four major programs in the mark include issues related to body armor, the army's heavy armor industrial base, the air force global hawk unmanned aircraft fleet, and the multiservice f-35 aircraft program. body armor provided to the war fighter continues to meet all current survivability performance standards. however, we remain concerned over the impact on the soldier of the weight of current body armor and other combat gear. proposed language in the committee highlight the need to continue the effort to reduce the weight of soldiery equipment and options for body armor specifically designed and fitted for the female soldier. the army budget request for fiscal 2013 would result in a production peak for heavy modification programs, including the abrams tank, the bradley fighting vehicle, and the hercules recovery vehicle beginning in 2013, which the army indicates could last anywhere from three to four years. army analysis to date does not support its budget recommendations. that is why ranking member reyes and i requested that the gao review the army's analysis. in a preliminary briefin

there will continue to be armor in the force. will we reduce the amount of armor? probably. as we come forward with the specific force mix. but we still need a combination of all of those capabilities. >> i believe his parents are supposed to come in soon for another update. do you meet with them? >> i met with them last time when they came in. i talked with them. if they want to i will meet with them again. >> can you give us an update of where you see the search? >> i think you need to ask that to -- that's their requirement. we look at it. there is lots of work. we never give up. there is a lot of analysis being done to try to find where he is. we never, never stop. i do get updates on it. >> as you move forward with the model, what is your plan for rotational or deployment availability versus required dwell time? >> well, 2-1 is what we shoot for. and, in fact, for the first time last month we were finally at a two to one dwell time ratio. it has to do with reduced requirement in iraq and continued reduction in afghanistan. and we'll have to see. we'll have continued rot

only had the capability to do it and did it by armoring striker vehicles. the men and wochlen at rock arsenal worked 24 hours a day seven days a week to make the armor the troops needed. as we maintain and withdraw over what we have maintained the last decade, it is essential we maintain our ability to respond to a national security emergency and maintain ability to rapidly equip our troops for a future contingency. we must identify the manufacturing capabilities essential to our readiness and national security and workload necessary to insure those capabilities remain viable. doing so will inform this committee's work to protect our national security and make sure our troops have the equipment they need when they need it. this is about our readiness to face the threats our nation faces. i look forward to working with the rank iing chairman and membs to make sure our arsenal is strong and workforce is maint n maintained and our ability to produce the equipment we need to respond to a national emergency is preserved. thank you. i yield back. >> just a remind

there will continue to be armor in the force. will we reduce the amount of armor? probably. as we come forward with the specific force mix. but we still need a combination of all of those capabilities. as we look to the future. >> coming up on the anniversary of being abducted in afghanistan and i believe his parents are supposed to come in soon for another update. do you meet with them, or would army leadership meet them? >> i met with them last time when they came in, and i talked with them and if they want to, i will meet with them again. >> can you give us an update where you see this search for bergdahl -- stands -- >> you have to have centcom. that's their requirement. we look at it, there's lots of work we never give up. lots of work being done. a lot of analysis being done to try to find where he is. we never, ever stop. i can tell you that much. i do get updates but centcom is responsible. i'd ask you to ask them that question. >> what about the original alliance model. what is your plan for rotational requirement -- >> well, two to one is what we shoot for. by the

we want frantry training, armor office training armor and you want that capability within each individual in order to be able to train there, and you want unit dmaft order to train there. so we'll align them as such, and we'll continue to train to a certain combined arms level. as we move forward. >> just a follow up. on the africa thing. can you talk a little bit more about how this is going to work. as we all know a lot of the special operations forces are doing a lot of this training in somalia and other places. will the army be working with special operators? is this now in africa going to be more of an army job? >> it's both. it's both. i mean, there are some missions and there are many things that go on. it is probably better to talk to general hamm. he can give you a better feel how hue use them. there is a mission for both conventional and special operations forces. there will be some cases where conventional forces are supporting special operations forces. you know, we've built these strong relationships in both iraq and afghanistan over the last seven, eight, nine years, and we'

