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waivers to get them into the marine corps. if you don't think that doesn't have some sort of impact on -- at the marine barracks for god's sakes, i mean, the premiere place of the marine corps and all of this is going on against women there, it's a portfolart culture, and it's a part of the day to day culture and some women comes forward to say i have been raped and there is a rape kit and it gets lost. i have been raped. i want to tell someone about it and he or she because, you know, 10% of the people that were reported raped last year were men. men in our military are being raped. when they go forward to get counseling, they may go to the chaplain, somebody you can confide in and he says to a woman, you were drinking, that was it. 96% of the women who get raped the chaplain told one survivor, how he knew these made these statistics, 96% of the women who are raped have been drinking, it's your fault. another survivor was told, that must have been what god intended for you. the military chaplains that we have are not being se

united states marine corps retired. an individual who held a ground-breaking position during world war ii. he was the first combat cameraman sent in by the marine corps. if you have seen a picture of combat on tarawa, you've seen a picture of combat in iwo jima and moving pictures throughout. norm had a piece in that. that's what we're going to be talking about this morning. i've asked both of these gentlemen to start off today's panel by talking a little bit of how it all started for them, where they were at the beginning of world war ii and how they got enlisted into their various services and also caught up in the units they are with. so ed, i'm going to begin with you if you could tell wrus it all began. >> all right, sir. thank you. incidentally, i'm a member of the band of brothers. if you read it, you know that we won the war almost single handed. and i'm a big hero. if you don't believe it, read the book. and i thank you and in fact, i'm delighted to be here this morning with you people. at my age, i'm delighted

my choice to join the marine corps was simple. marines in theory do the right thing, even when no one is watching. they follow honor, courage and commitment and they never leave a man behind. so i thought. unfortunately, i found that not to be the case. after i reported, immediately after my rape by my commanding officer, i immediately found that i no longer was in the good old boys gun club. as long as you walked the walk, you talked the talk, you're protected. the minute you go outside the barrack's wall, the minute you question the commander or how they do thing, you're no longer one of them. they leave you behind. that needs to stop. so i'm not saying they as a general term because there are good marines and there are good officers out there. i want to thank them for doing the right thing, but for those who are not doing the right thing is doing the wrong thing and you need to stop. again, i'd like to say i still support the marine corps. my choice to participate in this lawsuit is so that no one else, hopefully, will have go

the united states marine corps is our nation's risk mitigator. a certain force during uncertain times. one that will be the most ready when the nation is the least ready. there is a cost to maintaining this ability, but it is nominal in the context of the defense budget and provides true value to the american taxpayer. this fiscal year, i'm asking congress for 30.8 billion dollar $30.8 billion. your support will provide operations around the world and provide resources for sailors and marines and families. it will replace equipment that is worn out. it will posture our forces for the future. when the nation pays the sticker price, it buys the ability to respond to crises anywhere in the world through deployed and forces. this same force can be reinforced quickly to inject power and joint access anywhere in the world in the event of a major contingency. no other force possesses the flexibility and the organic sustainment to provide such ability. our nation begins to direct its intention to the challenges of the post afghanistan world, a world wher

army corps of engineers set. we would not recognize anything else. so when we did our mapping, we zero out anything that was there if it was not an accredited levee. in many cases, they may not be accredited but serve communities against floods. we never gave them any value in our mapping. we are at the direction and request of many folks here on the hill in rule-making process to adjust our rules to incorporate levees as built versus those that are accredited. we received thousands of comments in that rule making process that we're adjudicating. it's our goal when we publish this rule, recognize levees as bument and the level of protection they offer, even if it's not optimal in happening out those communities. do you raise one point, though. where communities are demonstrating that they are certified and don't have the funds and this is, as you know, this is not a huge -- this is a huge problem. it goes back to part of our challenge for this is managing risk, and where is our investment strategy in mapping this and determining the risk and where do

since this was relatively new to us, we looked to the corps to help manage that. because previously, under the most of the debris management rules, local jurisdictions would not have been able to go on private property and remove a lot of that debris. it would have been almost a case by case basis. so we were looking at one thing -- we knew that housing was going to be our biggest issue. the faster we got debris off those lots, the quicker people could rebuild. it was a new approach. it had not been done before. we had the authorities under staff for that. and we used the corps to help manage that. did it cost more? yes, sir. and we learned from that? yes, sir. are we looking at how to reduce that cost in the future? absolutely. but we put a premium on speed of that because our primary concern in that disaster, as you knew, was we had so many homes destroyed that we didn't think the way we have traditionally done debris was fast enough. we wanted to do something faster and new. we utilized the corps to help us manage that. >> there are numerous communities in alab

