the southern army out here, which will become the army of the -- the army of tennessee, army of tennessee, they're not going to -- that initial core of experience is gone. the combat experience they had here at ft. donelson is locked away in a union prison camp for six months. so it's shiloh because confederates lost 16,000 guys to their army, shiloh was this close of a victory for the south. could you imagine if you threw 16,000 more confederates on that. what would have happened at the battle of shiloh. they were denied. it could have gone the other way. another ft. donelson legacy. i'm going to badger this point. donelson campaign was so pivotal and it kind of breaks my heart that it's not as remembered as it should be. lessons for today. if you look at ft. donelson campaign, a lot of studies for command. command and control personalities. ft. donelson campaign makes it a fun campaign to study, looking at the personalities, on the union side, they had more of a traditional unified command. you had general hallic, in st. louis, commander in charge of the west. commander in charge of exp

for 12.3% of the army's base budget, the articly national guard provides 39% of the army's operating forces. our soldiers represent nearly every zip code in the nation. they play a vital role as department of defense first responder for natural disasters and terroristing attacks on our soil. in 2009 it was the citizen soldiers who provided 900,000 duty days of support to communes across our nation. that's the second largest domestic response since 9/11. since hurricane katrina. we are attributing skilled soldiers and future leaders. with the nation at war as a backdrop, our year to date enlistment rate for fy 12 is in excess of 9 5%. but our retention rate exceeds 130%. we are meeting our authorized end strength of 358,000. the army national guard is equipping to meet 21st century challenges through your support of the necessary resourcing for modernization. our 28 brigade combat teams that include one striker brigade, and our two special forces groups are well equipped. we understand our readiness level, however is dependent on the level of resourcing that we receive. the overall ar

and over the course of the morning, johnston is able to maneuver half his army, half of the army, eight of the 16 brigades are maneuvered to a point directly opposite prentiss's division. that's an overwhelming mass. now four of the eight brigade also be in direct contact with prentiss. the rest of them will move up into support and be in supporting distance. but it shows the sweep, the turn that johnston is as he is trying to cut grant's retreat to the river. because it's clear that johnston believes that prentiss is the left flank elements of the union army. and the reason we now know that apparently johnston believed that is the realization that the confederate leaders understood the union army to be facing west as opposed to south. in other words, when the confederates planned the attack, planned the offensive, it is with an understanding that the union forces are west of pittsburgh landing and facing west. because the confederates believed that corinth is further west than it is south from pittsburgh landsing. they have a slight miscalculation in their understanding of the geograph

discussed how the army is shifting resources and the army's decision to expand training. this is about a half an hour. >> sorry about that. >>> well, i want to talk about three or four minutes and open it up to questions that you might have. i really want to start off by reminding everybody that today the united states army remains committed. we have 92,000 soldiers currently deployed in support of operations. 68,000 of those are in afghanistan. as you know the president and the secretary of defense provided new strategic guidance to focus our efforts on the beginning of the year. the guidance was clear, very collaborative. more than ten years of fighting two large scale operations. the army clearly is moving inside a frame of transition over the next five, six, seven years. it's important to me that we continue to apply the lessens. we will be leaner and more agile army that is a versatile and ready component of the joint force. our charter will remain to be the best trained, to be decisive for a broad range of missions. in today's increasingly uncertain and complex stra

the army also completed a senior leader assessment of the idez insulations across the army. this identified specific actions required to enhance and standardize performance across the army. the navy and marine corps added ten doctors and 37 case managers to the medical evaluation board staff this year and anticipate 23 more doctors next year. physical evaluation board staffs increased in navy and marine corps by 47% allowing them to process 75% of the navy and 69% of the marine cases through this particular phase in less than the 120-day phase goal. the air force started to utilize air force national guard personnel to support the evaluation process and establish a preidez screening process to increase efficiency. they have removed policy impetments. examples include, reducing minimum and formal physical evaluation board staffing requirements from three members to two members. authorizing psychologists to sign medical evaluation boards. prior, they were not able to. allowing military departments to process initial trainees through the legacy system. addition nally, d.o.d. is

