the ninth air force. a magnificent plane. >> the next question from jeff in the center. >> i was wondering if you could say something about losses in training in the continental united states. flew 17's as a radio operator and came back and was an air traffic controller. up -- he wasto dig interested in this as a research project as well -- they began to look closely into the spewed -- into this. if you combine air accidents, and these are the current figures, they will probably get higher. if you combine air accidents in the united states with air accidents in england, because they continued to train in england, it is over 25,000 guys killed. roughly 26,000 guys are killed in the eighth air force, the entire eighth air force. 36,000 prisoners of war. even that figure was not quite right, we are not right all the time about casualties. but staggering numbers. just, these numbers keep flying out you and you think, how did these guys get into plane? 78% of the guys who flew in the eighth air force were casu

of new hampshire but air force rotc. this is by the way a couple years ago even though she looks about 35, she is a couple years older than that. this was back in the 1980s and then was commissioned an officer, became what's called an error battle manager with his eye for described as the person tells the f-15 pilots where they can go. so to speak. it literally is the person who does that. she moved up to the ranks, , was the first woman ever at the fighter weapons school which is the real top gun school because it's the air force version of top gun.l. it are looking for the real sort of tom cruise and demi moore g.i. jane, this is the real thing right here in terms of the first when he did that as well as many other accomplishments throughout her career. all of you t know that she was e of thee very few roughly half-dozen women ever in the u.s. military history so far to attain the rank of 4-star general, , which happened about 2014 i believe when she penned d on four stars and a first position with that rank as the air

the air force, the u.s. army air force, at that point, it would come -- become the u.s. air force later, was thinking about needing a very long-range bomber. this is a 1939-1940, when they're not sure what the situation in europe is going to be. so they start to think and being the air force and forward thinkers they are, they jump into the future and make demands that are quite extraordinary and at the helm of all of this is general henry arnold, the chief of the army air forces at that point, but also a man who is very interested in technology and the future and in having the s ultimately become independent of the army. all those things are terribly important so he wants a platform that will make this happen. and what becomes the b-29 is his vision for how to have this happen. and, of course, he is imagining the future of warfare is going to be heavily reliant on strategic bombing. and he gains a number of backers, because the president, particular is quite , interested in this. if you're the head of a democracy, you're always wearing about casualties and more and look

at united states air force study to the idea even for -- air force had studied the idea even before pearlharbor. it became an important part of the strategy, ambition. there were problems from the very beginning. one of the most important things about this mission is it really is a harbinger of the cold war and stalin's very strange behavior comes to the four -- two the -- to the fore all the way throughout. various people in russia said to stalin, how about doing this? molotov orough himself, said no. fear not having americans on soviet soil. we will take -- we are not having americans on soviet soil. we will take the lend lease, we will take the planes, but not you guys. marshall appoints major general john dean to be the end of this new thing called the u.s. military mission in moscow, which was supposed to promote new ties to the soviet union. this is becoming more and more important, not just the ambition in japan, but also in the european theater. the usaall of 1943, battle for survival in europe. stalin had been pushing for the cross channel invasion for two years. of you had to ha

army air force at that point -- it would become the air force later -- was thinking about needing a long-range bomber. this was in 1940 when they are not sure what the situation in europe is going to be. they start to think and being the air force, forward thinkers that they are, they jump into the future and make demands that are extraordinary. isthe helm of all of this general henry arnold. he is a man who is very interested in technology, the future, and in having the air force become independent of the army. all of those things are important. he wants a platform that will make this happen and what becomes the b-29 is his vision for how to have this happen. he is imagining that the future of warfare is going to be heavily reliant on strategic bombing. he gained a number of backers because the president in particular is quite interested. if you are the head of a democracy, you are always wearing about casualties -- worrying about casualties and looking to reduce them. having a large standing army is very expensive and it can be politically and socially disruptive. if there is a way to get ar