and we have saved countless lives through these armoring kits. we at the embassy, we get the thank you letters from the parents, from the husbands, from the wives, thank you for saving our kids with these vehicles that took a direct hit but nothing happened to the people in them because of these kits. there's a little start-up company in jerusalem which has developed a high-tech bandage that has an internal pressure system that applies pressure to a fresh wound and stops bleeding. fortunately, one of these bandages was in the medical kit of a s.w.a.t. team in tucson, arizona, on that terrible day when congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot. they immediately applied this bandage to her head wound and it stopped the bleeding and saved her life. we have provided one million of these bandages to u.s. fighting forces so far. so we're saving lives. we are saving limbs. we are engaged together in humanitarian missions around the world. israel was the first on the ground with a fully manned and equipped medical team in earthquake-stricken haiti, and w

armored personnel vehicle which probably in the. car they have three men crews and they can marry up to seven. soldiers inside the rifleman. so this is no because these are. but they are eighty or eighty see. if you talk about the vintage given to just nineteen eighty-four or commission for the first time in the day still in the order. reflective effect because they are fighting. cross-country capacities direction. to be frank with you i used to write in one of those. in the princess. and the smugness override is fantastic it's like you're right you know what. i'm telling you so many wheels and suspension from. your true billet terry but i can tell specially if you go cross-country you know and then in. english he told me. you know kind of takes the we have here it's two ninety. nine two times. so you are sort of upgraded to version so for to seventy two. and the. they have been they were commissioned in one thousand the ready you remember they're quite efficient and they're to the west are much lower than those of their competitors

then in the predawn hours of 13 august, east german police, armored cars and tanks deployed along the soviet sector of the city. workers set up barbed wire barricades and construction of more substantial cement block walls. although west berliners and allied personnel were still allowed in and out of east berlin through a few well-guarded checkpoints, decrees from the east german government forbade its citizens from entering west berlin. tank divisions deployed to the north and south of the city. and soviet tanks moved into east berlin to take positions at various locations. over the course of the next several days, east germans worked to complete the isolation of west berlin. within a week, they designated a crossing point in the american sector as the only point of entry into east berlin for the allies and other foreign nationals. as east german police and workmen sealed off doors and windows in buildings that made up portions of the barricade and replaced barbed wire with concrete, the grim reality of the divided city began to sink in to citizens on both sides of the wall. although

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armor personnel. from the beginning of the police. and the. there we go flying over a started. there would be a big smile on my hands and a cop. just mentioning that you are in terms. of saying like to remind our viewers and being a resident of moscow you very rarely see anything in russia moscow's airspace and when these helicopters go by it really surprises people because it's a closed air space so not today very populated there's space here the sea helicopters go by carrying banners obviously. desperately wanted the speed of the copper and for you know it's kind of columbus for all of. them to have space but as you move from. the parade is beginning to wind down here he will see a fly over of planes at least traditional as well as all the different problems just to look out for just. variations every single year but more or less the same the same. remembering the tragic tragic events of nine hundred forty one of the forty five with the soviet union lost twenty seven million people in the conflict against nazi germany and its ours was accomplished because fascism would save e

army decided to use some of it to manufacture munitions and armor plating. dug roxy's depleted uranium quite simply as a nuclear weapon and yes it is it's solid radioactive waste as chemically toxic it's radioactive radioactive for eternity it's a dirty bomb and yeah it is i always call it nuclear for what it is it's nuclear waste used to kill and destroy and thus contaminate air war or soil and food that remains there to cause harm for eternity this weapon was used for the first time in iraq in one thousand nine hundred one at the time the u.s. army asked doug to inspect the tons of burnt down iraqi tanks destroyed by depleted uranium missiles this is measuring the contamination undestroyed know as a result in his team were seriously contaminated by inhaling uranium dust today doug is one of the only survivors of that group and we need to look at me i mean what i looked like there was a lot different story nearly healthy and our bodies are stored nearly sick little me right there and we were the best of the best all i for many morse not worth it. too many p

nym has been used in american munitions since one thousand nine hundred one in missiles shells and armor plating for military vehicles. and when i shut up wood to four by force man it worked great this stuff is good ok i mean have to understand the purpose is to kill and destroy and uranium weapons are the ultimate because there's a massive fireball of bahrain uranium fragrances that are moving extraordinarily high velocity and fragments that are not burning that cost massive secondary explosions or massive fires in the thing that will burn. your anian is a mineral used to nuclear power plants part of it isn't rich and used as fuel for the reactors. the rest is radioactive waste known as depleted uranium. as the cost of storage are high the us army decided to use some of it to manufacture munitions and armor plating. dug roxy's depleted uranium quite simply as a nuclear weapon and yes it is it's solid radioactive waste as chemically toxic it's radioactive radioactive for eternity. it's a dirty bomb and yeah it is i always call it nuclear for what it is it's nuclear waste used to kill and

