the army nurse was there.d bombs] cheryl: punch bowls, pork chop heels, heart break ridge, colorful names from the colorless korean war, where there was one army nurse when the fighting started. within two weeks, there were 57. before it was over, the corps grew to 5500. 10% of them saw duty in the cold and the wind, the heat and the mud. one wouldn't find this type of clothing along fifth avenue, but then, these nurses weren't in korea to put on a fashion show. they were there to care for the ceaseless flow of wounded men. as they went about their duties, no one cared about their attire. as one war correspondent put it, they walked in duty. ♪ cheryl: when there was a lull in the fighting, that meant there was a chance to serve the community, but these residents refused. there was a greater need for their skill and stamina. as one commanding officer wrote, "when all hope ebbed, each remained compassionate because it was often the last thing on earth the soldiers saw." and today, once again, they are answering

the army nurse was there.ds of gunfire and bombs] pork chop, heart break ridge, colorful names from colorless korean war. where there was one army nurse started,fighting within two weeks, there were 57. , the corpsas over grew to 5500. they saw duty in the cold and wind, the heat and the mud. one wouldn't find this type of along fifth avenue. but then these nurses weren't in korea to put on a fashion show. for thee there to care flow of wounded men. as they went about their duties, one cared about their attire. as one war correspondent put it, in duty.ed when there was a lull in the fighting, that meant there was a chance to serve the community. but these residents refused. there was a greater need for stamina, as one commanding officer wrote, when hope ebbed, each remained compassionate because it was the last thing on earth the soldiers saw. today, once again, they are to arms. the call our soldiers are fighting in far-off vietnam, where the of warng and injuries are made even more difficult because of the c

army. i will read a quick conclusion, i doubt it. army ended in 1973. on all, the commission volunteer army was formed. they were studying this issue and one of the commission members took note that the volunteer army would be ok and we could probably work during periods of peace, but in a period of conflict, would likely not work. that was an academic point until a day in september of 2001. the flight that took off and crashed in pennsylvania. plane,ot folks on that but by the time i landed in alabama, i knew the united states was in some kind of difficulty. my mom called me. ton i got to a burger king get breakfast, a plane had just landed and i didn't know it, but all planes were being grounded. she said i am so glad i got a hold of you and you are still alive. i said, ok? my mom doesn't call every day, so it was unusual. i said why wouldn't i be alive? she said well, we thought you were at the pentagon today and we thought you might have been and that plane attack on the pentagon which

army. advisor for the secretary for he is the principaladvisor for the secretary for training, readiness, mobilization, military health affairs, equal opportunity, and marketing among others, which makes it striking that he has found time to come and talk to us today. we are very grateful for that. dr. wardynski is a 1980 graduate at the u.s. military academy. he holds a master of public policy from harvard university. and a phd in policy announcement -- analysis from graduate school. during his 30 year army career, he served as a special weapons officer in germany, the united states, and korea. he spent 10 years as an associate professor at west point where he was the director of the u.s. army's office of economic and manpower analysis advising senior army , leaders on talent management, officer retention and marketing. my favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the state-of-the-art american army game, which serve as a key recruiting tool for the service, as well as the virt

army. -- how the army operates today. difficult toery bring the draft back. you can see the structure of the army. that is the guard, the reserve, and the active component. the reserve is closely linked to the active army in that the chief of staff, the army and i have a great control over it. how is funded and structured and all of that. the 54 other armies. that comprise the national guard. they typically belong to the governors. there is strong authority over .hem with regard to doctrine you can see in the time of vietnam, this is an army about a lot of medicine and their things like that. total,can see, the army the active is not that large. as you can imagine, that means the active requires the ongoing collaboration and participation of the other two components. it is not an accident. at the end of vietnam for a lot the army had put a and it delivered a tax on the young for a short. of history. i think there have been about 30 or 40 years of drafts. in the normal course of affairs, we

the army was understaffed. 200,000 soldiers totaled in the army at this point. marshall determine it might be time to build up the army. after the first series of exercises, marshall and the president go to congress and nact this service act and bring 900,000 draftees into the army, and also activating the national guard. initially marshall has a large number of soldiers to train. they are only in the army for a year. their term of enlistment is almost up, and nobody is more excited than the soldiers themselves. the louisiana maneuvers of 1941 were fundamentally different. excuse me. onshall's insistence perforation and realistic training had paid off. that herepeatedly wanted mistakes made in louisiana rather than in europe. of 1941 exercises consisted 400,000 service members. twice the number that was in the army the year before. have 19 divisions actively out there participating in these wargames. the wargames are over in 1941. we are well on our way to creating a much better army. our army is about to go away with the expiration of the selective service act.