nestled up beside that is pope air force base.tions, two professional military men, one woman. that woman, michelle theer, now found herself caught between her husband marty, the air force captain, and her former lover, army staff sergeant john diamond who just wouldn't go away. >> i told him, i don't want to leave my husband. i never told him, i love you. i never said, i want to be with you. i mean i think i was pretty straight up. >> so now with the holiday season in full swing and a new commitment to her marriage, michelle and marty were on the road to raleigh for a night out. traveling with them was another couple from her office. >> they had gone to this christmas party that she specifically asked per boss her marty could go. >> it was sedate by office standards and over early since marty had to fly first thing in the morning. now it was 9:30 p.m. marty, michelle and the co-workers prepared to leave the restaurant. then an interruption. michelle excused herself, made a brief phone call out of earshot of the others. then the d

air force helped teach space ask what mission insurance really was. what it took to actually build a rocket that would work every time, that's a hard thing to do. space x taught us that you can do that in a commercial model and go fast in the two are not mutually exclusive. it was difficult for our culture to accept that but also difficult for their culture to accept that and it was the merging of the culture that created a great partnership. and that pushed out into the broader launch specter, including the united launch line set us to be reflective and we need to take those and transition those pieces. if you look right now think in history, and 20 -- 2007 the united states air force had to work with lockheed and boeing to basically create a comedy calleh industry in this country was about dead. we weren't going to have our own access to space and we were almost on the verge of having to go overseas to provide access to space. look at where we are today. i talked about china forty-year story and that 12 year story is almost as are markable and we we

sorah soars with the air force thunderbirds and meets its only female fighter pilot. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the national's capital. >> garrett: good evening, everyone. orah is off tonight, i'm major garrett. as americans prepare to ring in a new year and a new decade, we begin with rising tensions in the middle east, an echo of past mnflicts. today, a mob forced its way on mb the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad. it was said to be retaliation for u.s. air strikes that killed members of an iranian-backed ilitia. some in the crowd chanted, d,eath to america." they set fires to reception areas, but importantly, did not get inside the embassy itself. lfesident trump said iran will be held directly responsible. da also spoke by phone today with iraq's prime minister. more on the u.s. response in a moment when we speak with the secretary of state, mike pompeo. but holly williams leads us off with what happened at the embassy in baghdad's green zone, which we should note is the most d avily guarded part of that city. >> reporter:

the first thing, we've gone ahead and move 16,000 people. >> is at all air force? >> all air force. that actually goes into the answer about the things we have to look at early. we have to look at the army, the navy and the guard. you cannot do it without the national guard. the national guard is a perfect partner. much more perfect than many other missions. it is perfect. too many cases, a state side mission, a homeland mission done in one place. you can build very good expertise in that one area and have a guard that is focused on a singular mission. it is perfect. we have to figure out the guard. we have to figure out the army and the navy. two elements in the army and navy. when they have about a year to figure it out. congress will make a decision next year. we need to try to be ahead of that. the questions are pretty straightforward. because each service, the air force, army, navy, marine corps have two elements that are space or historically space. they all have it. that is a space capability that brings space into your army maneuver unit, navy fleet, marine corps, whatever i

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 nurs nurses as well, who were serving in the 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 can 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 would serve. so this would have been the fatigue uniform, so to speak, of the nurses, army nurses in korea and it was very familiar, looks like the mash ones that we have seen on television. these were flight nurse uniforms, our air force uniform. we have a hospital chest that would have been carried with the nurses into the, you know, as part of the hospitals that they were setting up. there was a considerable effort to recruit women, well, everyone, but certainly for women. i don't know if the nation was maybe battle weary. they wanted to get back to their normal lives, so when korea came on t

with this heritage comes an unwavering commitment to the air force and the air force's mission to achievele and sustainable launch capability. although we all want to see this nation return to the moon and go on to mars, no one wants to see that more than me, we also recognize that enabling the economic freedoms of this great nation depends on unsurpassed national security capabilities. and to that end, we are 100% focused on the air force mission first and we recognize that once operational, omega will offer an affordable high-performing option for commercial and exploration mission needs as well. so omega is on track for first certification launch in early 2021, an impressive timeline to field a major new system. we've ground tested the core booster that the air force needed to replace the rush 180. many of you watched the first ground test which verified perfect thrust and performance. the results further helped engineers refine and validate our models, increasing our readiness for flight. our liquid upper stage manufacturing is well under way in louisiana. at the kennedy space center