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did not request funding for the national guard four major programs include issues related to body armor. the industrial base. the air force global hawk unmanned ircraft body armor provided to the war fighter cuts continues to meet all current survivability performance standards. proposed language highlights the efforts to assess option for providing body armor specifically designed and fitted for the female soldier. the army budget request for fiscal year 2013 would result in a production peak for vehicle modification -- production break for heavy vehicle operation programs. which the army indicates could last anywhere from three to four years. army analysis to date does not support the budget recommendations. in a preliminary briefing last week to committee staff. they indicated the overall soundness cannot be fully determined because of uncertainties associated with both the army and prime contractor assumptions, underlying the cost estimates. it's possible the cost to shut them down and restart them several years later could be as costly as maintaining minimum sustained production to

you can see armor that came out of this pit that's in the exhibit before you go. please see that. and the dates of coins. all this stuff was coming out of here. and it was military enough, it was old enough. wow, this is james fort. but it took many years to connect all the dots to be able to tell where and how the fort laid out from that point. i wasn't sure if we were on the west side, the east side, inside, outside, you know, for a long time. but we went ahead and announced in 1996 that the fort -- some parts of this fort is here. as it turned out, almost 90% had escaped erosion. and so many people came over here and so many died, their possessions were just scattered and buried in things like a cellar, ditches, wells, it just -- wherever there is a hole in the ground, it got filled with some pretty amazing artifacts. so right now the collection goes over 1.5 million objects have been found. over the 18 years. the way it's done, you open up an area, usually on a ten-foot square, find a streak that goes through, palisade lines, say okay -- and just follow these things, a square

i first put my language skills to work in 2003 when i served with the third armored cavalry regimen. understood the valuable role with local iraqi officials and placed me in charge of the government support team. the rapport i built in cities such as fallujah saved american and iraqi lives and helped my unit develop the successful counterinsurgency strategy. in 2004, i took command of a tank company in the third armored cavalry and trained my men for a second tour beginning in april 2005. because i could speak arabic partnered with an iraqi army of battalion in the province. our tour was successful and recognized as one of the strongest tactical partnerships at that time. i was able to plan and execute tactical operations with my iraqi counterparts without an interpreter. i have the national education security program to thank for that. because of my fellowship, i came to the army with a unique skill set that i have leveraged to build and strengthen strategic relationships with our partners in the middle east. currently serving across the department of defense and other governmental

the next step is we have to continue to look at do we open up infantry and armor mlss to females. what we have done is we are really now collecting information and we're setting a course forward on how we might take a look at this. that's what i have asked the training commander and major general bob brown to start taking a look at this and provide us recommendations how we might move forward. there has been no decisions made. we want to bring information up to the secretary and decide the way forward on how we want to progress and potentially open it up to these positions. >> does that depend on how you see things go over the next several months with what is happening now? >> it's not going to wait -- start looking at it now. and then we will chart a course of action as a way forward. and i suspect something like that will probably come out sometime this summer. >> does this include a plan to send women through the marine equivalent of their infantry officer school? >> we have our own schools. we'll take a look at it. that's what the recommendation will come forward. are we going

in 2004, i took command of a tank company in the 3rd armored cavalry regiment and trained my men for a second tour beginning in april 2005. because i could speak arabic, i was partnered with an iraqi army battalion in the province. our tour was successful and recognized as one of the strongest american-iraqi tactical partnerships at that time. i was able to plan and execute tactical operations with my iraqi counterparts without an interpreter. i have the national security education program to thank for that. because of my boren fellowship, i came to the army with a unique skill set that i have leveraged to build and strengthen strategic relationships with our partners in the middle east. alumni like me are currently serving across the department of defense and other governmental agencies. we arrive at the federal workforce, language enabled and regionally astute, ready to address complex problems and build lasting partnerships across the globe. and sir, i want to thank you for your continued interest in this very important capability. >> thank you very much. shawna, when i was a youn