the army of amateurs. they failed to learn the lessons of pic discharge or petersburg, 1914 the europeans and jumping up out of trenches charging across open fields and now there is machine guns and barbwire. they are slaughtered. 60,000 on the first day. human beings to not like to learn lessons. nine of us to. but the europeans refused one uses the railroads and incredibly strategic movement of the union forces. back and forth. companies see from pennsylvania managed to fight carolina, virginia, box bill, vicksburg back in time for the overland campaign. a lot is a real movement. some of that was reporting by journalist when of the reasons mead is not better remembered he had no time for journalist. 1864, a journalist bios a pat me false report. mead has the journalist put to back words. they rally around their own. hot they make a compact not to mention in mead unless it is unfavorable. he is written now and alienated their journalist. the southern general's are jealous. i have been interested in mead.

but stopped short of occupying a security early in august the army moved into the city and establish control over it and they've been demonstrations are continuing the army and the police are present there to prevent the protesters from accessing major squares in the streets with the protesters to throw stones at the police from time to time but it's a sort of intifada what if these rallies are a very moving and exciting event but they never turn violent so the army does not have to respond although the media often say that the police opened fire on protesters and if it's not true at least i mean i have never seen any use of weapons there and of the homes and other historical center of discontent has become the fighting ground for many armed rebel groups you know you know so i was there with the residents of homs i would call the members of the civil opposition that these were ordinary people who took up any weapons they could find and defended their neighborhoods from the army in fact they were very badly aren't as you however along with this civil uprising we have witnessed a much

grant's army encamped immediately to their north. because that's the number one threat on the runway, so to speak. its closest. it's the most immediate. at any given day they could march out against the railroads and sever them. so they have to neutralize grant. and that's what brings on the battle of shiloh. they believe they have to strike grant before buell arrives because they knew that buell was marching overland. their intelligence kept them informed of his daily progress. so in the first week of april of 1862, although the concentration isn't fully complete. johnson doesn't have all the elements of the western confederate army that he believes he needs to successfully mount a counterstroke, he will be urged by subordinates that time is now to go because of the near proximity of bell to the tennessee river. and he will decide on the night of april 2nd to put the army into motion and attack grant. it's clear by looking at the confederate battle plan and timeline that they planned to march in one day, april 3rd and attack grant o

like was said, they are indispensable because our army can't do what it does without our army reserve. we are an indispensable force for them. and so i just use him as the symbol of why i'm here. and i'll like forward to your questions, sir. >> thank you for your service to our nation. just want to tell you we're very proud of you. so, please, be recognized. [ applause ] >> i think an important partner is your wife. [ applause ] >> and i'll now call upon the general of the marines, general hummer. >> thank you very much, chairman inouye. vice chairman cochran and members of this committee. it's an honor and a privilege to speak with you here today on behalf of your united states marine corps reserve. mr. chairman, we welcome your leadership and your support. the subcommittee's continued unwavering support for marine corps reserve and its associated programs enables marines and sailors to professionally and competently perform in an operational capacity and is greatly appreciated. with me today and i'd ask them to stand up, my two senior enlisted advisers and leaders, sergeant major ja

my concern, i guess, would be that as the army is going through restructure and as the army has announced they're drawing down over a period of years, i think that's going to lead us to make some equipping decisions for the future that might say we can delay some modernization until we can say what the forestructure looks like, and i can't afford to wait because my soldiers need equipment today. and it's probably a smart thing to do in some cases f. we're going to draw down units in the active force that have modern equipment, then it would cascade to me, and i would have that modern equipment so the army might say we're not going to go buy more. we'll just give you what we have in the active when we do away with those units. however, that's going to be several years down the road. and i can't afford to wait. that's why the ngrea funding that you give us is so critical because if the army says we're not going to buy any more modernized trucks, for instance, because we're going to probably take some of the active trucks and give them to you in 2016, i can go ahead and buy some today and pu

