he was a battalion commander of another battalion. remember, my unit was attached. >> i'm asking because -- did he make contacted with you all? >> didn't make contact with us because we didn't fall under his command until we were ordered to move out. that -- i can say the same about hal moore. hi not laid eyes on hal moore until the morning that we walked into the lv. his reputation being a tough battalion commander but -- i was in a separate brigade, separate battalion. we happened e and as i tell folks all the time being attached to a unit slyke being stepchild. you are the last to do everything. >> right. >> in my case, it works well. >> yes, it did. >> right. >> so -- you get through the night and then the decision is made to walk to albany. what do you know about that decision to walk? lifted. there's also a question of why you even wanted -- why people were going to go to albany. >> right. and in hindsight or do you want yeah, well -- on that particular morning, when the colonel calls you to the -- command post and the orders of

so my battalion was sent down to patrol to the east of the special forces camp. to attempt to gain contact with any enemy in the area and i thought that was kind of stupid because the enemy had been defeated in its siege of the special forces camp. and had obviously retreated to the west. i couldn't understand why we were being ordered to patrol to the east. joe joined us. he and i -- i was marching with a company that day. during which we crossed the stream up to our necks in the central highlands, 3,000 feet, a coal stream. and we were the night all soaking wet. and joe stayed on the ground with us. instead of hopping back on a hughy for hot chow. >> and that was unusual? >> for a reporter? hell yeah. he rolled up on the in his poncho with the rest of us and i liked that. and we patrolled around for another couple or three days. and around the special forces camp and made little or no contact. and then a got a message from the brigade commander, colonel jim brown, to prepare to assault into the edran gechlt valley the next morning with the mission being to find

second battalion had many -- too many men. so they devised a way to get rid of some more by having them march from camp de corps to atlanta, 119 miles in three days. get rid of some more people and officers. men and officers. they were successful in getting down to t.o.n.e. then the 3rd battalion came along and said we had much too many men. so we were going to ride to atlanta, get off at ft. mcpherson and then walk to ft. benning 149 miles, and we were going to do it the same time that the -- 2nd battalion did from decorps to benning -- to atlanta. we walked from atlanta to bening. three days. 3 1/2 days. so that got us down to t.o.n.e. and then we started out jump training which was very rigorous. matter of fact, the jump school tried everything in the world to break our spirits. they couldn't do it. most of us, just about 97% qualified for our wings. and that's where we started, sir. >> okay. thank you, ed. norm, how about yourself? where did you start? >> i don't know that i can compete with that. my life was a bit simpler

i was the operations sergeant of the battalion. and i had fabricated the sand table to indicate positions where we were to jump in our objectives and our drop zones. i had 18 people to help me fabricate the sand table, and we did a magnificent job. it's only one problem. nobody landed anywhere near the sand table on d-day. because the air force took evasive actions when the flak came up. and there was one plane, by the way, that did make the jump zone. the drop zone. and that was the plane that i was going to be on. that was where my italian

the 3rd battalion plane had blown up. had torpedoes on the bottom and, of course, the flack must have hit one of those and killed everyone on board, of course. the green light came on. when we jumped out -- before we jumped out, we were shuffling to the front of the plane. the gentleman in front of me slipped. he was a mortar man. he had a 60 millimeter mortar carrying in his gear wrapped around the gear. and nothing unusual. we jumped with 60 millimeter mortars and tripods and 81 millimeter bases and so forth. it was nothing unusual. but he slipped. by the time i got him up, we must have gone six or eight miles. must have been seven miles because that was how far i found out i landed from where my jump zone was. when the plane traveled over the jump zone, i do not know. all i know, i jumped into this maze of fireworks. it looked like the fourth of july ten times over. stuff was everywhere. you could hear the shells going through your chute. a sound that i've never forgotten. i hear it in my sleep now. it's a distinct sou

it was our battalion objective for the 600 or 675 people that we should have had there. but we stayed there for the three days. no one knew we were there. until we were finally -- we had a walkie-talkie with us. and the only thing the walkie-talkie would get would be british broadcasting company. beamed to the ship and from the ship we picked up their signal. we found out that the invasion was a success. we stayed there and held those bridges until we were relieved. thank you, sir. >> thank you, ed. what you don't know is you got a battlefield commission after that. but we'll get to that later. norm? first cameraman to go in with the marines. went into terawa. the first division was sent out, and had the first photographic unit that we had put together. at quantico. and they went to goddal canal. that was our first operation in the pacific. but because they were so new, the lieutenant colonel that we reported in to said, what the hell do you do? so the photo officer tried to explain it, but things were so new in those days, and we had so little information on the areas t