the peace corps expects its volunteers to integrate into local life. but the over-50s bring not just professional experience but life experience, in other words, they don't sweat the small stuff. >> it's a little dark in here. but welcome. >> reporter: she now makes do with just occasional electricity and only cold-running water. a simpler life. >> i just find that i get to slow down and really reflect on what i'm doing, why i'm doing it. >> reporter: so the peace corps is looking for more mature volunteers. >> i'm no youngster. >> reporter: 150 came to this california recruiting session. many had heard jfk's call, too. >> now was the time to take that dream from age 17 and bring it to fruition at the age of 60. >> reporter: after serving in africa and romania, karen is an unpaid ambassador, talking to peace corps prospects. >> i'm about to be an empty-nester. this is really a wonderful opportunity. i can still do something to contribute and serve. >> reporter: it's challenging. older volunteers have to pass a physical, live on a minimal stipend and le

of some of the heroes of the corps. (tony lukeman) we even had a part of the c ration that we called the "john wayne cookie." (narrator) world war ii saw the advent of professional combat camera. for the first time audiences regularly viewed combat footage in the weekly movie newsreels. my first combat was tarowa in the pacific. (norm hatch) it was probably the first time there was a photo effort to provide the marine corps with training information on what actually happens in combat. sergeant hatch went in with the first wave on the landing at tarowa armed with a pistol and camera. brought back a film of the fighting on that island that looks like it was taken to a front-line gunfight. (norm hatch) i was lucky enough to get the only film of the enemy fighting against u.s. forces taken during the whole war. here's one of them. here's a squad of them. (norm hatch) i'm proud to say that that film of mine has been used probably in every film on the pacific made. (dramatic music playing) i'd like to know where the rest of t

the marine corps, 8%. it will make a dent if the women say, i am not going into that unless you can tell me that there is a culture that says if anything happens, there will be hell to pay for it. criminal acts committed on women and men. it is time we put an end to this culture, calling for this institution to change. to change from the top leadership that says zero tolerance -- that is a lie. they tolerate everything. in contrast to 40% in civilian life. of the 8% that go to trial, less than 2% and up having sentences given against them. found guilty, and the sentences are really slaps on the hand. but it is kind of the culture of you can do it -- even if they catch you, which they probably won't. even if you go to the court martial, and not much is going to happen to you. it is an entire structure that needs to change. we need to be holding accountable all those people in the chain of command. if you put the lieutenants, the captains, the generals, and say, it is going on your athens to report any of th

army, women's specialist corps. [ applause ] sergeant daze city lozak, u.s. marine corps, supply specialist. lieutenant pa trisha johnson, u.s. navy recruiter. and captain kathy taylor, u.s. air force, head nurse, station hospital medical ward in korea. [ applause ] >> we're so happy that you all are here today with us. now, i'm only going to ask one question each for the sake of time and that way we can have questions from the audience. so i will start with lieutenant drake. lieutenant drake, did you feel that medical training for combat was adequate for the numbers and sent of injuries that you encountered in the m.a.s.h.? how well did the movie and tv series portray what your teams endured? >> myself, i had no training at all going in on combat zone. i was stationed at walter reed hospital and i had good training at walter reed in the operating room and also i trained in nurse's training i thought was very well done for me to work if will korea. but we had no combat ahead of time about going into a combat zone. all we did was just work 12 hours a day like

that kind of got me twirling out of control just before i was going to get out of the marine corps. then finally i got discharged in february, 2007, and then on march 23rd, 2007, my brother who was also in the marine corps, he hung himself in the basement of his home and at that point i think i decided i was going to do everything to avoid pain. i was going to do everything to deal with it myself as i had been doing the last three or four years. i got into drugs, i got into alcohol, i got into whatever it was that would mask the pain that day. eventually i attempted to kill myself. i ended up in the st. cloud va medical center for about 48 hours in lockup, then i was released and off to do whatever it is that i wanted to do, which was go back to work. because that seemed like the normal thing to do after something like that. and eventually i found myself in and out of jail. i'm not -- and i was getting treated on an outpatient basis for a while at the va medical center. but when you were as messed up as i was it takes a lot more than one, you know, one or two sessions a week to get