before the shooting denouncing america as a nation of evil who killed 3 was identified as saudi air force officer and he came to the u.s. for training despite the f.b.i. suspecting the shooting as an act of terrorism at the time a top u.s. officials they were quick to highlight their warm relations with saudi arabia take a listen this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people so much the rape is a longstanding partner of ours in the region we share mutual security interests primarily with regard to iran. now barr says the justice department learned during their investigation that 21 members of the saudi military who were training here in the u.s. possessed a derogatory material and of those 2117 had social media profiles containing jihadi or anti-american content however bar says that there was no evidence that they were involved with any terrorist activity or groups also it's important to note 15 individuals were found to have accessed child pornography now bar says that saudi arabia determined the material demonstrated conduc

navy and the air force faces what may be an even bigger problem and other sexual abuse at the air force academy in colorado springs 100 out of 42 allegations of assault against women have been made in the last decade highest ranking air force generals knew about serious problems of sexual assault at the academy yet failed to take action we don't intend to sweep this under the rug we take it very seriously we're going to address it publicly in congress outraged senators accused the air force brass of ignoring assaults on women we have a clear pattern. of reports of sexual assault where the reaction of the air force academy seems to be to blame the victim we're in the process of is to those those changes now the process of instituting those changes now obviously you and i and secretary of fundamental disagreement here. in a small post in washington d.c. pride history and tradition living. room barracks in washington d.c. is the most prestigious unit there is in the marine corps this is the unit where the best of the best go it is the marine corps showcase ceremonial unit it handles presid

, marine corps, air force.d air force being the biggest they all have it, that is a space capability that brings space into your army maneuver unit, navy fleet, marine corps, whatever it is, you have an element that knows how to integrate space into your force. that's actually a service function that should stay in the service. and then you have capabilities like flying satellites, building satellites, delivering satellites, and that's a space force function. so as we move into the future, we have to figure out which element goes in the space force and which stays in the service and different services are structured different ways right now in order to do that, but they both, they all need that capability. so one of the first things we'll worry about is figuring how to do that and we would like to make sure that we have a voice in that decision, which means we have to do it pretty quick because come this summer, probably as soon as hearings, congress is going to be asking that question. >> do you have a sense f

arabia determined to disk material demonstrated conduct unbecoming an officer in the royal saudi air force and in the royal navy and the 21 cadets have been disenrolled from their training curriculum in the us military and will be returned returning to saudi arabia the united states they are sending back those nearly 2 dozen saudi military students from a training program and sending them back again home to saudi arabia and about a dozen saudi trainees at the pensacola base they have been confined to their quarters as the f.b.i. was investigating the shooting as a potential terror attack and the pentagon initiated that review of all saudi military trainees in the country numbering around get this $850.00 students now those 2 dozen servicemen they are not accused of aiding the 21 year old saudi air force lieutenant in last month's shooting that killed 3 and injured 8 but secretary of state william barr is calling the shooting at the naval air station in pensacola as an act of terrorism a bar says on september 11th the 21 year old gunman mohammad saeed ronnie who was an aviation student at t

he wrote a book about the air force and he's a fairly good friend of mine. and a british author she had read one of my earlier books and was happy to do it. in the business they're called blurbs. so you ask people you admire who, if you're lucky enough, are your friends who tell you honestly. i've fortunately never had one go, i'll pass. so that's how that comes about. sure. >> love to hear more about your initial contact with eyet and how you won her over and-- >> na was quite an event. you know, i started off with the belief that she was dead. joe had. and ellen hampton, a friend of ours, i had her initially going through the french archives which can be a mind numbing experience. but she knew people, she went to the right people and i said, it would be great if yvette was still on-line. and 90-year-old french women apparently don't spend a lot of time on-line. so one day i get this e-mail from ellen and she said, i found her. she's alive and it literally blew me away. i thought, number one can you talk to her initially. i'm here for some questions because

