but he did interfere in the case and as a result, calley did not go immediately to leavenworth. thank you very much. professor solace? >> gents, ladies. the fact that military justice didn't make sure, the fact is that himilitary justice didn't make sure that those responsible for my lai and its cover-up for properly punished. i feel that those trials and nontrial results are totally inequitable. that's a quote from lieutenant general william peers who conducted the peers investigation. i'm with general pierce who led the 92-strong team that definitively investigated my lai. it was peers who brought charges against those soldiers who were tried for my lai as trigger pullers and against officers who covered it up for more than a year. how many unarmed and defenseless vietnamese old men and women, children, were murdered? how many women and young children were raped and gang raped? how many of those women and young female children had their vaginas ripped by bayonets wielded by calley's soldiers? in 1970, the american public never heard about those sexual offenses but it's the epi

kali's gone to leavenworth by now, but under the rules as they existed time, once you served a third of the sentence you were eligible for parole, if you had leavenworth, and kally is eligible for parole on 9, november, 1964. you will often hear that nixon pardoned or xhietcommitted kall sentence, not true, but he did interfere in the case and as a result kally did not go immediately to leavenworth. thank you very much. professor solis? >> the fact that military justice didn't make sure, the fact is that military justice didn't make sure that those responsible for my lai and its cover-up were properly punished. i feel that those trial and non-trial results are totally inequitable. that's a quote from lieutenant general william peers who conducted the pierce investigation. i'm with general pierce who led the 92 strong team that definitively investigated my lai. it was pierce who brought charges against their soldiers who were tried for my lai as trigger pullers and against officers who covered it up for over a year. how many unarmed and defenseless vietnamese old, men and women and ch

chelsea manning was finally released from fort leavenworth in kansas on may 17. since then, she has emerged as a leading activist for trans rights and greater transparency. she has been featured in the pages of "vogue" where she was photographed by annie liebowitz and was named 2017 newsmaker of the year by "out magazine." in january, she announced her bid for the u.s. senate in maryland, challenging democratic senator ben cardin who is seeking a third term. and today she joins us here on democracy now! for her first live television interview. chelsea manning, welcome to democracy now! >> thank you for having me. amy: it has been 10 months, but how does it feel to be free? >> it is overwhelming. i wake up some days and i'm not sure that this is actually happening. sometimes i wake up in the morning and i have to figure out where i am because now i am traveling all of the time and i am not staying in one spot. -- initially it was and wonderful, but now as i'm seeing more and more of the world and how it has become the world i feared, a decade ago, now it is overwh

. >> oliver: by christmas of 1923, the patton's were stationed at fort leavenworth kansas and receivedhe yuletide blessing, george s patton iv was born. >> i think he might have been an accident, but he was proud to have a boy. >> oliver: he vouched from post to post and with no war in sight, he had other pursuits. >> patton was more than a soldier, an olympic athlete, participated in the 1912 decathelon, the first master of the sword, an accomplished polo player. >> he brought a number of ponies to the base and more horses than the commanding officers. it wasn't well received. >> oliver: with his 55th birthday approaching and nearly 16 years since he'd first seen combat, he yearned for a challenge. assigned to a second tour in hawaii george and beatrice embarked on a 2000 plus mile journey from san diego to honolulu as seen in the family home movies. >> by the time he goes to hawaii he's the captain of the polo team and he had made a fall one time and had a concussion and about a week later, turned to his wife and says, what am i doing? i don't remember anything from last week and aft

we would be in fort leavenworth. >> and the independent review of the fbi, their own inspector general who came to this conclusion, it makes it feel like it is a slam dunk, and why all of the drama? >> that is the thing. i know it is march madness. i rather see the drama on the basketball court. it would be madness for andrew mccabe to retire with full pension. lois lerner, how many times did she plead the fifth amendment? and whatever the reason the former governor of virginia was able to give hundreds of thousands to his wife for a pension campaign. he ought to finance his own pension as well. >> the american public would like to see and sort of be able to trust and believe in the fbi as preimminent law agency. are you comfortable with the folks in charge there or should there be additional changes? >> no, we have something wrong with or at the head of the snake up there in washington d.c. and we need to have a wholesale change. the american people see an incredible amount of hypochrissy and the rank and file fbi agents see it. and something needs to change. if you can't trust the nu

>> i think i believe -- i believe i started at age 13 in fort leavenworth, kansas. >> trish: did you get to buy your own gun then? >> yeah, through my dad. at age 13. yeah. >> trish: so it's part of your culture? you grew up hunting. >> yeah. >> trish: you think it's something that you should be able to do. i mean, look, in the face of everything that's been happening right now, what do you say to those kids that are down there in florida that saw so much tragedy and have lost their friends and students that they went to school with every day? >> by all means, they have every right to protest and do everything that they think is right in their mind. it's america, a freedom of speech. at the same time, i don't think bending ars or charging the age limit will help stop the shootings. if you look at the statistics on it, how many of them were actual by below the age of 21? the vast majority are over the age of 21 that did these mass shootings. if you make ars illegal, there's a huge black market for them. you can very easily -- a criminal can easily purchase one whereas you're just taki

and up there with one of my cliques at fort leavenworth, mark, here it is, the whole book in one picture. so what this demonstrates, the really only two lines that you have to worry about are the one that's labeled n.a.f. or north air force combat and the green line you see almost in a vertical slope. and then the very top line, which is axis combat aircraft. the brown line. as you can see, when we start out, the race for tunis, the allies are huge disadvantage in terms of combat aircraft. and at the kasserine battle which you see annotated down here on 19 february, toward the bottom middle of the screen, you can see that there's still a significant disparity between axis and the combined british and american or northwest aircraft. but about the time that -- the battle that leo talked about this morning at el guettar in the middle of march you can see those lines almost start to cross. so if you ask yourself why was it that before el guettar we weren't doing so well and afterward we did much better? the ability to employ more aircraft and more successfully as the wetter starts to improve

