than 20 times faster than our navy. 20 times faster than our navy. at a rate of about 11 ships annually and the capability of those ships is increasing as well. the stuff they have is new stuff and that is pretty scary. our navy has a key role to play in this competition, however i am concerned that the navy may be out of balance in each of these areas. our ships appear under -- undermanned with destroyers manning roughly 85%, under maintained with more than 6% of -- 60% of ships running along and maintenance and more than $1.8 billion in maintenance needs are unfunded, and the third area under equipped, the key capabilities like fully functional forward class carriers and the combat ship missions are significantly delayed. overall it seems to me that the navy is having trouble maintaining today's fleet of 291 ships and the challenges will only grow as the fleet surpasses 300 ships by 2020, 310 by 2022 on the way to our 355 ship navy. admiral, this is not just the problems that we have. you have had an operational career. you were involved in all of

and the navy concluded, no higgins amphibian. who in the navy makes these decisions? i'd like to introduce you to a fellow. he fell into an interesting position as an individual called a supervisor of ship building. now, we don't hear about supervisors of ship building in the grand tales of naval history in world war ii. we hear about battles such as midway or the coral sea or such. but he was ultimately cast to a desk job, state side where he worked for the duration of the war. and what his job was ultimately to be the liaison between the bureau of ships and fmc and other contractors to actually build the amphibian tractor. his job was literally to translate the strategic requirements such as we anticipate that we need 5,000 of these or 10,000 of these vehicles in anticipation of the next campaign season where we're going to rip into the central pacific or march from the southwest pacific forward. we need a certain quantity. and he would articulate that, work with fmc and its designers, its corporate bosses to adjudicate their concerns and mass-produce such things. p

while in the navy he served on staff of the sixth fleet, us fleet forces command, the navy staff and the joint staff. mark served as commander of the u.s. navy's military sealift command from october 2009, to march 2013 which is where i had the opportunity to meet him for the first time and as former boss admiral john harper. we look forward to your remarks this morning. if you would please join me in welcoming our maritime administrator, admiral mark busby to the podium. [applause] >> thank you and good morning. a pleasure to be with you. when mike mentioned this opportunity was available and bacon was going to be served i said yes immediately. i kept the bar fairly low in that respect. any day you start with bacon has got to be a good day but great to be here with you. thank you for getting up early and spending part of the day here. good to see you, thanks for being here. admiral fox, admiral church, good to see you again, sammy and i were staying on a beach together in haiti after the earthquake in 2010. a pair of binoculars looked like macarthur standing on the beach. i was brin

why hasn't the navy? you know why? they're not interested in it because they're part of the corruption and development process that he ago going on. that is really what's behind this. the profiteering and development and politicians who were paid off by the developers to make this project go forward on a radio active dump, it's insane, it's criminal, and the people behind it should be prosecuted and investigated, and they will be. and those people and this board who approve this and cover it up are going to be held personally responsible, as well, because you have this information. even the san francisco chronicle reported that aimee brownell had been selling homes when she was working for the department of public health in san francisco. >> thank you, mr. seltzer. is there any other public comment? seeing none, i will close public comment and turn to my fellow commissioners for any questions. anybody have any questions? >> i do. i have to collect my thoughts. >> yes, commissioners. >> as she collects her thoughts, dr.

and almost half of the royal navy, it's a greatest navy they have seen.almost half of it is here in america fighting and they don't have nearly enough ships to do all the things that are required of the navy against the insurgency even though we don't really have any b. so yes, you don't want to over stress the linkages between them but certainly you can hear rams. [applause] thank you,. >> you can buy the book at the checkout desk. please form a line. and please fold up your tears. .

i love the navy. i want to do however long they will keep me in the navy. i appreciate everything and my parents are proud. i'm the only one in my family and i'm talking about decades that have joined the military. they don't understand what is being in the military. they appreciate me but they don't understand. i'm married to my loving husband, we've been married 16 years. he's also active duty in the navy. he was enlisted and we've been happily married, we have two kids. an 11-year-old and a 9-year-old. they are the reason i keep going. we did a deployment, south america and i learned a lot about that culture. i really appreciate that. i went through different seek commands throughout the navy and then i joined orf was selected for the program three years ago. it has been one of the highlights of my career. i love it. i will do it again, i would do anything. one thing i will always take back my two brothers who joined the navy after i did, i was the first one, my brothers enlisted after. i'm proud of them if they are proud of me. i'm just happy to be here