>> all air force. that goes into the answer about one of the things we have to look out early is look at the army, navy and the guard because you actually can't do space business without the national guard. the national guard is a perfect partner for the space bmuchmore perfect than any other missions we have the guard do it's perfect because in many cases the stateside mission homeland mission, it's done in one place and you can build very good expertise in that one area and have a guard unit focused on a singular mission. it's perfect. so we have to figure out the guard we have to figure out the army and the navy, and when i look at the army and navy, there's two elements that will be in the army and navy and we only have about a year to figure it out, maybe a little less because congress is going to make a decision next year about how the army and navies are going to be treated and we need to try to be ahead of that. so the questions are pretty straightforward because each service whether the air fo

it makes up for a modern air force with the largest and most diverse ballistic arsenal in the middle east. including more than 2000 miscible capable of reaching targets anywhere in the region. and i emphasize region because i run has not developed the accuracy and reliability for those missiles to be much of a decisive threat. it's navy however is a proven threat to the world oil supply. as recent attacks on oil tankers have shown. in four years ago the revolutionary guard carried an american navy vessel with soldiers on board. in terms of its unconventional capabilities, iran has no shortage of military issues. easily and range of dozens of u.s. assets and our allies. >> tiran will try to prepare its response in a way that makes its enemy regret it did while keeping the iranian nation from getting involved in a war to the extent possible. >> i runs capabilities and cyber warfare are another big part of its unconventional capabilities. i iranian hackers have probed critical infrastructure here in the u.s., and in the last year alone they have carried out at least 14 cyber operations

army air for force. no time to waste, everywhere they're needed so the men trained in training can go off to fight, while wasp's get their ship started on the road overseas. >> for the women air force service pilot, she was, if you see some of them with the pictures, they have fifi, and this is fifinella and the symbol of the women air force service pilots. that was another incredible program, short lived, regrettably, and when the war ended in europe and all of those pilots came home, they disbanded the program, and they were another part of this effort in 1977 with legislation that went forward to give them veterans benefits and the women air force service pilots were part of that legislation as well. finally. another incredible group of people were the cadet nurses, 134,000 women were trained, three years of training as nurses. there was a concern that we would, because we were in a battle of two fronts, nurses were critically needs so they in 1943 established the cadet nurse core for this training of

on air force one. air force one is the pride of the united states of america, the flying lighthouse. i don't think he should be allowed to do that. should takeress this air force one and park it at vandenberg air force base and not let this man get on it and go abroad. host: what do you think? guest: i agree with everything you had to say except limiting the president for air force one. i worked for ronald reagan and wrote his campaign flag or fee and for george h w bush served think youi don't should deny that person free speech or can't use air force one or can't represent us. that is what elections are all about, we have the right to vote for who we want to vote for. host: how many presidents have you interviewed? guest: six american presidents. host: what defines a legacy? guest: historians look at 120 different things, but primarily the economy and the handling of war and peace. the economy dominates. they want to know a president's intelligence. jimmy carter may be the most intelligent, but he is

the material demonstrated conduct unbecoming of an officer in the saudi royal air force and the royal navy and as a result those 21 cadets have been on in rolls and they are all returning to saudi arabia at this shooting has now made the pentagon hold any flight training for saudi military aviation students at 3 florida bases national security adviser robert o'brien said that u.s. officials and defense secretary mark asper are proceeding with caution saying quote pensacola showed that there are errors in the way that we vetted and out of an abundance of caution secretary asper has taken these actions to protect our servicemen and women. middle east analyst shi'a franklin thinks the education people receive in the gulf kingdom encourages violence. if you take a average saudi military officer i would actually wonder what wouldn't drive them to this extreme the research by the institute for go fers has shown that the textbooks from 1st grade through 12th grade all the saudi public schools basically teach demonization of jews christians non wahhabi muslims apostates people who don't. obse