army is committed to pouring out of the country by december the police and the iraqi army will step into a choose. these traffic jams are an indicator of peace in iraq the city seems revived with businesses springing up once again and residents doing their shopping in the city center. a city center that is returning to its pre-war opulence. but is the war really over though the situation in baghdad has improved other cities have been tossed into the garbage saluja for instance my parents' hometown after the war the city was totally cut off only the inhabitants had the right to come and go freely. but i have family and friends there and i speak iraqi arabic i make contact with a friend in fallujah. chemistry quite close to the statue i'll come pick you up and we'll go wherever you want. to. this is eunice he's thirty two years old a former football player for now unemployed. i first met him while doing a news report four years ago it was he who called my attention to these seriously deformed babies he came to baghdad to fetch me because it's not possible for me to get a flu shot without h

including grand parade in red square to on of the red army's epic efforts sixty seven years ago. a brand new russian passenger plane the sukhoi superjet one hundred. goes missing during a demonstration flight in indonesia with fifty people on board it dropped off the radar. as it may have crashed a search operation is underway. ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko was moved to a hospital from a prison to address concerns over her treatment he has already. pulled out in protest over his situation. more on those stories in full in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime his unit with the latest action from the world of sport. head over the next ten minutes including. a head to head in the europa league later tonight. remembering the russian football legend. to pay their respects to those who died during the second world war. and defending champion. opening. a challenging day on court. football first where we have a brand new name on the russian cup being left to celebrate their first ever triumph in the competition following victory over moscow after twelve months of a

on the front ranging from the black sea to the baltic from the volga all the way to berlin the red army turned the tide and pushed them all the way back until an armistice was eventually signed and it's that the marking of that achievement and both sacrifices that this is all about early on in the day here a red square there was a large military parade fourteen thousand troops marched through accompanied by more than tanks aircraft flying flags and nuclear missiles which were paraded through the capital that parade watched by president vladimir putin and prime minister dmitri medvedev those two having swapped jobs also veterans came out as well obviously all of this is designed to try and mimic what was what was done in one nine hundred forty five in the victory parade then the veterans were there then and there is a dwindling number of them now those that remember those dark days firsthand and there was also the laying of a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier against the kremlin walls there's an awful lot of young people joy. joining in the celebrations and you'll also see a lawf

i'm also pleased that the army and marine corps -- i'm also pleased that the army and marine corps has funded facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization at the 90% level, which is the dod's stated goal. unfortunately, the air force and navy funded this same fsrm at 82% and 80% respectively. i'd like to hear from the air force and the navy what level of risk they are taking on as a result of these lower funding levels and what steps they plan to take to avoid large bills down the road. finally, we have learned the department of defense will face at least a $1.3 billion bill as a result of the rise in fuel prices. this price increase has been exacerbated by the continued closure of the pakistan border, forcing supply convoys for our force in afghanistan to use the northern distribution network at an increased expense of about $38 million per month. given all of these challenges we face, we must strive to protect our readiness accounts, but we can also do a better job in managing funds like operation and maintenance. we can improve the execution rates and unobligated balances i

grant, don carlos buell, and the united states army the next morning. pittsburgh landing area and grant's last line to discuss the second day fighting here at shiloh. throughout the history of the battle, second day has kind of got shortened on any major discussion or interpretation. primarily, that has a great deal to do with the fact that overnight, grant received sizeable reinforcement. you know, johnston was hoping to do battle before buell had arrived. well, unbeknownst to johnston, buell had arrived. in fact, buell's advance division had reached savannah, tennessee, on april the 5th. he had not simply arrived at pittsburgh landing, but he had made the juncture with grant and was in striking distance of reinforcing grant as long as grant held access to pittsburgh landing and the ability to get troops across the river. buell actually comes in on steam boat. meanwhile, nelson's crossing over land to a point opposite, and the remainder of buell's column is slowly filing into savannah. they're not all going to be able to march down. it's clearly eviden

