>> guest: marine corp. history, naval history, classes on afghanistan and civil military relations. >> host: can the mid shipmen transition into the marine corp.? do any transition??? >> guest: roughly 20% each year. it's a? competitive selection? process, more ship mep who want? to be marines than there are? slots for them. they can transition well. we hav?e a number of marines i? the classroom and company staffs who give them familiarization with the culture. >> host: professor, when you served on active duty, did you serve on a ship? >> guest: i didn't.?? that's rare. i'm the exception because 12 of? the 17 years were reserve time, and it's less likely to be on a ship. >> host: before we started the interview, you mentioned that you went to yale, and that rotsy was on campus. is that prohibited on any campuses anymore? >> guest: no, it's illegal to prohibit them, but schools have not brought them back yet after the 1960s. they are coming back, and yale started president it's been positive at yale

the marine corps, the marine corps will cease to exist. >> i teach marine corps history. i teach naval history as well. i teach some classes on afghanistan and civil military relations. >> so, can the midshipman transition into the ma?rine?? corps???????? ?? any ship over there????? >> after the roughly 20% each year go to the marine corps. it's a very competitive selection?? process.???? ?there's marines who want to?? become then there are slots for? them. they can transition quite well. we had a number of marines here at the naval academy, both in?? the classroom in them and their company staff, who give them show is a familiarization culture. >> professor o'connell from whe? he served on active duty, did you ever serve on a ship? >> i never did, which is rare. i'm an exception.?? 12 for my 17 years were reserved time and it's less spend time at ownership as a reserve. >> you mentioned you were io and that rocks in his back on campus. is it prohibited on many campuses anymore? >> no, it's illegal to prohibit them, but many schools have not got

marines have a propaganda? machine.kes a this gets and then sell much trouble that is then theyor t mobilize the coalition in blow response to truman blow up.ve? >> host: are you a 1995,? marmion? >> i joined in 1995 straight out of college. in from hartford connecticut. ti i served on active duty and in the reserves ever since. now i am and cod nidal per gries served in afghanistan one year-ago then the pentagon. also at camp with juneut and ina in south bend indiana. te >> what are the tensions? there is said dependent relationship? of >> i would not say that nowtoo but you can hide in the past re with that too much work in the present but it is a? su remarkable success story. nes in this interesting in the 40's the navy says we take??? care of you.??????? ? pay for the equipment that you use. you should be happy that we are here. after the amphibious forces the story changes. now they say don't cut the funding you don't of the ?rine task forces.??????? it is a little reverse.????? the

the marine corps, the marine? corps will cease to exist. >> host: what you teach at the marine corps academy? >> guest: i teach marine corps history, naval history, classes off afghanistan and civil military relations.??? >> host: so, can the?? midshipman transition into the marine? corps?????? ?ende midshipman transition??? >> guest: it's a very?????? competitive process. there were more than want? to? become marines nr slots? for? them.?? ?ey can? transition quite wel. we have a number of points at the naval academy, both in the classroom and in their company staffs, to give them shall we say familiarization with marine corps culture. ..??????????????? from the students to bring it back then there was in the faculty but the faculty did not resist it in any way and my old? dissertation committee members? now teaching the naval history class after paul kennedy. >> brand new book out on the market "underogs" is the name of it the making of the modern marine corps, marine an

with the marine corps training on top of that, you know, it's the same thing in the marine corps. they just pounded him you even more. how did i not die that day? i don't know. i can't even begin to tell you. i do not know how i didn't die that day. every day that we have to live on is a bonus day. if you go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning, that's a bonus. we always worry about tomorrow when we just get through today. thank you. >> assad. >> you know, i don't ever want them to look back at me and say, oh, you made me do this, i don't want the guilt on my hands is something that happens to them. saying hey, i push you into this. i will give them the fact that they need to know so they can make their own decisions. that is all we can do. you can never make anyone's mind up for them. if you don't go to college, i do recommend going into the military. and i'm going to say the marines, of course, because i'm biased. [laughter] >> yes, ma'am? >> no, i don't. she said i'm not wearing my mail today. do i ever were? no, i do not. the only time i where it is when i am required