army. president johnson and the congress in june of 1967 decide to end almost graduate school draft performance -- deferments. 1968,as until july of from july of 1968 to july of 1972 109,777 college graduates either enlisted or were drafted into the u.s. army. total of 8.2% of all male non-prior service successions in these years. , just tome slides here give you some statistics for the framework. there are no bullet points at all in this presentation. of 1968, some college graduates were in the ranks, most notably oliver stone. but they were outnumbered by men with some college and by high school graduates, and you can see this in the two fiscal years before. and the fiscal years during the war ran from one july to 30 june, not the same periods we have today. you can see high school graduates are the biggest one for both years. this was the point of pride inside the defense department, particularly in the army. this was the best educated enlisted -- enlistment force fielded today. when the

army. this signaled opportunity for emancipation, paid work and social dignity than military service could provide for oppressed people groups. in addition to missing the richness of such military studies, some academics, particularly since the vietnam war have proclaimed the military historian aging the list of results for by studying -- a jingoist who exalts war by studying it. in a view of this critic only studies -- thus a military historian could say, tell the story of soldier atrocities, rape, massacres and treachery, but not conventional or mainstream experiences were -- in which soldiers obeyed limits and accomplished military and sociopolitical goals. this approach not only sidelines majority experiences but also overlooks the american military's goals of promoting -- leading role in promoting social change such as racial integration, social welfare and higher education. at the same time that military history has suffered calumny, it has remained esteemed in the public sphere with

secretary of the army mark esper. thank you for joining us and my sincere thanks for being here in an effort to welcome the atlanta board members. the series began in 2009, top military and defense leaders have come to shape the security debate on america's role in the world. we celebrate the 10th anniversary of this series and it is pertinent to the rapidly changing security environment we now face. at the atlanta council we are involved in issues of us engagement and leadership in the world, one of the core pillars of our work focusing on navigating great power competition in the 21st century. in particular our center for strategy and security focuses on sustainable, nonpartisan strategies. the center seeks to honor general scowcroft's legacy and bipartisan commitment to the cause of security and leadership and cooperation with allies and partners and mentorship of the next generation of leaders. i'm glad to see you here today. as many of you know the us national security strategy and national defense strategy, the

who commanded the armies. to gary w. gallagher's account, the front pages of 80% of "harper's weekly," a premier illustrated newspaper featured a , military topic or leader. generals were the celebrities of the villains of the time. their successes and failures affected army and civilian morale and commitment to the war effort. a chief example of this was robert e. lee and his army of northern virginia, which together became the locus of nationalism for a country that basically only existed in wartime. as gallagher argues, the slate -- the slave owners of his army proved most nationalistic of all confederates, using letters home, battlefield victories and reinvestment to "propel loyalty among citizens and soldiers throughout the confederacy." based on scholar joseph ladder's lee'stical portrait of army, one in 10 army of virginia soldiers owned slaves in 1861. when you count those who lived with slaveowning family members, soldiers of the army of northern virginia were 42% more likely than the average confeder

so there is montgomery's 21st army group, bradley's 12th army group, and devers' 6th army group. in all, the allies had 87 divisions and 6000 tanks. the germans had 50-some divisions and like 1500 tanks. so eisenhower said they needed more combat power. there are more lodges stations ticians logis responsible, in other words, more people responsible for supply in world war ii than there are combat soldiers. even though he has got 1.5 million soldiers in europe, only about 350,000 are actually combat soldiers, if that tells you how much stuff an army consumes. and so he starts flipping the logistics companies of typist, mechanics, cooks, starts sending those guys to the front to be infantrymen. the allies beat back the german offensive in the ardennes that had begun on september 16, effectively breaking the back of the german army. however, the british had one more opportunity to annoy marshall and eisenhower. and that is when british newspapers, for some mysterious reason, begin to attribute all of the success to general montgomery's 21st army group. the papers hardly mentioned p