>> that is correct. >> great. >> it went from 155 battalion sized formations to 168 battalion sized formations. so the force has grown significantly in just a year, but it has also grown in its capabilities in just a year. we have seen that not just in the army but also in the afghan national police as well. we have seen the emergence of the afghan special operations capabilities also dramatically enhanced over the period of the last two years but in the period of last year as well, the nine commandos, the 72 special forces operational detachment alphas, the a-teams if you will, the emergence of the special police units within the general directorate of the special units in the ministry of the indoteri. those units with advisers or partners continue to make progress and, as i said earlier, 89% of our operations are partnered operations today. there are operations on the ground, as we speak, right now, in afghanistan where afghan unit are in the lead with partnership, partnered operations with isaf forces. so we have seen that progress. we intend to continue to pursue that progress. among the f

i was briefing the battalion by companies, by platoons by squads on the sand table. i was the operation sergeant of the battalion and i had fabricated the sand table to indicate the positions where we were to jump and our objectives and our drop zones. i had 18 people to help me fabri kate the sand table. there was only one problem. nobody landed anywhere near the sand table on d-day. that was the plane that i was going to be on. that was where my commander was killed, his feet never touched the ground. on the drop zone where it was independe indicated.

the rest of our battalion, 2the were just going to take our fox holes for the night. i always remember going down to -- another fo came in and i went down and said to him, you really got to pay attention and you really got to put the stuff out there and stuff like that. i tried to cheer him up and all that. he got killed in albany before i could see him again. were you his replacement? >> right. that's what happened. very odd thing. we stayed the night -- i always remember our uniforms were so -- the smell of death and all of that that we burned our uniforms, they had all brand-new nice uniforms for us. jungle fatigues, this time. not the old ones from the states. >> were you still wearing state's -- >> yeah. and we burned our boots and they were so bad. and they gave us all new jungle boots. we were all excited to have new uniforms. and i remember going to the theater. they have a theater there. and i fell asleep in the theater. so they kind of took me back. i was so tired. >> what was the movie? >> some western, i think. you know? >> something with guns. >> guns, ye

five of the soldiers from the 3rd battalion of the yorkshire regime regiment, one from the 1st battalion regiment. our thoughts are with family and friends of this brave regiment. this would be the largest loss of life in afghanistan since 2006. the overall number of casualties suffered in afghanistan to over 400. every death and every injury reminds us of the human cost paid by our armed forces to keep our country safe. i've spoken this morning to the chief of the defense staff, the chief of the general staff, and the commanding officer of 3rd battalion yorkshire rental it. they each stressed the commitment of our troops to the mission and getting the job done. but i know everyone will want a message of support and backing for our troops and their families to go out from this house today. this morning i had meetings with minister and colleagues and others. i shall have further such meetings later today. >> can i echo the prime minister's tribute to the fallen, their service and their sacrifice humbles us all. with this herbal news in mind will my right honorable friend use his meetings

the marine corps or -- they go to battalion. the battalion commander has a board and they look at them to make sure that the criteria for the award that's been recommended has been met. if he concurs then it goes to regiment, the division. back to washington. it depends on what level of the award as to what level can approve it. okay? division commander in marine corps can approve bronze stars. silver stars are the secretary of the navy. okay? navy cross, secretary of navy. medal of honor, the president. at each level the award package is looked at and scrutinized to make sure that the statements support the action and then they determine what level is that. and at any level it can stop. it can be downgraded. a board can make that determination. in the case of the medal of honor, it comes to the joint chiefs of staff, then the secretary of defense, and the secretary of defense takes it to the white house. now, it's presented by the president in the name of the congress. and that's generally how the system goes. and it has worked