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 ban on gay people survey. 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 a settlement is that of offering to change its policy. but you see this person.'s brave stance, going on the cover of "time" magazine in 1975 saying, "i am a homosexual." 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 a military as long as they were required 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 called because they were p

just in tonight, the president spoke to reporters off camera, but on the record, tonight aboard air force one. of note, he doubled down on his threat to attack sites of cultural importance to iran should they retaliate. te said, they are allowed to kill our people, they are

american nations migration institute, the deported migrants arrived in guatemala on guatemala's air force flights from brownsville and el paso texas as well as 1, 5 from arizona. last year more than a 100,000 guatemalans were deported from the us and mexico. the guatemalan government's migration agency confirms at least 54,000 were deported from the us and the rest from

air force and that's to thank you for joining us on the. now we have breaking developments on another major story the death of him on cell time cumbrous been side aside now just hours after his passing was announced a successor has been chosen sultan qaboos had no children and never publicly named a successor the 79 year old was credited with modernizing i'm on and mediating between rivals in a volatile region while with me is my jobs where he is director of the gulf studies center here at cafe university imagine the seems like a very speedy succession process how do how this will play out and what do we know about his successor that's absolutely what was expected the process was a clear the procedure was a clear as we said you know the defense counsel has basically asked the family to meet the family met they've made the decision we mentioned in the previous. interview that there were 3 names now that the name the 3rd and then we mention them have been thought of it who used to be minister of national heritage and culture and he was also s

and the material demonstrated conduct unbecoming of an officer in the saudi royal air force and the royal navy and as a result those 21 cadets have been an enrolled and they are all returning to saudi arabia at this shooting has now made the pentagon halt any flight training for saudi military aviation students at 3 florida bases national security adviser robert o'brien said that u.s. officials and defense secretary mark asper are proceeding with caution saying quote pensacola showed that there are errors in the way that we vetted and out of an abundance of caution secretary asper has taken these actions to protect our servicemen and women. let's bring you on to another story we're closely following today wiki leaks co-founder julian assange was in court in london on monday for a routine administrative hearing on his possible extradition to the u.s. though during this lawyers were granted more time after they complained of not having the opportunity to go over a case files with their client or a video agency ruptly was there when she was seen exiting the courts a crowd of his supporters h

helicopters unable to land on the roof, forced to make rescues from the air. >>> the impeachment trial of president trump tonight and the breaking headline. the question from key republican senators, what they just asked about president trump and joe biden. with the all-out battle now over whether john bolton should testify. democrats arguing, why should americans have to wait for bolton's book to come out, arguing, subpoena him, get the answers now. meantime, president trump's personal attack against bolton tonight. >>> the kobe bryant crash investigation. the chopper flying without a key warning system. could it have made a difference? and the new image late today from kobe bryant's wife. >>> inside the tunnel tonight. the stunning images just in. the tunnel into the u.s. 70 feet below ground. electricity and elevators. >>> bracing for a possible collision tonight in the skies over pittsburgh? are two satellites set to collide at 17,000 miles per hour? >>> the warning tonight, another case, someone falling into icy waters. the urgent effort to get her out. >>> and billy joel and the

because it's done inside the air force and the air force set up a really good process.k the services out about how you do a basic decision and it's kept very close hold and goes through a very structured process because it become so political that you want to make sure you have all your ducks in the road to do that. secretary braun i'm sure knows exactly where it is right now and i don't. but i do know that we need a decision i think this year sometime. i think as long as we have it this year sometime we will be okay but that's why i said roughly a year. i hope to have it sooner but we need it in a year. >> one of the questions from the audience related to space questions which is you raised hypersonic missiles, my colleague hates it when you call Ãbwhen we call it hypersonic. sorry tom. what can you tell us about the importance of a space center layer as a foundation for that capability? >> it's important to realize that it doesn't matter what the threat is, if you can't see it, you can't defend against it. if you can't see it, you can't deter it either. the second pie