army in 1969. he gives a short talk about vietnam and the positive outlook in vietnam, this is october 969. he focuses in this talk on race. hat does two things. first, it makes race of focus of command attention, because he says this is a problem we have to solve. the second thing he did was probably more significant. he calls for a shift from colorblind to raise consciousness. a negro in uniform does not cease to be a negro, he becomes a negro in uniform instead. how does this translate to vietnam? records from the inside suggest there were a lot of resources devoted to the problem of race hat was growing. a lot of fact-finding trips, and evaluations. also, committees would be formed. but nonetheless they did pay attention. as army leaders sought solutions, people and local command or even junior officers often found themselves having no choice but to -- what happened here? oh well. i got lost. this is the soul brothers, had some problem with the spelling. they said if you don't stop effing with

there the army and navy nurses. we had some 81 women that were taken prisoner of war by the japanese. they were held in the philippines for almost 3 years. in the medical field, primarily nurses. one of the pieces that we have that speaks to that is this clothespin. what they told us in stories and oral histories is they were on their own, to gather their own food and rig different items that they would need to use on a daily basis. this one happens to be a clothespin that they whittled and donated to us. it kind of illustrates some of the things they had to do. >> certain things with these nurses, every one of them came home. while they were in kapp to betty, he continued to nurse. they nursed fellow prisoners. military and civilians. one of the last ladies, she lived in new jersey. she passed away a few years ago. we were fortunate to meet her and be able to learn some of the things that she did and what she had to do to live. as a prisoner. when she came home, she had lifelong issues with teeth and dental issues

in this portion army col. chad skaggs is interviewed about a new report intended to guide the us air and missile defense strategy through 2028. this is hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. >> okay folks. thanks for coming out today. this should be a good conversation and a fun exchange. my name is tom karako and direct the missile-defense project. before we get into things, i will say just in case we have something pop up, missiles fired or something like that, look to me and i will direct you either down the front stairs or at the back. we're not expecting anything like that but just in case we will do one of those couple of routes. we are very pleased to have with us today to talk about the new army air and missile defense 2028 col. chad skaggs. col. skaggs is the chief for air mission missile-defense integration for the u.s. army space and missile defense command, and army forces strategic command. his division coordinated the effort to put together this strategy document so he's th

general formica spent 36 years in the army, had a number of posts in the army. his final assignment, of course, was the commanding general of space and missile defense command. so i'm going to turn things over to him. before i do that, i also want to recognize senator john warner. i appreciate you here, sir. we have seen you here at our events before. thank you very much for coming out and for your service. so general franco, over to you. >> thanks, tom. and thanks to each much you for being here and those that are online. on behalf of the panel, i say good afternoon. for those of you that had an opportunity to hear it, i want to thank tom charactero and colonel chad scaggs again for that thoughtful discussion on army air and missile defense 2028. i think they provided a great understanding of where the army is headed and how it intends to get there out to 2028. they have identified the need to address the full range of threats to provide a tiered approach to missile defense. we talked about offense and defense integration and the integration of lethal and nonle

did they leave the army, stay in the army, were they jailed? what happened? >> i should mention, the biggest factor besides these women, these ordinary women, the biggest factor was the public. the public got involved. the black press spread the word as far as california, to be self, to the north. people knew about it, white and black. to the public, men, women, white and black, everyone was riding into the war department. the war department had to take action. it was convoluted. they remained orderlies. so you can read this book and say, well, nothing really changed. but things did change. attention of the their higher brow spirit before they could not get the attention of the local lieutenant. now the war department, the secretary of war. president roosevelt knew who they were. so did his wife eleanor. more or less the godmother of the wac's. it did make a difference. even though these women were returned back to their duties, their grievances were heard. it did not change a lot for them automatically, that it really made a difference for other black women

you can see the army doing good work there for sure. obviously in europe but also the pacific, as part of a joint force trying to think through these talent sites as they present these now. it is a question for the entire front forces and department, which i cannot answer today -- are we doing this at the scale and speed and seriousness and ability to bridge adaptation of what we find -- are we doing that experiment reputation as we should be? i am suspicious that we are not. i welcome being told we are proven wrong about that. but it starts there, and it leads you to the technology piece. what begins and what follows is always a unique and not always one way or another. but by and large, the concept has to be worked out with the technology before we know what exactly we want to invest in. i also suspect it is about a range of facts -- bets, and those bets are even more in the the procurement realm. i think the allies these comes important because of what we are talking about. more --l, et cetera, whether -- we just have to be thoughtfu