we would live with two marines -- three marines, one navy corpsman and 80 afghans on a base.ou want to talk about complete culture shock. i can tell you right now, i got one. we did everything with these afghans from eating to drinking to building volleyball courts to mission planning to hearing about their stories of their lives. and it really helped us become a solid unit, and we learned to depend on one another and rely on one another, and i want to talk about the afghans later on because of what the current events are. but i have to tell you one of the best lessons i think this taught me was, is not to look at the world and not to judge people by their religion, their skin color, their financial status or anything like that, but to accept them for who they are. because, you know, i have to tell you, i'm guilty of having what i like to call the small town complex. coming from a small town, i've got it. but it's where you think your world's only this big and that's how it is because that's how you're taught. i'm 24, and i know that's not the case anymore. we always do that.

some enlisted in the marine corps. on june 18th, 2006, which i want to let you know is a date that i will never forget, i shipped off to paris island and this is where i would spend my 18th birthday. happy birthday, right? but it's not really as bad as the next three birthdays because my 19th birthday i was in sniper school hell week. my 20th birthday i was in hell week of sniper school mountain training in bridgeport, california. so i had a lot of good birthdays piffling parris island, i was shipped off to north carolina where it completed the infantry training. after that, i went off to hawaii where i would be stationed the next four years. and this is where i also attended sniper school. so, after attending sniper school i quickly shipped off to iraq. and in iraq i didn't get to complete my tour because i was bitten on my right hand by a vicious slider and i actually suffered severe nerve damage plan to let everyone in the room know that the enemy will stop at nothing. they even train the spiders to bite us. [laught

. >> i talked a little bit about mou's and relationships with the marines. maybe we can talk about how is the national guard and dod resources and capabilities integrated into the command and control at the fire and also the supporting ops centers whether it be the gac or other centers down there. maybe our military personnel can talk about that, or ray. >> it's important to note that we are the supporting effort to cal fire and we get called in when they are basically out of assets. we are working for cal fire, they are the incident commanders, we follow their coordination, typically we're the last ones in and the first ones out. we do have an on-going relationship with cal fire, i'm in contact with cal fire all the time. we have good situational awareness what's going on in the state of california. they normally put us in an alert stat us so we're prepared to respond in an attack mode. i don't often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout northern california if that answers you

we greatly respect navy, marine corps and guard safety policy. cal fire has an aviation policy as well. we work cooperatively with the agencies here at the table to ensure when we are engaged in an aerial fire fighting event we are working within each other's policies. we have trained in a work around, we can do close air support with navy and marine corps aircraft, with the current system we have. would we like to improve upon it? absolutely. we have gone very high up in the organization to try and look at getting the r210 radio modified to the point where it can work on our vhf spectrums, that's one of our challenges we need to move forward with. but overall we're confident when we do call upon dod assets to integrate with civilian aircraft, the training regimen we put forth will keep aircrews safe and also have them be effective. there was a lot of questions from a political level as well as a public level. you've got aircraft sitting at north island, just launch them, get them in the fight. it was hard to explain to them that that's a very de

first marine decision, first marine expeditionary force forward entered southwest afghanistan during 2009. we arrived in 2010 so it was a bit more stable. and we went straight to helman and nimruz province. very complex dynamic environment that we were operating in but before i begin it talk to you about the operational picture, i just want to give you a snapshot of afghanistan. when we got there i want to set the frame here so you understand what we're dealing with. afghanistan ranged 180th out of 1 86 on the world bank list of developed countries. 20 percent of the babies won't reach their first year of life. there is a 44 year life span for your average citizen. it has a less than 20 percent literacy rate and girls in afghanistan will marry by the time they are 15 and will likely birth their second child by the time they are 20. so this is the long-term effects of violence and civil wars within a failed state by every measure. the marines who are currently still in southwest afghanistan, they are surrounded by very conservative culture. in 2010, this is not true now but narco traf

