[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, secretary of the army, john m mchugh

burgess will now join secretary mchugh at center stage. secretary mchugh will now award mrs.he citation reads as follows. the declaration for distinguished civilian service is awarded to mrs. marta burgess or 38 years of distinguished and devoted service, taking care of united states military families and being the constant advocate for numerous quality of life related initiatives and programs on behalf of our uniformed service members and department of the army defense civilian. her care and can passion has significantly enhanced family operations and reflect great credit on yourself and the department of the army. [applause] mrs. burgess will now receive the armor certificate of appreciation. [applause] ladies and gentlemen lieutenant general ronald l. burgess junior. [applause] >> well, good morning. this morning i was doing my normal routine in an early ceremony director referred to me and i was working out in the sporting an agenda and a lot of folks were coming by, kind of interrupting my normal routine. but i didn't mind the fact that they were interrupting my normal r

point the fly right in not good enough when you saw all the right do i take great umbrage with john mchugh calling us you know not doing the right thing by not going in there are jobs we're not to have you with that said i think we have to be very careful with all we work with our allies it is the saudis turkish iranians obviously your is an ally but what you israelis and the iranians what they're doing the attention the fact that the regions are stable there are some of the weapons out there that could be given to all of the man who post we have to have some concern about and should be us and the military operation to deal with it should be the turks you know those who live there who be the ones most likely to target buyers but even if we don't think about it i am a little wetter than that and the recent past now iraq's saddam hussein used it against and how large against the kurds he used against iran during the iraq iran war i think that's terrible i think that's atrocious but what's the need was the united states intervening say oh now with this is terribly have chemical weapons afoot

i talked with with jan mchugh smith of the local humane society who told me shelters are being set up needed. >> our shelter is on thewide, but we're down -- the west side, but we're down south. we opened a temporary shelter on the east side so we could take in more animals when tuesday's firestorm happened. >> tell me about the operation. i think what you've done was such a smart move. you opened shelters right when the fires began. >> that's right. exactly a week ago on saturday. we saw the smoke, our staff jumped into action, and we put a temporary shelter at our current facility along with our homeless animals and the stray animals. that filled up in one day. immediately we got on the phone and were able to find donated space at an expo center. we went into action. there we were able to set up a shelter for emergencies, and we were taking in 165 animals. >> and how many animals -- that's how many you've taken in already, or you're still taking in more? >> well, we've taken in over 300 animals total. about 145 at our facility on the west side, and then another 165 on the east side.

burgess will join sins forced -- secretary mchugh center stage. the secretary will award mrs. burgess decoration for distinguished civilian service. the citation reads as follows. the declaration for distinguished civilian service is awarded to mrs. marta burgess for 30 years of distinguished service taking care of the united states military family and being consummate advocate for numerous quality of life related initiatives and programs on behalf of the uniformed service members in department of the army and the defense civilians. your care and compassion has significantly enhanced family support operations and reflected great credit on yourself and the department of the army. [applause] [applause] >> mrs. burgess will receive the department of the army certificate of appreciation. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, lieutenant-general ronald burgess junior. [applause] >> good morning. this morning i was doing my normal routine. in an earlier ceremony director clapper referred to me as a gym rag. i was working out this morning in the gym and a lot of folks were coming by kind o

there was a statement that army secretary mchugh made middle of last year, it's been a tradition of dividing the budget. he is not expecting that will or should change. when it came to the f.y. 2013 request, the army share of the budget increased. it increased more than the navy's share. the air force's decreased. so as you see all these so as you see all these strategic things being