well i think one of the issues that is defining what is the army the army right now is made up of many different factions jostling for power between themselves and even that in itself makes it difficult to know who is a genuine partner and who is a foe. we definitely do not accuse the army of orchestrating it directly but elements within it we don't say the top leadership but there have been similar incidents last week in a similar incident happened but this has got fired up on before that also went on for and so there seems to be a pattern of getting rid of this protest movement or at least trimming it down and then maybe having a sort of what i'd call a weekend or enfeebled civilian transformation that can be managed and control and that's the issue that we're facing right now. having actions just over there so i guess in khartoum is saying. a we can feel transitional government might be beneficial to the army but there are regional implications they will eat i want to bring you in here on the one hand there seems to be qatar and turkey and on the other hand there seems to be the u.a

that has to do with the way the army is viewed and a lot to do with budgetary things when the army claims that the budget was cut drastically and it wasn't until reagan that the budget goes up again. it has to do with getting a handle on the recruits who are coming in, there is still a lot of low quality recruits. there are still category fours coming in and 1970's then there is a problem. there are all kinds of problems. i think it has become a shorthand in a larger debate about the transition to say that problemsolves the about the draft of the end of the vietnam war, that blurs the issues far too much. i think he casts a false narrative about the vietnam war and also about the draft versus the all volunteer force. i am interested in the investment of many people in that story. thank heavens they solved the problem that the draft created. clearly from what we have heard today and from other histories including your own, we know that is not to be true but it is still powerful shorthand for explaining it and of skewers the more difficult issues that need the abfnfronted about and the viet

wacs, army, and navy nurses. one of the pictures i love to point out here is the -- eleanor roosevelt was a great advocate of women serving in the military. so these are the women in the four components who stepped up to be the leaders of the -- of each of the women's components. i think about them -- you know, they came on board. there was no -- there were no uniforms specific to military women. there was no training base. what do you do with them? how do you sign them? what do we do? but these women made it possible for women to serve and contribute in ways that had never been done before. we have to be forever grateful for their service and their commitment to women serving and certainly to the nation. >> the women's army corps is an integral part of the army in the united states and its soldiers in every sense of the world perform a full military part in this war. there are hundreds of important military jobs that women can perform as effectively as men. in fact, we find that they can do some of these jobs mu

army learning as they went on. so, what this report does in great detail as i got a snapshot of on the ground, once military officers were willing to share with us. initially they saw us as the enemy tearing down what they were trying to do. i would say after the first year or year and a half, especially as some of them started cycling back in, there was and said that the pentagon wasn't listening to deadly effect and i started getting a lot more sources. what this report shows is that the army is willing to give itself a harsh grade and put out something like this is a cautionary tale to send us to the war yes so a critique of the finished work also shows that i would love to know what was happening in some of the places where he just had to say and he did this and all he can surmise and despite him writing a book, there are more questions to be answered. to me the work shows that this idea that you can have a short sharp wind of a war is not fiction. i've seen work since well in the past three or four years that

he defeated two armies in mississippi in 1862. he provided a badly needed and bloody victory on january 2. 1863 at stones river near murphys road, tennessee. let me say, stones river is the reverse gettysburg. gettysburg has become more important to us than it was at the time, i would argue if you read the sources and the political leaders in the newspapers, this was a very big deal at the time. it was a very hard point in the war for the union. it was a much needed victory, even if it was not as big as the ones as general grant. he also captured the important railway hub of chattanooga. he even got general james long street to agree to this, as well. so, whatever he could do to furnish reputation. he was a billion -- an engineer, devout christian. but he was not without his flaws. as i am the first to admit as his future biographer, he was very easy to hate. he had a bad temper, smoked incessantly, slept too little, blamed others for his mistakes, arrogant, and unforgiving. worst of all, his self-righteousness made him temperamen