we have major general mike meyer, retired marine corps. he is the chairman of the board for the san francisco fleet week association. we have joanne hayes white fire chief, monique moyer from the port, ann crone enberg department of emergency management. and i have to emphasize the partnership fleet week has with the department of emergency management goes beyond your imagination and the work we do together to create this disaster response program. we also have consul general doyle from the canadian consul. we have commander foster from the coast guard, colonel chet jolly, [speaker not understood] from the united states navy. and of course we have somebody who is an incredible supporters of the fleet week program, mayor ed lee who i am going to turn over the microphone to now. (applause) >> thank you, lewis. welcome. this is the beginning of a great number of events in our city, but i have to say fleet week is really one of my best events. it's one that i've celebrated since just being here and senator feinstein helped reignite it. we were

from secretaries and generals to marin county search and rescue over there to nert members, it's a great mix of people and i think that integration is crucial because when we're preparing before during and after a disaster response, everyone in this room has a role to play in one way or another. and it's a great mix. and having been a former fire fighter this topic is important to me. when you think about one point, 1 million fire fighters around the country, they take 2 million calls a year or more to help people in times of need. 63,000 wild fires get beyond their initial attack capability every year, burning over 6.7 million acres. there are over 95 percent effective, they do a great job, but every so often you get that season or that issue that is going to escape or go beyond their ability to stop it right away and right now currently the u.s. forest service that helps provide a lot of air resources and seasonal fire fighters is at the point at the end of that season where every pay period they have to justify keeping those air aviation contracts in place. when you come to the end of

we work closely with cal guard, navy and marine corps aviation. we do that with squadron training. still have khal lefrpg wills, i'm not going to lie to you. we have issues where tactical to air communication is difficult. cal guard, we purchased the radios for national guard aircraft and they installed them in their aircraft so we have robust communications with california national guard, with navy and marine corps it's still a work in progress. we have a work around with that with respect to tactical communications and we use coordinating helicopters to handle air to ground tactical situations and that is relayed to the aircraft that are in trail. it's not perfect but it's a work around and it keeps everybody in the fight. >> prior to 20011 2011 the navy fire fighting capability was concentrated in one squadron. in 2011 it began to expand to other helicopter squadrons. one consequence of that would be multiple squadrons providing aircraft to cal fire to support the fire fighting effort and one somewhat simple but very effective solution was the use of defense connect on line, the

i'm with first marine briged. i've been coming to san francisco since may for the planning efforts and i got to participate in the com drill with 6 marines and we were dispersed from all 3 different sites. >> good morning, everybody, my name is michelle geddis, i'm with the san francisco department of emergency management, i'm responsible for the project management ofrs and one of our major programs is the interoperatability program. so i was more than delighted to be part of this com exercise, i was able to be an evaluator at the ocean beach location and we have a lot of lessons learned to talk about. thanks. >> one of the challenges that we have in civilian and also you as military is that common operating picture. how do we make sure that all of our resources in the field, back in the command post, have the same operating picture and we can ensure that we have an unity of effort of everyone. and with the command and control exercise that we started with, this was one great opportunity for the military and the c

how long in the marine corps?rs, sir. >> pelley: number of combat deployments? >> davis: four, altogether. >> pelley: and you made first sergeant. >> davis: yes, sir. >> pelley: leader of marines. >> davis: yes, sir. >> pelley: it was a good life. >> davis: yes, sir. >> pelley: let us show you two pictures of arthur davis. this one, with the president, was taken in 2006, in afghanistan, when davis was in charge of our embassy security there. this is a mug shot they took a couple of years later in the harris county jail, one year after his retirement from the corps. >> davis: one of the things i... i swore that i'd never do was go to jail. and for seven days, i was in the county jail, trying to figure out what was i going to do, thinking about all the things that i screwed up on, all the hard work that i've put myself through to get to this point in my life where i could say, you know, "i did a good job." and i screwed it all up. i thought my life was over. >> pelley: it could have been over. he faced up to 20 year