it has less to do with the number of factors of the armor, the helmets helmets, battlefield but it's -- mitt said and medevac to get to the kid out within 30 minutes. also explosives but the gunshot wounds far more lethal and carefully placed. there is a higher rate to of death from the gunshot wound. we have new types of injuries and a lot of amputations. it is commonplace to see somebody missing ll due to an explosion. more face and head injuries. one of the most poignant feigns was to show me a new board of the hospital and people suffering from head injuries and in all of the bathrooms there were no mirrors because they did not want to anybody to see their reflection without help. and is said different sort of four. a greater incidence of ptsd now we are better to diagnose and the head now will restarted basically eight to merge nine years after the troops pulled out. the other wars, not at all but we also understand while traumatic brain injury the military and the national football league discover this at the same time is now longer something to shrug off. might take away is to

whereas when that confederate earthwork was built, some armor was found that had survived. we can compare the two and see it's in much better shape. there's real metal in the part that was found in 1861 and now, you know, it's almost gone. that's the urgency. plus the burials, too, will be gone. >> let's go back to the callers. dallas, texas, is next. chase, good afternoon. >> caller: thank you. would you comment, sir, of your examination of the forensic remains of those skeletons, the stature of these men. it looks to me like john smith was kind of small. was that exceptional? how big were these guys? thanks. >> well, they tend to be shorter on average. but not a whole lot. and we have just finished studying a large number from a major burial ground that proves this. we're getting more statistics on that. >> i think that the whole thing about john smith being small, i've searched and searched and have not found any documentation that actually says how tall he was. and i think it all kind of stems from this illustration that was done when he is fighting a native. and the na

ernest is in the van with bruce of this french armored division. of course, they've got to stop for a couple of firefights. ernest never drove through a firefight they didn't like. then get into paris and it's pandemonium. ernest's wish has sort of come true. this picture doesn't capture th chaos. bruce's diary captures a little. as they're driving through paris bruce later said it was impossible to refuse the gifts thrust upon us. in the course of the afternoon we had beer, cider, white and red bordeaux, white and red burgundy, champagne from whiskey, cognac, armagnac and calvados. i hope they were still mission capable after doing all this. on the next day bruce and hemingway liberate the hotel. they go into the bar and by this time the entourage is quite large. and bruce orders 50 martinis which gets served up to everybody in his group and bruce writes in his diary, he says, you know, they weren't really very good. talk about that kind of, you know, the virginia aristocrat, only the best for him. but he's fair and he says, you know, we stayed fo

and i noticed that there was this early collection of arms and armor, and it came from the area of the confederate earthwork on preservation virginia property. and it just looked like a fort. it was early. it was military. and at that time point bill kelso and another colleague nick lichetti got involved and looked at the field records to see maybe if something had been overlooked, you know, some feature that looked like a palisade wall or a ditch. and sure enough, they kind of saw some things that looked like right-angled features, you know, that looked like they could be part of pali palisades defense . and we presented preservation virginia a plan, that bill worked up, a whole master plan of how we were going to do this. it was supposed to be a ten-year project and here we are going on, 18, i think, because we found the fort, oh, wow! the biggest discovery of our lifetime. we're so close to it that sometimes we forget how significant this is, and probably long after we're dead and gone, people are going to finally get excited about this because it is, you know, in our backyard, and

i think a bomb hit on the sloping side of the armor and then went out to the side. when we come out, john anderson and i went out together. he was second class boatman, i was seaman first. he had a twin brother occupy the five-inch gun. we tried to get him but he was on fire and couldn't do it. they brought the barge up the stern of the ship and the lieutenant commander's damage control, i don't remember his name, but he told us we might as well leave the ship. in fact, he shoved us off, on top the dead and the wounded. we went just right over to the island just a short distance. there was a runway out there and they had an underground place. betook the wounded into it. i think they were picked up and taken to a hospital. i'm not sure. we was kind of messed up. and then we got a boat and started picking up people. slept on the beach that night and next day i got on the "uss mcdonagh" and dd 351 and i stayed on it until '43. most of the boys i went in with were school dropouts. i was a school dropout. i didn't finish school until i was 25. most of them were hungry. m