and then through the machine gun and the creek bed and he said, you killed my battalion. you killed my best friend. and that same afternoon, they ran over that creek bed and we were up against all kinds and on that gun, on that plank, i used it for safety and then i got word from my third rifle company and the north was opened, open to the south to the southwest. and then when charlie came between me where my gut tells me one thing and i go with my gut. i ran up there and i said, grab your men and run them right over there and tie it in and be prepared for the attack. he jumped three feet into the air and got them in and i've interviewed those men. they didn't expect us to be there. and, of course, that morning they paid a heavy price, the next morning. but we beat off that attack and we made a couple of counter attacks. but he did succeed in stopping the enemy from attacking us. it was a long fight and when i think about it, with 19 men on the ground and hit by the enemy, i keep thinking that they are great soldiers, great fire support. the bob edwards, bill beck. but yo

i knew at the outset, and we were hit heavily by those two enemy battalions. i knew that however the outcome of this battle, major decisions were going to be made in saigon and hanoi and washington. and i knew that we had to win. i knew we would. and general kennard wrote me a letter in recent years saying we had a lot of good battalions. it was the first cav division. i'm glad it was your battalion that ran into that hornet's nest which was a pretty good compliment from the commander general. >> yes, sir. >> but i've gone back to the battlefield twice, once with joe and i wanted to spend the night on the battlefield. the helicopter that took us in there, russian helicopter flown by two vietnamese pilots. they took the first lift out. but then the second lift, we were stranded by monsoon rain which pounded us for two hours, so we spent the night there. i was able to walk over to my command post and i visualized in memory that some of the dead that we were unable to get out that night. i could see them in my mind, boots sticking out at crazy angles from the pon

by the soldiers are from the server tied to yorkshire regiment and once from the first battalion the duke of lancaster's regiment. our thoughts are with their family and friends of these brave servicemen. this would be the largest loss of life in a single incident in afghanistan since 2006. it takes the overall nuber of casualties we've suffered in afghanistan to over 400. every injury reminds us of the human cost paid by our armed forces to keep our country safe. i have spoken this point to the chief of defense staff, chief of general staff and the commanding officer of third battalion the yorkshire regiment. they expressed the commitment of our troops to the mission of getting the job done. i know everyone will want a message of support and backing for our troops and their families to go out to the south today. >> her here. >> this point i had meetings with minister of colleagues and others, and i shall further su meetings later today. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i echo the prime minister tribute to the fallen, their service and their sacrifice mbles us all. with this terrible n

a year later, there are 168 candac-sized units, battalion-sized units, and we've gone from 121 to 127 rated in the top three and 11 rated independent with advisers. so in just a year there has been significant improvement. and it's not a linear improvement. it's really an improvement that gains capability over time in a nonlinear way. there have been similar improvements with the police, as well. but let me take that question and make sure i get back to you with the level of specificity that it deserves, sir. >> secretary miller, are you satisfied that progress and improveme improvement, talking about successful and failing, but there's been progress and improvement in these areas of benchmarks that we've established? i know they've been worked on with the secretary of state as well as the secretary of defense. >> senator nelson, yes, i am satisfied that we're making progress. i know that there will always be times when we slip back and have to regain progress that we've made before. but as general allen said, what we've seen as very significant progress and we will provide detailed n

by the soldiers are from the server tied to yorkshire regiment and once from the first battalion the duke of lancaster's regiment. our thoughts are with their family and friends of these brave servicemen. this would be the largest loss of life in a single incident in afghanistan since 2006. it takes the overall number of casualties we've suffered in afghanistan to over 400. every injury reminds us of the human cost paid by our armed forces to keep our country safe. i have spoken this point to the chief of defense staff, chief of general staff and the commanding officer of third battalion the yorkshire regiment. they expressed the commitment of our troops to the mission of getting the job done. i know everyone will want a message of support and backing for our troops and their families to go out to the south today. >> here, here. >> this point i had meetings with minister of colleagues and others, and i shall further such meetings later today. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i echo the prime minister tribute to the fallen, their service and their sacrifice humbles us all. with this ter