life but i obtained this report, there would be significant and unavoidable harm to hundreds of marine mammals. >> we have seen beachings of marine mammals around the world following large noises. >>> they say the state used better and more recent science that are better, less risky methods to explore the faults. >> you can get better, reliable data by going at it another way. >> reporter: puplic comment period is -- public comment period is open for the next three weeks. health and science editor john fowler ktvu channel 2 news. >>> if you live or work in the walnut creak area, two lanes of this road will be closed in both directions tomorrow through friday from ten p.m. to 5:00 a.m -- 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. they will be making road repairs. >>> today is the thirdpad spayd in a row. -- third spare the air day in a row. ktvu's chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking cooler weather. >> got nowhere to go but get cooler. today is the hottest day of the week. dry and drown out there. one thing i picked up earlier on the 5:00 p.m. news, fairfield, the winds out of the east, off shore.

why were there no marines there in the first place? whoever made that decision, it was an unwise decision to put an ambassador in one of the most dangerous countries on earth and have no marines there to protect him. whoever made that decision should be fired immediately. the president said the bus stops with him. ck stopsllary -- the bul with him. he or hillary clinton needs to have the buck stopped with them. >> who told susan rice when she went on the morning shows that the film was the reason for the spontaneous demonstration. who do you think told her and jay carney to talk about it as the videotape being responsible for the demonstration? >> i do not know. that is what has made it worse for the administration. this went on for about two weeks. they have been kibitzing over something over whether the president said it was terrorism or not terrorism. they said it was primarily because of this movie. they spent money apologizing to the people of pakistan as if somehow the american government or the american people have something to

. >> host: can the midshipmen transition intodo the marine corps? >> they do. procroughly.? it is a competitive selection and process. a num there are more spots but a serv number of marines year inikely o the classroom that give them familiarization with culture. >> host: professor on active duty did you serve on a ship? >> that is rare. no. it is an exception. 12 of my years were reserve that makes it less likely. >> host: you mentioned you let and rotc is back on campus. is that prohibited any more? to >> it is illegal to preventem but many schools have not brought them back from the 1960's.ale yield just are the airforce and unable program.positive ata. response has been very positive. there was more impetus from the students and the faculty but they did not resist in any way. my old this edition -- dissertation is teaching the class in. >> host: a brand new book, underdog is the name, then making a of the modern marine corps. professor o'connell is the author. >> u.s. naval academy professor the old army in "war and peace" with the mean by the

corps and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i went over and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he's going to have some interesting perspectives about working in the police department in a war zone. lieutenant commander patricia serrano, her assignments have been varied includes working as a immediate vaek core man, a legal clerk and a tqm instructor. she completed a 7-month deployment. captain mike napolitano is serving with the navy's expedition training group. while deployed in 2004, he spearheaded maritime patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian oce t

corps and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i went over and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he's going to have some interesting perspectives about working in the police department in a war zone. lieutenant commander patricia serrano, her assignments have been varied includes working as a immediate vaek core man, a legal clerk and a tqm instructor. she completed a 7-month deployment. captain mike napolitano is serving with the navy's expedition training group. while deployed in 2004, he spearheaded maritime patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as commanding officer of the expeditionary training group. this is a fabulous panel and i know you're going to appreciate what they have to say. rear admiral, i think you'll start. >> first of all on behalf of the chilean navy i would like to thank so much to san francisco fleet week, particul

plus, a marine's best friend. the incredible lengths one dog went to to stay with its master in a war zone. >>> first, a mother in labor, a father stuck in traffic, and big brother in panic mode. news4's erica has the story of one family forced to deliver their baby on the side of the beltway. >> 7 pounds, 6 ounces, he let out a good cry. it's the way he made his grand debut that could make his story one for the box office. >> i trusted him with, you know, not just my life, with our son. >> stacy ann was already 39 weeks and scheduled to be induced, but baby aaron had other plans. >> she felt intense contractions. >> they got in the car and started driving. >> the only way to stop the pain is if i get him out. >> forcing dad to call for help. >> prince george's county 911 emergency center. >> i'm on the beltway heading northbound to the hospital. my wife's water broke. >> there on the side of 495, it happened. >> he's breathing. >> gently wipe off his mouth and nose. >> okay. >> and cry hdry him off with a towel.