army? about going to have 30,000 hessians. before we go complaining about hessians, where is this coming from? , they are third german. they have that in their background. these folks are mercenaries. they are guns for hire. everybody does this. this is standard european tactics. maybe it looks bad from the colonial side of things, this is the way they operate. look at the numbers. not all of these folks are going to be deployed in the colonies at the same place at the same time. they have that in their background. that, they also have population to draw from. live inmillion people england right now. a lot of folks. 2.75 of those are eligible for service. they have people with which they can replace. the colonies have 2 million folks in all of the colonies. that is including children and slaves. , they have the numbers to go along with this. we have a lot of military, what else have they got that is working for them? >> uniforms, guns, artillery. it is not piecemeal. professor: sure. war, n

that is a different army. that army is decidedly different. it is beginning to ask some questions as they see people getting on the freedom birds and going home, why are we still doing combat operations? ird comes out and says, now we are in a defensive mode. well, it doesn't feel defensive when you are running a patrol against the 33rd regiment. i think that had an impact on morale. the less combat there is, there are people in rear areas, and they got time on their hands. if you just look at the black market numbers, they skyrocket in 1970. everyone, not everyone, is trying to get their take before this thing is over. but there is still a lot of people doing what they are supposed to be doing and they are not involved in these illicit activities et al. -- illicit activities at all, but they see them being allowed to continue and they are involving officers, ncos, enlisted, all ranks. that has got to affect your morale, it has got to make you ask questions about what it is that we are doing here. but you can find that situation in almost any

the army study concludes that the army won the walk iraq war. i don't know that we would necessarily put it that way and i also don't think that's the only important take away of our study. certainly i think the history as we put it together indicates for sure that the iranian risk regime exited, by the time the united states exited operation iraqi freedom in 2011 that the force in iran was put in a much stronger position in the rest of the region than they were in 2003. that is i think very clear. and also, i think the story of the public perception has centered on the way in which it is difficult for the army to actually go the final mile and publish. this was the work ready for publication by 2016 but didn't appear until january 2019. there was a story and a roller coaster of emotions before it actually appeared. but, i think that we would be better served to look at, to engage with the narrative that this team of historians put together using the archival research, the interviews, documentary evidence and so on. i think that's where the real

army? you have to be really, really careful as far as the army is concerned. don't automatically think that these guys know what they are doing, because they don't. the training is going to take a while for all of that. and the same thing as far as your officers and whatnot, there is is a lot of officer, go ahead and call it officer in fighting. who is in charge, who deserves to be in charge? washington is not the most well-like guy in the world. and there are other folks that we don't like that cause problems for him. and poor washington is forever sending petitions to congress to try to help out your continental army, and congress is like, we will get to it someday, whatever. so you run into this sort of thing as well. this is typical army, not everybody gets along. yes, you have the same objectives. everybody has a different way they want to achieve that objective. so this is sometimes a problem as well. what we are going to have our both of these forces in the field at the same time. go

author of " armies in deliverance: a new history of ." talked about southern union's during the civil war. she described efforts to aid the union by a richmond spy and former slaves who joined the union army. this talk was sponsored by that and it -- by the american civil museum's annual symposium at the library of virginia and cohosted by the university of virginia center for civil war history. >> this enterprise we started six years ago it is amazing to think about how much the american civil war museum has grown. it is amazing to think about how much of the american civil war museum has grown. as many of you know we are the combination of the american civil war center and the museum of the confederacy. we brought our strongest resources to create this new institution. there were a lot of people who didn't think we would make it. there were a lot of people who weren't sure if the enterprise could work, but we wrapped ourselves into our mission. our mission is quite simple. we wanted to be the preeminent center for the exploration of the

do you think the army is.

head of the national army. conversely, with a notable exception of those who prematurely pursued slave emancipation, or whose aggressive field generalship earned the presidents's respect and protection, western commanders who urged caution or reconciliation to allow time for slave states with majority unionist populations to reconsider secession and reenter the union. they were replaced. among them, winfield scott, william s. arnie, robert anderson, don carlos buell, and mcclellan himself. all of them proslavery democrats. unlike mcclellan, westerners would make good on such in their own region. in northern missouri, stephen hurlbuta staunch republican. -- a staunch republican, waged war and the initiation that had started in the western part of the state. when his men learned that the deposed speaker of the house was at his home in shelby county, he was arrested and required by the general to dig trenches in the hot sun all day, according to the report. a unionist remarked. he went on to say he set him at it,