we'll hear from harold moore, with the first battalion seventh calvary regimen. and we'll hear his recollections of the battle that he knew that would reverberate in washington, d.c. and hanoi. >> general moore, thank you for being with us today. i am dr. richard perrone conducting this oral history interview and today is november 10th, 2005, we're in washington, d.c. at the 40th anniversary reunion of the battle for the veterans. sir, there's a lot we need to discuss. i would like to ask you something in general before we get to the events that surrounded that. can you talk to memphis about yourself and your training and what you brought with you to vietnam in 1965? and how you saw your men? what you wanted to do with them and how you trained them up for that job? >> well, this would-be will take about an hour. i'll cut it back to a few minutes. ask i was in the 82nd airborne, i jump-tested chutes. i did this for 2 1/2 years for the cia. had a few sporting events, which were life-threatening. which taught me ethe primary lesson of always keep focused when you're

so i was attached to second battalion, 4th marines, a grunt unit sent to iraq. so i immediately felt like i didn't deserve to get help because i wasn't infantry by trade. so therefore the things that i saw were things that are natural and therefore, you know, just kind of need to suck it up. when i got out of the marine corps, you know, i started seeking treatment at the va and i just felt like i didn't get help because if i admitted there was something wrong with me, there was something wrong with me. and the va though they were there and supportive, they never really said, this is what's going to happen if you continue and you don't get help. you need to get help or if you don't get help you're not going to get this disability check that, you know, you go and spend on booze and the strip club to be very frank. and that's what i did. and so i think the biggest reason i didn't get help was because i felt ashamed. i felt like i didn't -- there was another bed for someone more deserving than myself. so that was the main reason, mr. chairman. >> you raised two impo

and now, the army has announced that number includes five soldiers and one from the first battalion. this was the reaction from a former commander of british forces in afghanistan. >> clearly, it was a very significant explosion which managed to, as we understand it, killed six soldiers in an armored vehicle, which is a very heavily protected vehicle designed to withstand a blast from some of the most powerful weapons in the world. so, a very big explosion. >> the prime minister had this to say to mark this sad milestone of more than 400 british troops now killed while serving in this war. >> this is a desperately sad day for our country and a desperately sad, of course, for the families concerned. it is a reminder of the huge price we are paying for the work we're doing in afghanistan. the sacrifices our troops have made and continue to make. >> the naval party spoke of the role british forces say stabilize the nation it says should never again become an incubator for terrorism. only this january, while visiting the u.k., the afghan leader thinks the british people for sacrificing,

b battalion in which he wound up which was a battalion of black m.p.s. i don't think this was racist, but this was not a coveted assignment. he made the best of this and he made off with mostly africa so you're enforcing out speeding and that sort of thing and bum owe by, there has to go more to war than enforcing these kinds of regulations. so he gets invited to a party, a highly social, vent in north africa at the home of a brit named dove cooper and then he meets randolph churchel, that's winston's son. he is a hanful. he was a handful for winston and fought with him for a lot of occasions and he successfully worked his way into british special ops. he just kind of showed up and goes off on a long-range desert group and he goes into occupied yugoslavia. so bumby hears this story and he thinks this is a very interesting way to spend your time with the war. i wonder if we have anything like this, if you're an m.p., second lieu lute and looking to enjoy the intelligence organization, and one day in algeria he goes to a camp and he makes his rounds lookin

three were lieutenant commanders who were in the combat battalion. once thought around kandahar new-line was the rolling hills and they all intersected and at some point* during the year and the fourth secondary character a guy sitting here. >> there he is. >> he was a general's aide in bosnia? and his day during the invasion nab iraq and back in afghanistan commanding said combat battalion. petraeus has a special zero relationship with the 101st he commanded them in 2003 the first combat command. during his last command it just so happens the entire 101st was deployed together for the first time since 2003 and david was one of the three combat leaders battalion leaders that we write about. and doug was the senior civilian adviser to the commander. and also has a special relationship two petraeus as a planner of the surge in iraq 2007 some zero and then from the dominick factor -- character that they were buried interesting tough battles and writing about them from my vantage point* and it was inspiring to me to see the dedication and from the people

