dr. mcintyre's book -- yakima he did a good job. thank you. [laughter] dr. mcintyre's book, rollicking good read, a center line, which depicts the story of a u.s. air force medevac c-130 transport and the lives of its crew, the medical personnel who support the transportation of wounded veterans, bringing them home in time for christmas, and it is a related story. i enjoyed it immensely. yields a b.s. in engineering from the net six military academy at west point, in m.a. in literature from auburn and a ph.d. in political science from the university of maryland. please welcome dr. mcintyre. [applause] first lieutenant directly to my left brew up in seaside, ore. think he is back in the great northwest now. he was a high-school football player and a student body president at seaside high school, class of 1963 were is father was principled. he won a national merit scholarship at yale university. member of jonathan edwards college. he played wing forward for yale's rugby team, of rhodes scholar at the university college in oxford, and it was from university coll

dr. mcintyre. [applause] the first lieutenant marlantes directly to my left grew up in a seaside oregon, and i think that he's back in the great northwest now. he was a high school football player and student body president at seaside high school, class of 1963 where his father was principal. he won a national merit scholarship and attended yale university. he's a member of the college he played for the rugby team. he was a rhodes scholar at university college in oxford and was from the university college in oxford that he was called active duty as an infantry officer in the united states marine corps. after his military service he returned to oxford and earned a master's degree and made his living as an international business consultant and india, england, singapore and france. he's the author of the vietnam war may and do your times top ten best seller published in 2010. he declared at one of the most profound and devastating novels ever to come out of the viet nam they received the section in th

dr. mcintyre's book -- yakima he did a good job. thank you. [laughter] dr. mcintyre's book, rollicking good read, a center line, which depicts the story of a u.s. air force medevac c-130 transport and the lives of its crew, the medical personnel who support the transportation of wounded veterans, bringing them home in time for christmas, and it is a related story. i enjoyed it immensely. yields a b.s. in engineering from the net six military academy at west point, in m.a. in literature from auburn and a ph.d. in political science from the university of maryland. please welcome dr. mcintyre. [applause] first lieutenant directly to my left brew up in seaside, ore. think he is back in the great northwest now. he was a high-school football player and a student body president at seaside high school, class of 1963 were is father was principled. he won a national merit scholarship at yale university. member of jonathan edwards college. he played wing forward for yale's rugby team, of rhodes scholar at the university college in oxford, and it was from university coll

dr. mcintyre and dr. coffin. you talk about psychospeechuation or the turning of soldiers into animals. i know you said the social acceptance of killing in society will generally accept it and despite -- [inaudible] taught at a young age and be also about having spiritual strength in pride of battle. since i'm also seeking to be a chaplain as a career, and i'm not going to be one under killing, but since i'm going to be around those who are, how am i going to deal with that? dr. mcintyre, you mentioned the strategic possibility of social security. of future leaders -- not me personally since i still have a lot of time to go, but people who are going to be going into officer in less than a month, how are they going to handle not being able to at least project this global footprint that you've mentioned? and to dr. coffin, because of this idea of psychospeechuation and your talk of moral integrity and military integrity and questionable leadership, how are we going to be able to easily identify this and -- because i'm pretty sure that at an rtc level at least so far, this isn't something

dr. mcintyre come you had a line in your book concerning the wounded. everybody who goes to work in chad. some in the body, someone that had come as some in the higher. what do you mean by that? >> that is talking to people with my experience of 30 years in the military. i was fortunate or unfortunate depending what you think. i was the first class at west point not to go to the vietnam war. the year before istook only volunteers. two years ahead of me they took everybody. in 1970 only volunteers. in march they return to volunteers as for vietnam. president nixon had established victimization. as the first class not to go to vietnam. i left the service 30 years later. after 30 years and 29 days, two weeks into months before 9/11. so i fell right in the middle. not that we didn't do anything for 30 years. we work 20 hours a day, for his death amid casualty. i would refer not to talk about those. but we had a kid killed by a tree limb. i had troops are now rare. we had guys this dirty cheap because of his waist deep snow and five degrees below zero net ca

dr. mcintyre, you mentioned the strategic impossibility of a -- [inaudible] now, of the future leaders not personally since i still have a lo of time to go, but people that are going to be going into officer in less than a month, how are they going to handle not being able to at least project this global footprint that you've mentioned? and to dr. coffin, payoff this idea of psychospeesuation and your talk with moral integ te can sort of military integrity and questionable leadership, are we going to be able to easily identify this? and, because i'm pretty sure that an rtc level at least from what i've seen so far, this isn't something that we're taught. and what are we going to do as of now in order to combat it? in thanks. i think we'd better break those two up. dr. wright, you know, with your work with veteranning' groups, what's in the works, you know, to help employment activities for returning veteranses? is will any special treatment? are they feeling even more isolated because they're now trying to rejoin the economy when unemployment's high, maybe when they don't have the educatio