rational for each of the member states to take those specific decisions like the dutch eliminating armor. or the danes eliminating all submarines. there's not a commonality what should we be refencing, where do we think we should spend our very limited resources and what guidance could we offer to capitals saying if you have a choice between x and y, we prefer you lean towards x instead of y or vice versa, and this is, again, something that's not occurring and i think will have a long-term impact on the alliance collectively. the other bit of bad news i would say in terms of just sketching out the nature of the problem before i get to what's happening at the summit is that it doesn't seem like the cuts that we're seeing right now whether vert irkal or horizontal or 5% or 20% show any signs of stopping, and so while the u.k. does technically have when it looks at defense planning out into the next decade a reverse bell curve. cuts occur now but they're planning for a brighter day when they'll be an uptick. one is not entirely sure whether or not that will actually occur, but one could giv

see our battle stations were below the armor deck. but we no sooner got down there and we could tell the ship was already listing. this is a matter of one, two, three minutes. and everybody is looking around, what in the world is going on? what is going on? what is happening? and we were there i'm sure not over a minute or two. and then the bugler sounded abandon ship. and the bosun was chanting and chanting "abandon ship, abandon ship." now we're like this. we had taken on ammunition in san francisco for the fleet. and the naval ammunition depot was loaded so we were going all over the ocean with all of this ammunition. i could think my word, when this ship sinks it's going to blow up. i wanted to get away from there fast. because, you know, these things occur to you in a matter of seconds. by then the ship is like this so i was going to run and dive way out and about then the ship really jerked. well, i thought at the time and for some time after that it was another bomb, a torpedo, but actually what it was, was the mooring lines. s

was a store house and that's where the armor would be kept, where the soldiers that would go on duty would suit up. sort of a locker room for the guys. and right next to it in a blacksmith shop site that are marked by the posts we found more than two dozen sword hilts. found just as one of our most interesting visitors showed up, the queen of england. in may of 2007. she came down. walked down the stairs which are right behind you there and looked at that site. and we're finding all these arms and armor, and i was supposed to take her around one-on-one and make sure she had a reflective moment about the history of jamestown. so, i thought, well, i got to come up with something. i was pretty nervous. so, i said, we're looking at the swords and maryann was actually working on them at the time and said, well, this is the first time that this english equipment has seen the light of day in 400 years. i thought, what if she says i would like to have them back, thank you, it still belongs to us. not really, though. anyway, and what we're doing right now, maryann and don, maybe you could tel

ernest is in the van with bruce of this french armored division. of course, they've got to stop for a couple of fire fights. earnest never drove through a fire fight that he didn't like. then get into paris and it's pandemonium. ernest's wish has sort of come true.

that's cited quite frequently is the dutch decision to eliminate all of their tanks, all of their armor. and one could argue that from a dutch national security perspective maybe that was a decision that was wise and long overdue, but one has to also ask the question had there been a conversation in nato among all of the allies to determine whether or not that actual capability might be needed in years ahead. say, looking out over the next decade. that type of a conversation is not happening. so that's another problem that i would point out is that inside capitals nah nato member states, individual members are taking these rather radical decisions in some cases and again might seem perfectly reasonable and rationale for each of the member states to take those specific decisions like the dutch eliminating armor or the danes many years ago eliminating all their submarines. but what's not occurring is there's not a wider conversation inside the alliance right now about what should we be ring fencing, what do we think the future missions could look like. where do we think we should be spend

vehicles these armored vehicles i think are called blackwater grizzlies what were they used for they all about ok will they i saw going on january twenty eighth as well and i drove past the one that you're speaking of and it seems like they usually come from somewhere else and not oakland but they usually just come out in force like a show of bravado like they even used them typically it's the officers physically in cruisers in van following around protesters and then they climb out of the van and line in riot gear and then advance on the crowd in a various way i think one of the things that was unintended in the occupy wall street movement but what really happened in a major way a was a showcasing an illustration of the treatment by police of people in this country a lot of people that i have spoken to people that live in the inner cities say you know this is nothing new for us but when it happened at all the occupy wall street to a bunch of you know frankly white college graduates and people were getting arrested pepper sprayed in the face on the campus of berkeley a lot of people

