trump about to wrap up that 4- president trump about to wrap up that 4— day visit during which trade has featured but also international political matters have come up during his conversations with the japanese prime minister. to europe now. the austrian chancellor, sebastian kurz, has been forced from office, after he and his centre—right government lost a vote of no—confidence. mr kurz recently ended his coalition with the far—right freedom party, when its leader was caught in a covert video sting that suggested he was open to corruption. bethany bell reports from vienna. the young rising star of europe's conservatives, sebastian kurz, has suffered a major setback. his centre—right government has become the first in austria since 1955 to lose a vote of no—confidence. the government was sworn in just last week, in the wake of a scandal which engulfed his former coalition partner, the far—right freedom par

the president just arrived at the air force base. not far from where i'm standing in panama city about 15 or 20 minutes ago we have video of him departing air force one. he was joined with senator rick scott and marco rubio. tyndall air force base, an area that was severely hit by hurricane michael back in october, several hundred buildings in and around the area basically completely destroyed. the president will be getting updated briefing on that. he tweeted before leaving florida today from the white house, getting ready to leave for one of my favorite places. giving billions of dollars for the devastation caused by hurricane michael even though the democrats don't want money to go there we are getting it done. the president not taking any questions before leaving washington, before boarding air force one which he typically does sometimes. he also made several headlines today. we learned that he will invoke executive privilege concerning attorney general william barr and democrats plan to hold barr intent of congress for not testi

i have seen it at dover air force base with countless bodies that have come back from overseas. i think about those kids every day and i'm sure my colleagues think about men and women from their state to have served and in some cases with great courage and failure one - - valor with thosemi ideas those colleagues of mine serving in vietnam was premised on a lie and 4100 graveyards all over the country we have to be smarter than that we owe it not just to the families of those men and women but never negotiate out of fear but never be afraid to negotiate. i yield the floor. >> the senator from alaska. >> thank you mister president. i am down here on the floor specifically on a thursday to talk about alaska making a big difference in my state referred to as the alaskan of the week but this is the senate and we have debates and we are respectful and there is no one i respect more than my friend from the senator from delaware. service in vietnam, captain in the navy so when he speaks i listen and i have respect this isn't what i was planning on doing that listening to someone i resp

they were the army, navy as well as air force, which were by this time, air force had been created. in 1947 by this time we had air force nurses as well who were serving in that theater. we had other women serving, of course, around the world as well. but on the ground in korea were primarily army nurses. so we could see how uniforms and how the military was beginning to be more accepting and realizing that women were here to stay. and fashioning uniforms under the conditions under which they were served. so this would have been the fatigue uniform, so to speak. of the nurses in korea. it was very familiar. these were flight nurse uniforms, our air force uniforms. we have a hospital chest that would have been carried with the nurses into the hospital. there wablz a considerable effort to recruit women. everyone, but certainly for women. i don't know if the nation was battle weary. when korea came on the heels so quickly of world war ii, there was a great effort to try to recruit everybody, but certainly for women as well. this is your opportunity to talk to them. there they are. >>

in 1974, this was a sergeant in the air force. he was a decorated vietnam war veteran who had served three tours of duty and had a bronze star. he decided to challenge the military man on gay people serving. working with the father of the lgbtq rights movement, he decided to push back against the air force. the air force discharged him and offered him a settlement instead of changing its policy, you see this brave stance, going on the cover of "time" magazine in 1975 saying, "i am a homosexual." the first gay person to appear they, and these stories start to chip away at attitudes that prevented gay people from serving in the military. in this case, you can see news coverage of the repeal of don't ask don't tell, the policy of the clinton administration that allowed people to serve in the military as long as they were quiet about who they were and what their sexual orientation was. here you see the gavel that nancy pelosi used to announce the repeal of don't ask, don't tell in 2010. out of stonewall comes protests. they were reall

currently he is an officer in the united states air force reserve and previously served in the navy reserveh the joint forces intelligence command naval special warfare group and the office of marriage intelligence. the v.a. secretary mr. robert wilkie. >> thank you and thank you to the gold star mothers who have made more than one sacrifice for this country. i was privileged to address the tax organization last night. i quoted an australian prime minister who said 40 years ago, what would it be like for the there were world if not this country called the united states of america? were not this giant country prepared to make so many sacrifices for peace and freedom across the grove -- globe. that's what i think of when i think of gold star mothers. want to talk about vietnam seen through the eyes of the child. histtle boy who watched father go off to the second tour in southeast asia. before he was 70 got word that his father had been badly wounded. so badly wounded he spent an entire year at an army hospital in hawaii. home he weighed half of what he did when he went. he tried to recover f