leavenworth, mark calhoun, i said here's the book in one picture. so what this demonstrates, really the only two lines you have to worry about is the one labeled naft, the north american air force combat aircraft. that is the green line and then the top line which is axis combat aircraft. the brown line. as you can see when we start out the race for tunis, allies are the at a huge disadvantage in terms of aircraft. at the kasserine battle you see annotated down here in 19 february, toward the bottom of the screen, there's still a significant disparity between axis and the combined british and american, or northwest african aircraft. about the time of the battle that leo talked about this morning where we are in the middle of march, you can see those lines almost start to cross. if you ask why was it we weren't doing so well and afterwards we seemed to do much better, the ability to deploy more aircraft and more successfully as the weather starts to improve in the spring season and interdict supply lines leading into tunis, eventually supply lines an

at fort leavenworth. >> right.nd most trans people are held in one of -- that differs from their true gender. amy: you were fighting for hormone therapy. talk about that battle and ultimately winning it. >> i mean, well, i barely won it. you know, i got access to or months but, i mean, it was arbitrary. to hormones,ss but, i mean, it was arbitrary. it was based on some signature, you know, and only after a major lawsuit. you know, it wasn't really a victory, in the sense of, you know, i get access to something, but i had to fight for it. i had to fight tooth and nail for it. and so many people still have to fight to get just basic access, basic access to healthcare, especicially in prison. amy: what about the clothes you were forced to wear in prison, and also the length of your hair and why this mattered so much to you? >> well, because, i mean, i couldn't grow my hair. soso i have always wanted to grw out my -- i've always wanted to grow out my hair. grow out my hair. it's always been shortly cropped, but i was k

host: leavenworth, kansas. democrat. caller: yes. was an article in the new york times from a retired supreme court justice saying repeal the segment. the constitution is an evolving document. the founding fathers vote to be able to change according to the wills of the people. just like prohibition. and then there was an amendment to repeal prohibition. why don't we just repeal the second amendment? if we don't want to do that, let's just tax them on the guns. are referring to john paul stevens, who wrote a piece in the new york times, repeal the second amendment. he lays out the argument there. to president responded former justice stevens saying the second amendment will never be repealed. as much as democrats would like to see this happen and despite the words yesterday, no way. we need more republicans in 2018 and must always hold the supreme court. in leavenworth, kansas. democrat. you're on the air. caller: i already spoke my piece. thank you. host: nick is in sarasota, florida. i think the problem with this gun situation and o

harry: i went, i was up for leavenworth. my mom was sick at the time, so i asked if the kernel could placeget me, the only that was close by in new york was a naval college, and they did have a junior and senior course so i ended up there. whatever the kernel did, it helped get me to that college. so i went there for a year. >> any of your students from west point that really stood out to you? from your time when you are teaching here? they did at the time. i did not run across any that i can remember, maybe one or two i could remember when i was in the pentagon later, i ran across one or twtwo. >> after the naval war college, where did you go? harry: back to the 101 first air division. >> first time i campbell. harry: yep. s1.s assigned there as dawkins had a brigade in the 101st. >> the third brigade? harry: correct, but that was short-lived. after he left, colonel hardy, who had been a tactical officer , he tooks teaching, he over the brigade and i became the brigade operations officer. aerosolt was an division, as it had

whether you're in louisiana, whether you're at ntc at fort irwin, or mctp at fort leavenworth, wherever you conduct training, preparatory training at home station and training in each of those intense training environments all involve scenarios, woven through, that raise with and force commanders and soldiers to deal with these issues, to deal with issues of combatants on the battlefield, treatment of sfi s civilians you need to remove to identify and engage the enemy. we do that. we train at every course, at precommand course f, and we tra at sergeant major academy. training is different in every one of those venues because the knowledge, base of knowledge those individuals are coming in with at that point in their career is different. the experience is different. but it all goes back to their ability to return to their formations and ensure the most junior soldier understands what is expected of him or her in combat or in any operation. and that's the rule for us. it doesn't necessarily have to be a combat operation. all of this applied in kosovo. any operation, however categorized, i

i was a student and immediately after leaving, i went to fort leavenworth, kansas. i got involved in a lot of community activities. i had little kids and i had to go referee things and announce things. i also -- my wife let me build a office in the basement in the townhouse we lived in and she kept the kids away. i did the homework. most guys said this is another army school but i figured this is the next level. they also had me teaching courses there. they had me teaching on international relations and economics which i could do. i ended up winning the marshall award, which was a real honor. wes clark had won it the year before. as a result, the chief of staff of the army gets to make your next assignment. i did not know that. they did not tell me i won the award until the day before. i said, i need a assignment and they said, general rogers is the guy who was going to assign you. i need troop time. will somebody please tell him, in order to make me become a battalion commander? he will know all that. he sent me to work on the combat vehicle technology program bein

margaret, in leavenworth, kansas, democrat. hi. caller: good morning. i used to be a nurse for 30 years and one thing you cannot assume that there's the right people that have guns and the wrong ones. you can tell the mentally ill. people are human beings. they have. they can get drunk. they can have a fight with their husband or wife. they can think they are afraid. you can't judge when a human who has a gun is going to be able to use it even if they start out in what you would think is right. i would like to see a law passed that we could sue again the drugmakers for their products because think of all these people that get shot and survive. they are going to have health problems for the rest of their president you had senator life. is donald trump going to give them coverage? no. so you've got people that are terribly maimed. who is going to help them get healing t only the psychologically, but we're talking people who get put in wheelchairs, have arms blown off. and they live but there's no recourse to get the health care they are going to healing p