what is different with the former president is that you no long ver a military planes, air force one, so you have to make sure that you have the american airlines mileage card, because you are going to be spending a lot of time traveling. and traveling with the former president and mrs. ford was different, because, you are on a public plane. they want to greet him, and president ford had a great system. he would get on the plane, and flying in first class made me that i had to fly first then, too. but he would go on the inside seat, and i'd be on the aisle, and he would immediately go to sleep so to speak, and people would come by and go, oh. and so they would go by. but he was, both he and mrs. ford were spectacular to work for. and, you know, he was great on the golf course. bob hope made jokes about him, and bob hope said that he is the only president that could play two golf courses simultaneously [ laughter ] and the jokes kept going on and on, but very gracious couple. it was a privilege to be on the detail. >> great. nick, let's you and i have the privilege to do a couple of se

arabia determined to disk material demonstrated conduct unbecoming an officer in the royal saudi air force and in the royal navy and the 21 cadet have been disenrolled from their training curriculum in the u.s. military and will be returned returning to saudi arabia later today the united states they are sending back those nearly 2 dozen saudi military students from a training program and sending them back again home to those 2 dozen servicemen they are not accused of aiding the 21 year old saudi air force lieutenant in last month's shooting that killed 3 an injured 8 but secretary of state william barr is calling the shooting at the naval air station in pensacola as an act of terrorism and ronnie also posted anti-american anti israeli messages on social media now one of those messages even being posted just 2 hours before the shooting on december 6th the justice department learned during their investigation that 21 members of the saudi military who were training here in the u.s. possessed a derogatory material and of those 2117 had social media profiles containing jihadi or anti-american

to afghanistan in 2008 where they found as with all the different communication systems that the air force the navy and all the different can commands use they weren't able to talk to each other specifically because the mountain mountainous terrain made that difficult so what these 4 planes in kandahar do is they fly around and sort of described as a wi-fi in the sky they make it so that people who are on the ground what they call forward air controllers those are basically spotters can tell the pilots where to buy or where to shoot and it allows them to communicate so it's unlikely that it was is the taliban is claiming intelligence although of course there could be classified systems on the plane there usually are but it's an air force plane and it wouldn't have been necessarily transporting high ranking officials it would have had a crew onboard but i haven't been able to determine just how many people americans or other were onboard that plane but again for now the pentagon stay mum all right patty thank you for that particular force in washington. lebanon spawn a mentos past its 2020

not speak to the media when he arrived in washington either but he did speak to some reporters on air force one and he said that if if he told these reporters that the u.s. to spend billions of dollars on military bases in iraq and that if iraq kicks the americans out of the country in any way they would not leave until the u.s. is reimbursed for that money building those bases according to trump then he also went on to say that if the u.s. is forced out of iraq that the u.s. would impose sanctions on iraq that he said would be much stronger than anything that the u.s. has put on iran so what you essentially have now is you have trump administration and trump president himself not only ramping up the rhetoric and escalating the situation with iran but also now with these new threats of sanctions against iraq you have the same escalation happening with from the president with iraq as well. trump is again threatening that the u.s. will attack iraq cultural sites what more can you tell us. yeah this is remarkable in some ways the president. on saturday sent out a tweet where he said that the u

> for the army, is it really fair to say this is the priority region, for the dod writ large and air force and navy, one can understand the argument. for the army, it looks like you have more forces in europe than in asia and you have more activity, more kinetic activity in the middle east. it looks to me like the army has three -- >> this is what i would call the accounting within the combatant commanders. there are more assigned forces in pacom than in any other theater. the challenges, a lot of them are in washington state and the west coast of the united states. so what challenges the indo indo-pacom commander is the disposition of the capabilities. when back in the spring the general, my wingman and i, went out to see admirable davidson, went two or three days with him, took a look at our investments, our readiness exercise program, our defender program, to look at how the disposition of the capability would better serve his needs to get the effects within the region. so we expanded the idri program, put more money in there, put more money in the defender series program. i highlighted