while as when you join the marine corps. and then if you're not, then you get hooked up with the v.a. but, for me, i passed my final physical and they, you know, it was easy for me to say yeah, i don't have nightmares, i don't have this. and that's what i did. they say are you going through any of these things and you just circle no and that's really that. >> or you didn't have an ev evaluation with someone sitting dope talking about them. >> no, sir. they just basically had me fill out the paperwork and said it looks like you're doing well. i said yes. let me get out of the marine corps now. >> all right. another question i have is tell me more about what you're doing with this group, this team challenge group. what exactly are you doing for the other marines? >> well, with team challenge, basically, i go to different like the v.a. stand down or i'll go to a veteran's eh vanity and i'll have a table and get the word out that, hey, this is a great place for veterans. it's a good option. it worked for me. here's my story. i'd

under the foreign corrupt practices act. >> rose: so what is the threat to news corp? rupert murdoch's media empire? >> well, there's the reputational threat. but increasingly, i think, it's worth looking at the cost of all of this. we've been looking at settlements out of court, settlements of lawsuits by those who have been hacked and as you know, scotland yard had said that there were more than 800 people of whom some, roughly speaking, 200-plus, 230, perhaps, have actually laid off said is that they will lay lawsuits. they've begun to settle those lawsuits. and the figures we were seeing 130,000 pounds for jude law, for example, the actor, have not, in many cases, lesser payments, included the legal claimants-- that is to say the payments of the legal costs. and we know of one case of somebody who got a settlement in the tens of thousands of pounds, who is bound, not to say so publicly but has told us publicly that he had 200,000 pounds in legal costs. that's, if i quickly do the math, that's 300-- well over $300,000 in legal costs. if you multiply that by the numb

seven states have already passed benefit corp legislation. "b" lab cofounder andrew kassoy: >> existing corporate law was built for maximization of shareholder value, the legal innovation here is that idea that the directors and the officers of the company are now protected to be able to consider a broader set of interests. >> reporter: the law protects firms that file as benefit corporations from shareholder lawsuits that could otherwise charge they didn't maximize profits. "b" corps are legally mandated to maximize social benefits as well. long before any laws were passed, kassoy, along with his former stanford university roommates, jay coen gilbert and bart houlahan, concocted "b" lab to certify "b" corps, making sure that ompanies officially doing good actually were. >> every company today markets itself as one of the good guys. the thing that "b" lab does is as a non-profit is do a lot of that research and independent verification on behalf of all those consumers that want to know about the company that stands behind the product. >> repo

the amendment that i am pr proposing would establish the veterans job corps. it would employ at least 20,000 returning five years in and restore america's national parks, our state parks, and other public lands and touch up federal facilities. the american people know need to be our number one priority and while the economy is gradually recovering it is not yet humming fully. there are still nearly 13 million americans without a job of which three-quarters of a million, over 770,000, are veterans. many of these veterans as we know when they come home and can't find work have other are disturbing. the costs of unemployment are y, career development for individuals, the security of the family, and from a public standpoint lost communities. veterans particularly those recently returfr ly affected by the depressed job market. a year ago more than 1 million veterans were unemployed and in february that number had to climb somewhat to the mentione. we should not sit by as a country and allow such human talent to go underappreciated under employed. this is a problem

this utilizes everything to get our improvement again, a park improvement corps, student job corps and others, target tax incentives that spur clean energy, technological investment in the private sector, widespread domestic investment including infrastructure bank, $566 billion surface transportation bill, unlike what they tried to pass today, which is a three-month extension. mr. speaker, can you believe it, the republican caucus is going on and on with uncertainty and what did they do? created uncertainty by passing a three-month transportation bill. it boggles the mind, actually. and back to the budget for all, $1.7 trillion in the widespread budget. it does so in a way that does not devastate what americans value. we achieve these notable benchmarks by focusing on the true drivers of our deficit, unsustainable tax policy, wars overseas and policies that caused recent recession rather than putting the middle class and social safety net on the chopping block. the budget creates a fairer america, ends tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of americans on schedule at the year's end, extend t