army? and if this is two-thirds of johnston's force against half, that leaves only what? the smaller proportion of his army against what is the other half of the union army, and that other half constitutes grant's center and true left flank. we're almost two miles from the crossroads north of shiloh church. that brings us all the way over what is the true union left flank representing grant's army of the tennessee. and this is colonel david stewart's brigade of sherman's fif ktd division. stewart had been detached throughout the encampment period. sherman was the first division to occupy. he was over here guarding the hamburg road from hamburg landing, which is four river miles upstream from pittsburgh landing. so this is where his brigade will fight the battle detached from its mother division. prentiss' camps were roughly a mile or a little over from the southwest -- or to our southwest by about a mile. so that will give you a sense of where prentiss' camps were in relationship to stewart

army in 2004. i am returning my medal today because under the guise of freedom and democracy, i stole the freedom away from the iraqi people. we are on the right side of history. >> i served in the u.s. marine corps from 2001 through 2006, iraq twice. i am turning in my campaign service medal and a global war on terror service and expeditionary medal or all of my brothers and sisters suffering from traumatic brain injury, ptsd, and sexual problems. >> my name is brian. i am from kentucky. i am a former sergeant of the u.s. army. proud member of iraq veterans against the war. i am taking all of these off. i encourage you. >> i have not been to convince of anything over the last seven years except for the fact that i am hurting. i have three daughters. i am convinced, looking across this crowd of people, that my daughters will have peace. >> my name is jack. i am an iraq war veteran from milwaukee, wisconsin. i am giving back my medals today because i feel like i was duped into an illegal war that wa

>> in essence, that's what the army is doing at this point. and we're going to take the lessons learned, as i indicated to senator murray. >> and what about the other branchs of services? >> across the other branches. >> a large number of the ones who were misdiagnosis order had their diagnosis changed inaccurately were after 2008, after the forensic psychology system was put in place. >> okay. i appreciate that. i just -- i mean we get -- we get a lot of calls on this kind of stuff. and although i appreciate folks calling their senator to get this squared away, what it tells me is there is an inherent problem here. and so -- and then when you combine that with the fact that we've got missed diagnosis over 50%, we've got to -- i mean that's not acceptable. it's got to be fixed. and if it's a fact that we bring in a forensic psychologist and that fixes the problem, that tells me and we're talking one person, right? >> actually, that was the issue was adding that additional layer. that's when the initial diagnosis were changed. and then we had a

the army funds those improvements out of the base budget. and as we continue down the road, i think the appropriate needs will be met by the army budget for camp shelby and several other predominantly army national guard camps and stations that are used as power projection platforms. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator alexander? >> thanks, mr. chairman. thank you for being here. i want to ask about the announcement in february about replacing the c-5as with c-17s, which was part of the comprehensive reorganization of air force resources. the house defense authorization bill includes a provision that would put that restructuring plan on hold for a year. so i understand. and i want to try to understand from you, general wyatt, if i can, what the consequences of that are. specifically, the idea as you went through these difficult budget decisions was to replace the c 5as which are expensive to maintain and which aren't mission ready much of the time with c-17s. the idea would be that would save a lot of money and produce a more e

across the army. this assessment identified specific actions required to enhance and standardize performance across the army. the navy and marine corpses have added ten doctors and 37 case managers to their medical evaluation staff last year and anticipate the addition of 23 more doctors next year. physical evaluation board staffs increased in both navy and marine corps by 47% allowing them to process 75% naeft avy a% of the marine corps in this particular phase in less than the 120-day phase goal. the air force is also leaned forward and started to utilize air force national guard personnel ta-to-support the process and an eligibility screening process, again to increase efficiency. also removing policy impediments, implemented procedural improvements and enhanced oversight and and april surface to the services. reducing minimal and physical i valuation staffing boards from three members to two members. authorizing doctoral level psychologists to sign medical evaluation boards. prior they not abe to.