i come over the hill hoping to find the battalion i was supposed to lay a wire to, and i meet with a german machine gun. that was also quite a hair raising experience. but those are things that help keep you alive. but in those two seconds that night, there wasn't anything that i could do to keep myself alive. and i don't know if i had any concern about whether i lived or not, but that was it. >> great. thank you. i'm going to stop at this point. i have one more i think you'll all be interested in, but i'll wait until the end. let me open it up to questions. any of you? please? yes, sir, speak up. >> i am with the rotc. how was your life affected after the loss of his limb. >> the question, how was your life affected after the loss of his limb. his right hand. >> interesting, when i lost a limb, i didn't think about it. well, i did, i knew immediately one of the thoughts went through my head, you're going to have a hook the rest of your life. and i actually got a hook as well. worked out great for halloween. i was a pirate. [ laughter ] down side, i had a buddy with a hook, fell and

chief stations, basically there's a battalion chief there, he will be like the little commander of that district as far as we're concerned and the fire department's response. going to have the ham radio communication people there, they are going to set up a little base station in that fire station and they are also going to be in communication with the staging area in that district. this is what the big picture looks like, basically it's a little clearer than that, it goes up on the wall, but it's the city laid out in these response districts. it shows you where all the emergency facilities such as hospitals and police stations and fire stations and schools are. basically, there's a map that corresponds with your neighborhood. you want to get one so you can find out where in your neighborhood to go. once you've taken care of your families, your friends, your pets, your loved ones if you want you can go help out other people in your city. there it is, a place for us to gather as nert members and there's our nert ics area. here is our structure. same kind of set up, sort of our version. c

there is a requirement in the '13 budget for a battalion headquarters for a chemical battalion that is going to be deployed from the states as part of forced posture adjustments to the peninsula. that's an additional requirement. >> so want originally anticipated, so that's added in the '13 and so you have to find some way to accommodate that? >> that's correct, congressman. >> thank you. that's all i have. yield back. >> mr. turner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. lavoy, it is very timely we're having this hearing. as we look to the news of what's just been coming out of the talks that the president attended, we know that the news also reported on monday, for example, this is cnn story i will be reading from, just hours after the united states warned that north korea would achieve nothing with threats or provocations, yang moved a long range rocket it plans to test fire to a launch pad monday. now, north korea's threat of a missile launch can only be an effort to test perhaps ahead of deployment an intercontinental ballistic miss thael would have capability of reaching the united stat

in which he wound up which was a battalion of black mps. i don't think he was particularly racist, but this was not a coveted assignment. anyway, he made the best of this. he went off to north africa with this group. it was mostly rear echelon work, so you're enforcing regulations, handing out speeding tickets, arresting people selling black market goods, that sort of thing, and bumby gets kind of antsy doing this kind of work. he figures there's has to be more to war than enforcing these kinds of regulations. so he gets invited to a party, a highly social event, in north africa at the home of a brit named duff cooper and there he meets randolph churchill. that's winston's son. he is a handful. he was a handful for winston, fought dramatically with him on a lot of occasions, and has successfully worked his way into british special ops. he wasn't invited. he didn't get a set of orders. he just kind of showed up and said, i'm winston church hill, i want to be part of this. goes off on a long range desert group and then he drops into occupied

battalions. and in the air force, we'll maintain 54 combat squadrons. as well as 275 strategic airlifters. so we will have, without mistake, the strongest military in the world. even after we've made these reductions. the last point i would make is that this can't just be about cuts. it also has to be about investments. so we targeted our investments in developing that technological leap that we have to have if we're going to be able to get ahead of the rest of the world. we're investing in science and technology and special operations forces in unmanned air systems and in cyber. at the same time, we recognize the need to prioritize and distinguish urgent neets frds f those that can be delayed, particularly in light of the cost problems we confront. we identified $75 billion in savings over five years that result from canceled or restructured programs. $15.1 billion from restructuring the joint strike fighter program, $13.1 billion by stretching investment in the procurement of ships. $2.5 billio

oddly enough, i got assigned to a thing they used to call the little john rocket battalion. that's a missile about the length of that table, and that's -- >> nuclear. >> yeah. exactly. that's the one. that was kind of an odd thing to be in. and for a year, that's what i did. and so i became an fo a week or two before we left for vietnam which was kind of an interesting experience. >> what was your major at minnesota in school? >> business. >> you were business major. >> right. >> strong mathematical background. >> no. not at all. but it was -- obviously a real good school and i found it all very -- military all interesting. i enjoyed the heck out of it. >> you went to ft. sill, eight weeks of obc? >> yeah, about eight weeks. right. >> in that eight weeks, how much of your training was about being a forward observer in vietnam? >> zero. we -- in vietnam. all of it was about -- most of the training was about being a forward observer. i think they realized that most second lieutenants were going to be forward observers. but never had heard the word. never heard of it. and in fa