rocky terrain forced them to get out of their armored vehicles and move in on foot. walking up toward the village. what happens next? >> meyer: right at daylight, they open fire on them. the... the enemy starts... starts raining down. they had mortars, rockets, rocke-propelled grenades and small arms fire. >> martin: they were waiting for you. >> meyer: they were. >> martin: this was an ambush. >> meyer: oh, it was. we were set up. >> martin: with an estimated 100 to 150 enemy fighters dug in on the high ground above them, the marines called for artillery fire from a nearby base. the first rounds missed, so first lieutenant michael johnson, one of the four marines trapped inside the village, radioed new coordinates of the enemy positions. but the commanders in the operations center back at the base refused to fire. >> meyer: they denied it. the army denied it and told him it was... it was too close to the village. and he said, "too close to the village?" and the last words i heard him say was, "if you don't give me these rounds right now, i'm going to die." >> martin

. >> and still ahead, a special piece of armor for men and women on the front lines of war. >> always a bridesmaid that'all the horses sir. ...and the men? alll the king's men are here too sir. it doesn't look good. ♪ i'm thinking of asking carlina to have dinner at my place. she's italian... and you can't cook. ♪ >> they are not your typical piece of combat armor. >> some women and men on the front lines are wearing battle st. bracelets. she says it should have it to protect her son, she can at least ask for a little help. >> we put together these saints bracelets. my son has been wearing it since he went over. his been a couple firefights and attacks. >> the saints on the price of each have a unique military connection. they helped to build clinics right here at home in bethesda. >> love that. time now for a check of your traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> let's get to adam caskey. beautiful start today. >> as an art roof camera. put this into motion. a nice. hd time lapse from our rooftop camera there. sunrise at 5:36 a.m.. beautiful more of it over the nation's capital. temp

body armor provided to the fighters continues to meet all current survivability performance standards, however, we remain concerned over the impact on the soldier of the weight of current body armor and gear. the committee report highlights the need to continue efforts to reduce the weight of soldier equipment and assess options for providing body armor specifically designed and fitted for the female soldier. the army budget request for fy 13 would result in a reduction for -- a break for heavy modification programs are including the bradley fighting vehicle and the hercules recovery vehicle, beginning in 2013. it could last from anywhere to three to for years. the analysis to date does no >> essential to the national security and no alternatives to the program which will provide acceptable capability to meet the joint military requirement at less cost. the global hawk aircraft provides something that no other aircraft can provide. we are currently providing support to the combatant centers in the central and european commands. regarding the f. 35 aircraft, there continue to be major

last year. 49 were wearing body armor.re killed in ambushes, or police chases. >>> the family of a high school student scheduled a memorial for her tomorrow. she died last wednesday in st. louis from complications of a disease. she was a freshman at washington university in st. louis. she was co-captain of the lacrosse team. >>> acupuncture may help improve breathing in some patients. patients getting medicine and acupuncture showed improved breathing. larger trials are needed to confirm the findings. >> new research finds a million adults in the u.s. are prone to sleepwalking. scientists found people with depression were 3 times more likehy to sleep -- likely to sleepwalk and people suffering from alcohol abuse or who took anti-depressants. >>> tools. give you information about the photo. >> next, we will show you how easy it is to get inside information that could be hidden in any photo. >> back in 10 minutes. clear out there now. we will see more fog that coast and a bit of a warm up for tomorrow. communities... america

no supreme court decision, and no armor, this is a key industry after the civil war. new supreme court decision or known national market rescinding so important. another decision that is very relevant today, one that interpret the 14th amendment and intended to give the freed slaves a full set of rights. that was applied to corporations probe the supreme court even with our explaining why simply decided the corporation are people giving a full set and allow them to extend their power to create a national market. which made america great. house you can around states' rights in the tradition of individual rights? without the supreme court decisions we would not have the national market. >> host: how did people react or adhere to the supreme court decisions? if you are an ohio? >> ruutu that i talked about there was very little reaction even though it defied along standing set of obligations that should be regulated. there's a lot of protests by local butchers that are not happy of the national meet processors but the court system had a mechanism that was called the dist