or to command commanders of armies. he never doubted his own military ability or judgment. and directing the confederate war efforts, davis adopted hands-on tactics, his own predilection, as well as his sense of duty involved in all aspects of confederate military from the trivial to the deadly serious. his administrative style dated back to his time as the u.s. secretary of war, and then presiding over a small establishment, he wanted to know about everything and to see every document. he brought the same practice to the confederate presidency. nothing changed, not even by 1862 when he was directing a great war. the minutia that regularly occupied his attention boggles the mind. we know he saw these items because he has endorsements on all these kinds of documents. what kinds of documents? whether to send two pieces of artillery to the navy or to charleston -- the defenses to charleston. whether a captain wanted to transfer from virginia to the mississippi valley, whether it should be given him. he looked at these kind

for 12.3% of the army's base budget, the army national guard provides 39% of the armies operating forces. our soldiers represent nearly every zip code in the nation. they played a vital role in the department of defense first responders for national disasters and terrorist attacks on our sorrow. today's army national guard soldiers continue the proud tradition of service to their states and to our nation. in 2011 alone, it was the citizen soldiers who provided 900,000 duty days in support to communities across our nation. that is the second-largest domestic response since 9/11 -- since hurricane katrina. we are attracting skilled soldiers and future leaders. with the nation at war as a backdrop, our year to date enlistment rate for fiscal year 2012 is in excess of 95%. our retention rate exceeds 130%. we are meeting our authorized strength of 58,000. national guard is equipping to be 21st century challenges for your support of the necessary resources and for modernization. our 28 brigade combat teams that include one striker brigade, are combat aviation brigades, and our special forces g

putnam was there with 50 men, the british army in new brunswick and the rest of the american army is at morristown. so the bulk of the british army could come down and squash him in an instant, if he wanted to. there is a british officer who was wounded very badly at the battle of princeton. was not expected to live. asked for permission to have a british officer come out of new brunswick, take his last will and testament. agreed, but insisted it had to be done at night. what putnam dp is, in all the empty houses, he put candles to make them look like they were occupied. he then had his 50 soldiers march past the house where the last will and testament was being taken. sometimes one, two at a time. sometimes six at a time. sometimes a dozen. sometimes all 50. when he goes back to brunswick, he reports that putnam is in princeton with 4,000 soldiers. instead of the 50 he really had. okay? bakery boards for spies. washington likes to make up fake reports and send demands to british headquarters here in new york. he did so well that amp the battle of brandywine in pennsylvania, they cap

and to send taylor's army to conquer northern mexico. this was taylor's army. when mexico still refused to concede after he did this, polk opened the second front down here at very -- varian cruz. more than 08 ships, more than p -- 80 ships, more than 10,000 crews. vera cruise surrendererred. scott embarked on his famous march to montezuma, 260 miles away. interestingly, the duke of wellington who was the victor after waterloo, kept a wall map of the campaign in his study and followed scott's campaign. he thought scott was just the greatest general of his time, which he was. polk wanted to be president of the whole country, not a partisan president. but he was a democrat to the core. he worked hard to prevent scott and taylor who were both whigs from reaping any political profit from the war. there was reason for this. george washington, andrew jackson and william henry harrison had all been generals who became presidents. but in the process, polk made enemies of both his generals. yet he congratulated himself on remaining nonpartisan. his efforts failed to pre

you see the air guard or army guard on the side of the car. you do that in areas i think where the potential for recruiting is very high. a lot of attention to that sport. i don't like to micromanage and tell you to spend this here and that there, but is this instilling a value to you in terms of recruiting and what gains you may get from it, or is this something that time has come and gone? >> it's really a matter of branding and being associated with a national brand. we do get recruits and we do run recruiting booths at sporting events, both motorsports and other sports. if you -- people don't necessarily buy tide laundry detergent because of the race car that sports the tide hood. but they do associate that product at a national level. and the army national guard, because of the target audience that we're looking at for our band of recruits, that is an interest to those people, and they see -- when they watch sports on television, they see army national guard, it's a national branding opportunity that is of great value. and the fact that t

>> the army has