than staying in the army. what role did politics play in his getting promoted? his support from secretary treasury chase. i'm struck the fact that grant removes him only after the election of 1864. he has a rather biting comment about him. how did he get there to begin with? grant could have sent him to cincinnati right away. dr. kurtz: my explanation for that is limited, because if you look at grant hitting more angry , he is trying to relieve him even before price gets to missouri could -- misery. -- missouri. i can only surmise that lincoln had something to do with it. it is generally accepted that rosecrans was not put into a position where he could be relieved by something like grant in 1863 in july after the gubernatorial elections and ohio , when he was a big supporter of the republican candidate at the time. he was seen as a useful political tool by the lincoln administration. he was sounded out to be lincoln's vice president in the 1864 election because he was a war democrat with a largely successful

many officers of the society of the army of tennessee. the most decorated in the union western armies met at the leland house. they commemorated the murdered president by celebrating his, or some of his, military force's victory. the coincidence of the meeting thatedication demanded they be prominent among the speakers. besides the vice president and secretary of war, there was the governor and former governor, as well as other noted illinois war generals. john pope, steve appropriate. table, the head of the western generals. the society's current president and demanding general of the army. and george armstrong custer. he complicates nearly everything always. just know that. he was still alive. that is not complicated. neither of their battlefield exploits need introduction, nor do the man sitting next to sherman. current war hero and u.s. president, ulysses s. grant. nearly one decade after the no's end, the nation's eyes longer saw this president exclusively through the lens of war victory. politics hung heavy over the meeting, besiegi

[inaudible conversations] >> air force secretary heather wilson and army secretary mark esper talk about modernizing the armed forces at the meridian international center in washington earlier this week. after their discussion they answered questions from the audience. >> i think we have our service secretaries. joining us. good afternoon welcome to meridian international center. why name is stuart holliday. on the president and ceo. it's a wonderful to see so many wonderful ambassadors here with us today. we're delighted to have you, and thank you for your service to your countries. we are also delighted to have the sectors of the air force and the army here, and barbara starr who will be joining us in just a moment. just a word of introduction about this secret. this is part of our diplomatic insight series that is part of our center for diplomatic engagement where we try to provide a bridge between diplomatic corps, the government sort of what he can do their jobs -- [inaudible] we are also delighted to have the support today of lockheed martin, admiral issue with us today. thank you

soi our recommendations with the army.w the corporation would proceed. so far not a single person has been found. the process of tracing, the process of repairing lists, the process of preparing the databases are things that do take time. over the course of the conflict, the sri lankan military says it lost 30,000 soldiers. a number of divisions were responsible for launching the final offensive ending almost three decades of war. father francis and those who followed him were unquestionably taken into army custody, but the military denies that they could have been victims of a war crimes. what i can tell you is people who have surrendered to the army have not been killed. that is for sure. if it has happened we are there to punish them. the army can't do that. it is illegal. but they also deny they are holding prisoners today.” illegal. but they also deny they are holding prisoners today. i am sure there is no undisclosed place in a sri lanka. people who have been surrendered or captured, terrorists, thinking on that line

critical role in bringing that army to richmond's doorstep. the most cogent summary of her contribution to the war effort comes from the pen of george sharp, chief of military intelligence for the army of the potomac. george sharp would write in a postwar letter, a quite remarkable saying -- "for a long, long time, elizabeth van lew represented all that was left of the power of the u.s. government in the city of richmond." this is a time before women could vote. during postwar reconstruction, van lew was rewarded for this wartime heroism, and indeed the story of her exploits, her espionage becomes widely known when president u.s. grant, in one of his first acts in office, appoints her postmaster of richmond in 1869. this was a plum job, paid well, gave you an opportunity to hire a partisan army of the party faithful, very important political job. needless to say, ex confederates, learning about the extent and scope of this richmond underground, as she is being rewarded, railed against the appointment of a female spy postmastership. van lew has

they lose all of the money of the army, the medicine chest of the army, and morgan once again has hislose on his back and his rifle. as you know, i should hope, the attack on quÉbec was unsuccessful. morgan did not succeed in establishing a 14th colony. benedict arnold, his commander was wounded is literally the first shot out of the box. , the overallomery command of the assault, was killed by very near the second one. were ultimately killed or captured. one story that i will just pretend is true -- it may be true. it is probably true. it sounds true. it should be true. [laughter] dr. zambone: is that morgan refuses to surrender, even though his rifleman begs him to. he is eventually backed up against the wall by the french-canadian militia, which, not long ago, like 15 minutes ago, were shouting "viva la l iberte." wall, is back against the and he wept with rage. the reason i believe this is because morgan often wet, often for rage. he surrendered his weapon to a priest, because he damned if one of you scoundrels will have it." morgan was a very bad prisoner. [laughter] dr. zambone:

army to deploy, fight and win.rankly, in terms of the types of units we are sending down there engineers, military police and others, and the mission they are performing, which is largely the mission they would perform in combat, they are not seeing that readiness yet, as they point out. this is one of the mission that we have to perform. it happens every year whether it's fighting wild fires in california, hurricane relief in puerto rico or texas. we always are out doing some type of emergency work. it is our responsibility to the american people and we manage the risk and manage the units responsibly. ms. starr: you say they do the same thing that they would do if they were in combat. what kind of troops are you talking about when you say that. sec. wilson: engineers putting up obstacles, logisticians delivering supplies from point a to point b, medics providing medical service, those other functions they are doing right now down there. do you foresee it expanding or are you discussing this? sec. esper: i have no

the army decided they did not want the band. i think martha probably reached out to the folks that helped her so much because she said eventually, eleanor roosevelt intervened and they were able to have the band. martha used the g.i. bill. there was a senior fellow at howard as well as various schools on the east coast. she is author of four books. just an extraordinary woman. she is passed away now. after we had dedicated and had programs here, walking up from the metro. i would always see dr. putney, let me come get you. know i can walk she said. her little crooked legs walking up to be part of the ceremony at the women's memorial. >> i know i made a contribution to the women's army corps. i also realize that i learned a lot. it was a tremendous learning experience. >> you can do it online at women's memorial.org. >> we are always happy for donations. we have forms that can be sent or downloaded for people to register. the register itself is not online. for security and privacy, at least until today, we have chosen not to put

says why is the army why as far as you can tell is the army targeting civilians and treating them in this way because the army and the security agencies mentality in egypt is to function outside the law without the slightest judicial oversight and without abiding by local and international human rights low the army takes with it sinai residents as suspects by default this has actually been. an enduring problem sinai residents have been marginalized for decades by successive governments or so they take they take videos and presume them to be jihad is this maltreatment that you allege this is as well as punishment in order to extract information what is the. because it's not just when they suspect they are members of the group it's just even if the suspects are sympathizers to the islamists or just have a relative who joined them as a group or whatever and that arbitrary nature of the arrested over 12000 people in an area that's not densely populated it's less than half a 1000000 people live in north. evicted thousands of families and forcibly evicted them and demolish their homes very

the chief of staff of the army and i testified, we have a million man army, 4000 troops at the border does not have a big impact on the readiness of the army to deploy, fight and win. in terms of the types of units we are sending down there, logistics, engineers, military police and others, and the mission they are performing, which is largely the mission they would perform in combat, we are not seeing a degradation in readiness -- this happens every year. whether it is fighting wildfires in california, hurricane relief in puerto rico or texas, at any point in time we have multiple state guards doing emergency work. this is our responsibility to the american people. we manage the risk and units appropriately. >> you say they're doing the same thing they do as if they were in combat. what kind of troops are you talking about? >> engineers, putting up obstacles, lodger stations delivering supplies. medics, providing medical service. those of the types of functions they are doing down there. >> do you foresee it expanding? are you discussing expansion? >> i have not discussed that. i hat

or the british army. professor sweet: sure, they get training and get drilled once a month, and yes, they do know how to operate their weapon, not trying to make them sound like a bunch of country bumpkins. but nevertheless, working together, working as a force, that is not their thing. so they don't have the discipline, the training to withstand a long campaign, or even a long battle for that matter. what else? >> there is not that many of them. professor sweet: yes, much fewer. it consists of the guys in the county, and it is a wide range of ages here, folks. it can be dad and all his sons heading off together. as far as numbers are concerned, it is whoever comes out. towns are small and that is what you get to work with. any other problems? >> would they elect their leaders? professor sweet: yes, they would. let's elect our officers, shall we? it does oftentimes turn into a popularity contest like, who is providing the best ale? that's the guy who is going to be our next officer. it is popularity, not