and almost half of the royal navy, it's a greatest navy they have seen.almost half of it is here in america fighting and they don't have nearly enough ships to do all the things that are required of the navy against the insurgency even though we don't really have any b. so yes, you don't want to over stress the linkages between them but certainly you can hear rams. [applause] thank you,. >> you can buy the book at the checkout desk. please form a line. and please fold up your tears. [inaudible conversations] >> this weekend on book tv, saturday at 555 eastern, worn pharaoh discusses his book the boy crisis, why boys are struggling and what we can do about it. the parent is what makes boys and girls feel that they liked, have friends, that's what prevents him from going into depression and will boys do not have that, they tend to go down a slippery slope that can and the worst case scenario moved to depression, anger, withdrawal, a newly nation and mass shooting. >> at eight eastern in her book such a pretty girl, disability rights activist who contracted

again, most of that property is controlled by the navy. in 2012, the navy discovered and investigated some irregularities in the data from the contractor, and in 2016, after a complete investigation, the navy determined that the data from the contractor was not reliable and it would need to be looked at again. if you go back to the map, you will be able to see where parcel g. is located, and that work plan is currently under review by the regulatory agencies involved in the cleanup of shipyard, phase two. so as i mentioned earlier, there's a few parcels that were transferred to ocii in 2015 from shipyard phase two. this is a zoom in. this -- a lot of them are the roadways, the network known as the chris rhodes that is out there, as well as parcel be two that is out there. all of this land is under a protected cap. it will have additional checking , as well. know i would like to introduce anthony to and gonzalez perez. i will let the commission know that we noted that they have been out to the community as well as the, giving informational

navy --d like cap, old navy, banana republic lower than forecast. >> yes, the old navy comp was down expected. 7%, but in line with consensus. the biggest disconnect was weakness in banana republic and old navy. romaine: old navy had been the bright spot for gap. what happens if old navy is on a down trend and this is more than a one-quarter blip? what is the outlook? gap is struggling to get the product right. banana republic has had this issue. with old navy, it is just surfacing again. i don't think it is the value arena. i think value is still doing well. we saw that with ross, tjx. the customer is seeking value, but given the decline on old navy, it seems like the product was missed and they need to fix that. how do they go about fixing it? it looks like they're saying it is a challenging environment, but they are confident in the strength of their brands. is it the environment they will blame? do analysts need to see a wholesale change? and old navy, they can't blame the environment anymore than they have been, especially old navy. traffic at stores is down, but that hasn't per

navy. >> why was the u.s. military in cuba in 1898? >> it can be complicated. and at times not so complicated but there was a lot of sympathy for the cost for the freedom of cubans. newspapers shared stories of atrocities shared by the government, the people who live there. another important event, the explosion of the uss in the harbor, all those things combined to bring the u.s. and april and may of 1898. we don't really know exactly what happened in the main. there is an explosion with the battleship there, there were two different independent studies done. once by the u.s. government, once by the spanish government. the u.s. government determined it was a submarine mine that caused the explosion. they determined it was an internal explosion. we don't really know for sure exactly but there were lots of jumping to conclusions. a lot of americans instantly blamed spain. they said it was a dirty trick of the government against the battleship, more than 200 lives lost. that brought a lot of sympathy based mostly on the belief that spain was behind. >> is one of

you know pumped into into into the navy but. when this is being built in any society and policy makers in any in any government and there we gradually been resourced. but more needs to be done in a region where piracy kidnappings and theft of oral are growing problem in 2016 jury alone estimated its losses at more than a $1000000000.00 a month experts say the economies of the region rich in oil and fishing cannot sustain such a drain on resources all right let's get more on this growing menace joining us now from london michael hallett michael is the deputy director of the international maritime bureau at a director of i.c.c. commercial crime services the anti crime unit of the i.c.c. could tell you with us michael so what's behind the rise of piracy off the coast of guinea as we were hearing a strategically important region for world trade. there is a a serious frets to the safety and security of seafarers in the region and this freight has been there for many years. almost 80 percent of crew kidnappings and 95 percent of crews

now head over to bill brown who is with those navy seals. is he a former navy seal himself.xcited. >> you can expect a lot of good guys to do a lot of great things. we are going to swim. we are going to do some pushups. we will do some pull-ups to honor our nation's freedom and liberties. go to ellis island and going to swim and do some pushups and pull-ups to honor all the men and women who came to this nation for a better life celebrate our nation's diversity. then do the long stretch all the way to battery park. we are going to do a flag run. we are going to go to the special forces first responder statue and 9/11 memorial. drop some pushups and pull-ups to honor all of those who died on 9/11. griff: bill, let me ask you one question. pete is on his way now to you guys. have you come up with a contingency plan should he struggle throughout this swim? >> yes. we have a good buddy of mine cars larson who is going to be his lifeguard on duty. his swim buddy. we will make sure he is in good hands. we have a little life vest for him so he will be fine. griff: do you have a con