. >> the fire department also responds, but battalion chief rick pavick doesn't see the vapor cloud.e's taken completely by surprise when the gas finds an ignition source and erupts 500 feet away. >> it was real crazy. it was amazing, is what it was, just to be that close to something that large and watch it spread out. >> when the gas ignites, officer mcadams' dash cam records the initial sound, but the explosion is out of view. the police dispatcher has a clear view of the train tracks and radios officer mcadams. >> we just had a huge explosion. we've got massive fire out here. >> as officer mcadams starts backing up, the flames race down the track and into the camera's view. as the gas explodes over and over again. >> anywhere that vapor from the chemicals had gone just burned, whether it was on the ground, in the air. just nothing but a ball of fire and like a big fuse, it just kept going further and further. >> it was a big mushroom shaped fireball. it went up in the middle and then kind of cascaded down. >> you might want to back your units up. >> didn't have time to really get

then about two weeks after that a friend also in second battalion 4th marines hung

they are eliminating four battalions. the cuts will help the pentagon reduce spending by $400 billion over the next ten years. it will shrink the size by 20,000 people. >>> this morning a top student and athlete at a montgomery county school facing deportation is released thanks to the help of his friends and family. a student at northwest high school in germantown. in 2008, the united states ordered them back to columbia. they placed them in an immigration center. his friends began an online campaign to free them and it worked. >> i have the best friends any kid in the u.s. could ask for. if you guys can look, it's amazing. i mean, i was -- my friends tell me, yeah, we are having a small movement but i never thought it was this big. >> they received a one year reprieve. their case is still under review. >>> the owner of a popular ice cream shop faces sexual charges. he assaulted a boy ten years ago. the victim is now 27 years old. he was assaulted over a period of five years beginning when he was 12. he's the owner of jo

i'm absolutely " ecstatic" the battalion was part of the multinational force conducting opprations throughout the peninsula similar ceremonies were held in elkton, frederick, glen burnie and silver spring. we like the extraa daylight, but losing an hour of sleep is a tough compromise. with the time change... .many are heading to work this morning pith an extra yawn or two. is free coofee the answer? joel d. smith isslive at penn station to see how one company is trying to capitalize on our drowsiness. good morningg joel d. 3 3 a father... fed up with his son's bad grades... is taking his punishment to the streets. streets.honking horn nats bell is making his 7th grader stand at a busy intersection... earing aaa sign that reads::"hey, i want to be a class clown. is it wrong?" the back says: "i'm in the 7th grade and got 3 f's. blow your horn if there's something is wrong with that." everything to each his son a lesson... and finally... it "i don't know any other way -- i'm trying to reach hii. he doesn't want to be reached and this is my last resort." the son says he's going o work harder... t

i just got a briefing from the battalion chief on the scene. she said a tree had fallen down on the roadblocking all lanes at highway 13 a car full of four young people in their early 20s hit the tree. they say a woman in the car was ejected. a 21-year-old man in the car got out to go look for her to check on her, he was hit by a car and kill. here's the scene behind me -- car and killed. here's the scene behind me blocked off southbound highway 13 park boulevard in oakland probably going to be shutdown for a while. investigators are going to have to take time on this one. we've seen them with flashlights looking around for information on this case. it is obviously very dark out here. they are dealing with people who are very traumatized. they are in shock. they are having some issues piecing together what happened. i've heard a few different versions of this story. this is the very latest. i just spoke with the battalion chief just a few seconds ago that is what they have managed to figure out, at in point. they've taken a couple of people to