areas, and we have saved countless lives to these armor kits. we get many thanks for this. from the husband, from the wise thinking for saving our kids. a direct hit but nothing happened to the people in them because of these kids. we also, there's a startup company in jerusalem which developed a high-tech bandage, internal pressure system that applies pressure to a fresh wound and stops bleeding. and unfortunately one of these bandages was in the medical kit of the swat team in tucson, arizona, on that terrible day when the congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot. and immunity apply this bandage your head wound and the stop the bleeding and saved her life. we have provided 1 million of these bandages to u.s. fighting forces. so far. we're saving lives. we are saving, we're engaged together with humanitarian missions around the world. israel is the first on the ground with a -- medical team in haiti. we got there because our team was flown in by the u.s. military, and our team slept in the u.s. embassy overnight for a couple days so they could

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he does not have any protective equipment, armor whatsoever.no electronics, and his tool of choice is a kabob skewer. >> reporter: this is my duty he says. the refugees must have a safe place to escape to. he doesn't know what to do with the land mines he's unearthed. he's not trained to destroy them, so he hides them, once again, under the trees. he may be one of the bravest men you'll ever meet. >> ivan watson joins me. what's so remarkable about the story, it tells a larger story of what's been going on in syria, we've seen so many people who don't have training. this man is not a trained de-miner. the people who have been taking youtube videos are not trained journalists. the people who have been protesting have no experience protesting. they've grown up with repression their entire lives, and yet they have been able to put this regime on its heels despite all the experts who early on a month into this were saying there's no way the assad regime is going to fall. it could fall because of people like him. >> that's right. this is true grassr

so i agree with you it's good armor. when machinery says the president has been weak, they can just point to bin laden. but a proactive case for reelection, i'm not sure what kind of leg it's has. >> michael let me ask you to finish up this question. economic boom in the late summer could blow romney out of the saddle. anything about his personal life would be lad. we don't know what's there yet. why does the president get more credit, if you will, at the ballot box and the polling for getting the guy that w. was never interested in getting and he got him and nailed him. >> i think there has been a fairly effective job done by the president's opponents that want to say the predicate was put in place by the push administration. as far back as 2007, senator barack obama was saying i'll go even into pakistan if that's what it will take. and he was ridiculed for it by senator mccain and even joe biden that wanted to portray him as being naive. and look, at a minimum, he has neutralized what is normally a trump card, no pun i

they came up with an ingenious idea of making a do-it-yourself instant of armor -- instant armoring kit. they have armored about 20,000 military vehicles serving in a war areas. we have saved countless lives, and we get a the thank-you letters from the parents, the husbands, wives, thank you for saving our kids with this vehicle that could directly -- but nothing thit but hit happened. there is an internal pressure system that applies pressure to a wound and stops bleeding. one of these bandages was in the medical kit of the swat team on that terrible they were congress -- or we applied 1 million of these bandages to the u.s. fighting force. we are engaged together with humanitarian missions around the world. israel was the first on the ground with a medical team had in the earthquake stricken haiti. our team was flown in by the u.s. military. as we have done the same with u.s and turkey, we have been involved with famine relief in somalia, talking about not just fighting famines. we are engaged with the united states and, women's empowerment , it falls under the rubric of the alliance

how about gps or body armor? they took all the body armor in iraq and moved it to afghanistan. in iraq, most of what you are doing is driving around all day. you can have a massive body armor kit on you if you are sitting in a vehicle. you can hold a lot more weight. if you are in afghanistan at 15,000 feet elevation walking up bridge lines and down valleys, you are on foot. we have deployed the modern body armor to units that have not got it. the same with gps. we had gps for special forces. they were the same ones issued in 2003. they have gps, but it is broken. host: does it incorporate their gps in the current system? guest: i am not going to sit around and not let these guys have gps. in afghanistan, there are times you would rather have gps than anything. there are not roads in some places. you need this type of support. to say there is a process in place, and get this. sometimes you will have someone at a certain level say we do not need this and this is taken care. tell that to the dark on the ground who says i need this. because of my background, i am able to verify th