their objective, the german africa corps in tunisia. the enemy was led by irwin ramel, the desert fox. his veterans had already been baptized by the battle toughened british tommies. desperately, with everything they had, the germans fought to keep from being pushed into the sea. when the allied military advisers convened at casa blanca in january 1943, the north african campaign had become tough and bitter. but the achievement of a unified al lied command was a part of the ultimately victory. marshall had worked tirelessly to achieve a smooth running command organization at the highest american level. he held the president's trust and regard. and was consulted on every critical decision affecting the conduct of the war. marshall's diplomatic skill helped reconcile many opposing points of view with british leaders during the casa blanca conference. from the north african meetings came the allied decision to bomb germany around the clock. american b-17s help carry the war to the german backyard. the decision to invade sicily also was rea

the amendment i'm proposed would establish the veterans job corps. it would employ 20,000 returning veterans in project to reserve the parks, the state parks and other public lands and touch up federal facility ls. the american people know jobs need to be our number one priority. and while the economy is gradually recovering, it's not yet come in fully. there are still nearly 13 million americans without a job, of which three quarters of a million, over 770,000, are veterans. many of these veterans, as we know, when they come home and can't find work, have other issues that they face if their family lives that are truly disturbing. the costs of unemployment are enormous to our families, career for individuals, security as a family, and from a public standpoint, lost revenues for our community. veterans, particularly. returning from employment in iraq and afghanistan have been disproportionately affected by the depressed job market. a year ago more than 1 million veterans were unemployed, and in february, that number had to climb somewhat to the 770,0

corps to issue for them on marine corps stationary and also a press release, madam speaker, and it states, and i read, the united states marine corps concurs that pilots lieutenant colonel john brow and major brooks gruber were not at fault for the april 8, 2000, osprey accident. the original accident report will officially include the statement of fact. a copy of the official statement will be formally presented to the gruber and brow families as written evidence to this fact. a press release and formal statement will also be publicly issued by marine officials. madam speaker, i don't know why the marine corps has not been willing to give the families this closure that that's they've asked for. i just touched on a few of the letters of many people who were so familiar with the program and the v-22 in the early stages that have joined in this effort, that is hard to understand why the marine corps will not give the families this one paragraph. madam speaker, i will continue to work and to speak out because that's the least that the marine corps can do for these families. let me also share

captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 i know the cuts are already undertaking are very significant, and sequester would be catastrophic to the defense department, but it remains the haw. sequester is the law and will remain in effect unless congress takes action. and i don't know if it would be that easy to fix it. i just want to tell you, i think the president and the white house team and the defense department team needs to be thinking about what we can do, because i for one do not intend to eliminate the sequester totally as the present budget basically does. i think we'll have to find cuts in other programs in the remaining 60 plus percent of the budget that's been protected from any cuts, that needs to take some -- that's where we need to find some savings, too. it can't all come from the defense department. but that's a complex matter. i just would warn you that we're heading to that time and it did be a problem if we don't have a real solid plan to get out of it. with regard to navy shipbuilding, the plan -- you got a fourth quarter assessment coming up, mr. secr

one is intended to build corp capacity across the country. the other is intended to protect the most at-risk areas of the country. i wonder if you could indicate up front, your estimate of how much money will go toward those two basic programs. and then, how are some of the current guidelines likely to apply when you're providing -- you're going to still provide as the 9/11 act requires, you'll still provide a minimal level of funding to each state. are you going to follow the current guidelines? how's that going to work? after you allocated the funds for the minimums, what is your next priority? i assume it's improving capabilities in high-risk areas. but how do these objectives co-exist? and when we look at other programs, how are you going to graft on to this, the use of a competitive risk-based model that has applied to programs like the transit and port grants. for example, how would fema compare a port project to a transit project in a major urban area? what criteria would we use to evaluate across these areas which previously would hav

they can select the corps of engineer process or a local authority with bid on the process. recently there's been concerns regarding the cost of using the corps when compared to other private options. we included in the report to be submitted that requires fema in conjunction with the core of engineers to explain the xpart in the cost factors between the corps and the private option communities have for debris removal. just wanted to check and see what the status of that report is. >> it's in process, sir. we're working on that. i'll tell you my personal observations are when we have jurisdictions that have the capability to do the debris, they have their contracts and particularly if they follow the steps required, it is generally faster and lower cost. where the corps provides a significant advantage is in the communities that don't have that capability, haven't had the contracts or the event is bigger than their capabilities is to provide the management and bring in resources across the nation. so as this report comes up, i think you're going to see that in many cases we