i'm absolutely ecstatic" ecstatic"tte battalion was part of the multinational &pforce conducting operations throuugout the peninsula siiilar ceremonies were held in elktoo, frederick, glen burnie, frederick and silver spring. a somber day of remembrance in japan..mmrring one year since the country was struck by a massive arthquakee anddtsunami. tsunami.grief, prayer and reelection filled japan's disaster demollshed the -....- of powerful aftershocks....ffll- owee by a deeastating ttunami. seems a long waa from recovery. much of the debris along the tsunami-ravageddcoast gathered into mmssive piles... tonight, more than 330,000 people are housing. reeemberinn the tragic events one year ago. a japanese cherry blossom grrve was planted around the druiddhill ressrvior.it will bb dedicated in honor of hose who lost their lives and a way for many to reflect on what happennd one year ago. "this is a way to reaffirm our relationship....we can also celebrate the reliance of tteer country" marking thh location willlread in memory of the citizens of japan who lost their lives in the great tragedy. 3 t

women's history month event at the national museum of the marine corps, we talked to marines who was a battalion commander in afghanistan. she is devastated over the loss of innocent life and the loss of trust. >> of that society is based on relationships and trust. will take some time to rebuild and get them back. >> this captain's job was to engage with afghan women. >> i had afghan women calling his sister and thanking me for everything i was doing to saved them. >> the thought of so much trust building dealt such a blow by one room soldier makes these women sick, but they do not think all is lost. >> it depends on where you are in the country and your relationship with the village elder or that particular population as to whether or not they see that is an isolated incident by one soldier or a thick clouds their perception of the u.s. presence in afghanistan. >> and one other side the military has a lot of work to do, the president of afghanistan as saying that he wants nato troops to pull out of rural areas and stay inside their bases. >> thank you. growing concerns tonight among a group of

and he would know the difference between a squad and a battalion. or an m-16 rifle and a mortar. if i were asked today to cover a rugby football match in redskins stadium i wouldn't know what the held i was looking at. that was the same as a lot of the journalists in vietnam. they didn't know what they were looking at. so consequently they took pictures of dead soldiers and they reported graphic stuff which they never should have reported. some of which helped the enemy. >> join us next weekend for more oral histories from the vietnam archive airing saturday at 8:00 a.m., sunday at 3:00 p.m. and monday at 4:00 a.m. eastern. for more information and to watch past oral histories, visit our website cspan.org/history. >>> all weekend long, american history tv is in shreveport, louisiana, next we visit the louisiana state exhibit museum which opened in 1939. and was one of the most expensive construction projects managed by the public works administration during the great depression. the museum is currently displaying a collection of original signed documents from some of america's ea

the second battalion of the third striker brigade combat team. that's the unit he deployed with. again, this is a training center. he deployed on december 3rd. we also are learning that two other u.s. service members who were allegedly drinking with staff sergeant robert bales before he went on that alleged shooting spree, they have been interviewed by military investigators, shep. >> shepard: and you found an article of which he was the subject. i guess something about a massacre that happened during a battle. >> well, it's very interesting. it's a write-up about a battle that he took place n iraq when he was serving in iraq in 2009. remember, he had three tours in iraq. in that it says lessons learned in iraq. the battle of zarko and also called the battle of najaf. like a match lit up. this is quoting staff sergeant robert bales. it looked like a toy with a candle lit. he was describing -- he was describing what the area looked like after lt. colonel berry huggins' third brigade second infantry division another striker battalion had gone through in this very severe battle with

six soldiers, five of them came from the third battalion yorkshire regiment. one of them was from the duke of lancaster's regiment. they are still trying to get to that vehicle, still trying to find out what exactly happened, whether it was anti-tank mines. the facts have to be determined. we have gone beyond 400 british troops killed in afghanistan now. this is the biggest single incident in terms of deaths and previously there were five killed, but six were killed yesterday. defense secretary philip hammond condemned this attack and made clear that those responsible will be held to account. >> thank you. our other correspondent quentin sommerville is in afghanistan and we hope to get to him in a few minutes. will also hear from david cameron, the british prime minister. mitt romney has moved one step closer to becoming the republican presidential nominee, but his campaign failed to deliver the knockout blow on super tuesday. he won six of 10 states, up for grabs but had a narrow margin of victory in ohio, which is seen as a key indicator, of a candidate's ch

it burned six cars from what the battalion chief told us. and because it damaged part of the building in the apartment complex here, crews evacuated folks. 18 people will now have to find a place to stay. >> i walked outside and all i know is is there was a fire in my apartment building and they evacuated everyone. it was such a heroic event, like, i didn't know what was going on this morning. i was kind of scared. reporter: the red cross is now on the scene to help residents. there are adults and children affected here. luckily no one hurt. investigators will now try to determine how this fire started. the battalion chief tells me this could have started in the car or right in front of the car and once they determine that, they'll be able to tell if this fire was accidental or not. live from oakland, tara, moriarty, tvvu channel 2 news. >>> a shooting last night on utah street. ktvu's allie rasmus joins us now with the information the victim told officers before he died. reporter: the victim was shot several times, but he didn't die from hi

how many afghan battalions have gone over to taliban side? zero. how many afghan companies have? zero. does that mean in a country that has been turned upside-down by violence that there's not young men acting out, more afghan boys have died, afghan troop turns his weapon on the friendlies then nato troops, this is a culture that has been through trauma, so it's not a clash of cultures with their troops and we're well together. the spectacular bombing attacks and notice that sid that their parliament would not be seated without violence. they kept saying what they were going to do. remember their last spring offensive, nothing happened, the reason it didn't happen was because the nato troops and the afghan troops fighting together were able to keep them down. we'll continue talking to those that we can draw over. we want to end the war as soon as possible. secretary clinton has been very clear as far as the america position on this. if they quit using violence, they break with al qaeda and they agree to live by the afghan constitution they're welcome in the political. you've got

. >> reporter: those type of benefits go to public safety employees, robert is a battalion fire chief in san jose. >> 9 the average firefighter will get about $90,000 a year. do you think that's justifiable to the taxpayer? >> that's what was negotiated overtime. that's the agreement. we certainly see the need for a market correction and the benefit will come down. >> reporter: he said firefighters are willing to cut benefits 90% of salary to 75%. the mayor wants to cap it at 65% for new hires and require count highers to pay more in to the system. voters will decide this summer. the union plans to sue. >> we have offered to give more and all we have heard is here is our ballot initiative. >> reporter: the mayor hopes controlling pension costs will get his city back on track and finally open those empty libraries. ben tracy. >> richmond police are offering a 10,000-dollar reward to catch vandals who damaged a new elementary school. tonight the school board agreed to double the reward. last month vandals caused nearly a million dollars of damage to a school. walls were smeared with pai

. >> the ministry of defence has announced that the soldier from the second battalion has been killed in afghanistan. the soldier died and explosion in helmund province. his family has been informed. brings the number of u.k. military deaths in afghanistan since 2001 to 405. taking a daily dose of aspirin in middle-aged men will protect people against cancer. the latest evidence based on new research suggests that a daily dose will not only cut the risk of developing the disease but also reduces the chance of a spreading to other organs. cancer research says that the findings are exciting but they warned that the drug can cause dangerous side effects like stomach bleeds. doctors treating the footballer says that he is continuing to show signs of recovery. he was effectively dead for more than an hour after he suffered a cardiac arrest during a game against -- on saturday. >> this is "newsday" on the bbc. >> i'm in london. the headlines. bursts of gunfire, lot explosions in toulouse, where french police are involved in a standoff with a man suspected of shooting. >> he was planning mor

my own connections with a name like giovagnoli are third generation battalion. i'm not even sure what generation on my mother's side in terms of scotch irish dutch immigrants from virginia to missouri. i never really thought about immigration much growing up. my grandfather was italian. i was aware he had a different life from me. and very grateful for the opportunities that he give us. my father was the youngest child growing up in the depression. all they wanted to do was the american. he does not even know italian. i never even thought about it. during the development of a career path, i fell into immigration. like a lot of young attorneys, i was interested in human rights. i was offered a job at the department of justice with the ins. i was not tried to do it. i started thinking about what i cared about. it was public service. you make a difference where you are. i believed for the 13 years that i was in ind and then dhs, that i was able to help make changes within the government structure. i was detailed to senator kennedy's office. i worked on the immigrat