it's a capability that the marine corps does not have a backup plan for. you correctly pointed out that we have bought the carriers from the british then we they retired their carrier. we did that to extend the life of the harrier to make sure we p landing capabilities in place until the arrival in sufficient numbers of the f-35-b. >> thank you. mr. secretary, gerald r. ford cost overruns are $1 billion and i'm not sure how much it is complete. will the navy be asking for legislative relief from the cost cap of $600 billion? >> senator, not this year, but i'm certain we will be asking next year. >> is it accurate that there is at least $1 billion cost overrun on the gerald r. ford? >> i think it's accurate that it's at least $1 billion over the original estimate. and i think it's important to note what we have done to contain these costs. when i took office, we -- since i have taken office, we have recovered back the fee almost completely from the ship builder. that is building this carrier. so there whatever monies they get from now will simply cover thei

but the marine corps understands. they've gotten the message loud and clear that, number one, it's a leadership issue, number two, it's their responsibility, number three it's absolutely without exception unacceptable behavior. and if found out, that it's my full intention to prosecute it in every case. >> thank you very much for your efforts. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, admiral, mr. secretary, and general, for being here today. i appreciate it and your service our country. admiral greenert, admiral lockhart has described the ohio submarine as the base for our force. based on the questions you had with senator read, you said the slipping of the virginia class production will exacerbate the shortfall that we're going to see going forward. i have a couple of questions for you. first of all, let me say that i'm very proud of the maintenance done at the portsmouth naval shipyard and the importance of that work when we think about the role of the virginia class submarine as the backbone

if you are a be corp. and get a discount, you are a joint venture or whatever, the discount could go as high as 14% which is substantial.

if you are a be corp. and get a discount, you are a joint venture or whatever, the discount could go as high as 14% which is substantial. i want to get clarity on that because i'm not sure how that work. >> this part of the complexity of this legislation, but we specifically stripped out the active portion. there were two places where it could happen. we said there was an additive 4% and we have eliminated the latter category. it was confusing and with regard to the other piece, when you actually get the benefit discount, the 8% is now 4% and the language says you only get the 4% if as long as it doesn't adversely impact the award process for nonprofit bidders. >> what was the reason we came to 4%? >> there were a number of people who thought the preference was too high so the idea was to provide some level of benefit but not 8%. that should reduce if there is a longer-term impact for total expenses and budgetary impact, that should reduce the impact. >> is there a reason we do not want to go lower than 4%

we have, outside the academy, taken action to make sure for both the navy and marine corps that we are gathering in highly qualified, diverse background americans, not just diversity and ethnicity or national origin but also in terms of geography, in terms of backgrounds, in terms of educational experience, because we believe we will be a better fighting force having that diversity of points of view that we bring to bear on any issue. the final thing -- well, next to final thing that i would note is that we have also expanded naval rotc, returning it to some school such as harvard, yale, columbia where it has historically been but where it had been absent for almost 40 years. we are returning it -- we are bringing naval rotc to other schools, like arizona state and rutgers to make sure that we do reach the widest population possible in that. and finally, the other thing that we've got to do in the military is not only get these young, diverse americans to sign up but also to remain and make a navy or marine corps career so that the diversity at our higher rank will mirror the ones at o

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goring armor corps. so i told the guy that i was with, i said let's get the hell out of here right now. and after getting out and i realized i just passed a little stream and i knew from my map reading where we were then. so we started heading toward our objective. and i picked up 18 different people on the way. and about 3:00 in the morning, this officer came out of one of the bushes there in normandy and it was a general -- a colonel. colonel johnson i found out later. he was a commanding officer. the 502nd. and we clicked at each other with our devices we had. our clickers. recognition clickers. and he said sergeant, do you know where you are? i said, yes, sir, i know exactly where i am. and i identified myself. and he says i'm colonel johnson. so he said, show me on the map, and i did. he went his way which was completely opposite from where we had to go, and i went my way. and about 4:00 in the morning, just about light, i brought 18 men to our objective, and we were the only ones there besides abou