we're going to do navy, navy now and ask admiral a question and then admiral blair. the question for you admiral is about the defense forces. as i said the most respected institution, organization in japan right now in polls, but one of the biggest challenges, of course, is people, getting enough people and i've heard that in order to fully staff the defense forces, japan will have to have the level of women participating in the military that, for example, the u.s. and australia have. the u.s. and australia have about 17%, i think, 17% of the force are women. and japan i think is 6% or so. so i'm asking in part because it's rare at csis, in fact, we never have panels that are all men anymore and i'm certain-- we will probably -- we get a lot of heat for that. and i'm certain before too long we will have prominent representation not om only from the u.s. and japan for senior leadership women. it's a question for defense forces how to get more women empowered, engageled promoted in the forces. and you must have thought about that as chairman yourself. what are your vie

the navy says it will follow through.tors whose awards are being pulled unsuccessfully tried eddie gallagher for murder. the president had previously intervened in the case, helping facilitate gallagher's move. and congratulating him when he was cleared of the most serious charges last month. the prosecutors is ridiculously given a navy medal. they had difficulty with respect to information that may have been obtained and forefor giving immunity in a totally inappropriate fashion. you have the president's intervention. should he have done that? but first the medals. the star prosecution witness changed his story, he said, actually, he killed this isis militant that eddie gallagher did not. many experts believe he succumbed to pressure to change his story. if so, that's not the prosecution's fault. the prosecutors made serious -- objectively serious terrible errors, one being they tracked the tracking software and emails, in the end they lost the case, should they have been given these medals? no, they should not. the reas

navy fighter pilot is that after his jet crashed during a routine training exercise was the navy confirmed pilot was throwing in f-18 similar to this when you see here, in death valley, california, 7 people on the ground were injured. the area known as a good place to a large military aircraft. the identity of the pilot has not been released but the navy confirms they took off from naval station lee more. the navy's top admiral drops all charges against eddie gallagher, lieutenant jacob was set to sais trials charged with covering up gallagher's war crimes after gallagher, decorated navy seal was acquitted of murdering and isis prisoner in 2017. the navy saying the decision came from chief naval operation admiral john richardson who ordered a full review of jack ohr. john richardson took this in the best interests of justice and the navy. donald trump just ordered the navy to rescind all metals awarded to gallagher's prosecutors as well. i mentioned this to you. the youngest senator in congress known for taking on big tech and tackling social media addiction head on. >> what innovation hav

navy. to his right is general oriki, he retired from active duty in 2012 after serving as the third chief of staff in japan which was during 311. he had to show leadership to the japanese people and earned enormous respect for that. saw the self-defense forces rise to be the most respected institution in japan in public opinion polls. to his right, admiral blair. he is well-known to many of us here. chairman of the board and senior fellow. he served as director of national intelligence from 2009 through 2010. he had a distinguished active-duty career in the u.s. navy and retired after 34 years including as a commander-in-chief area to his shigeru general iwasaki. inretired from active duty 2014 after serving as the fourth chief of staff of the japanese joint staffs. generalight is the vincent brooks who serves on the board of directors of the gary sinise foundation. he served as the 15th commander of the u.n. command during a very consequential time from 2016 through 2018 and before that wa

and why did i join the navy lacks i was actually engaged or joined the summer camp in the navy and then a thought this is exciting. so i just continued. [laughing] [applause] >> jenny, you mention conscription. maybe you could talk a a little bit more about how that actually works in sweden, and let's talk about it in both australia and denmark as well. >> as i said, we reintroduced this in 2018, and that is because of security situation in baltic sea. and it was a gender neutral. that means but is that everybody. we don't need all 18 year olds in this, that is bored, for example, 2001. but we come everybody that turned 18 in sweden, male and female, have to fill in a form where they describe themselves, what background they have, et cetera, et cetera. and then out of those, a number is selected to do tests, and then we pick out the ones that is most suitable. doesn't come has nothing to do with gender, just the most suitable person that fits the requirements that we find. so that is how it's working. and you do your conscription and then it is between four and 15 months. and from that

the navy believes it could do even more with increased funding. not enough resources. you know pumped into into into the navy but gradually awareness is being built in society and the policy makers in any in any government and there we gradually been resourced. but what needs to be done in a region where piracy kidnappings and theft of oral are growing problem in 2016 jury alone estimated its losses at more than a $1000000000.00 a month experts say the economies of the region rich in oil and fishing cannot sustain such a drain on resources all right let's get more on this growing menace joining us now from london michael hallett michael is the deputy director of the international maritime bureau and a director of i.c.c. commercial crime services the anti crime unit of the i.c.c. could tell you with us michael so what's behind the rise of piracy off the coast of guinea as we were hearing a strategically important region the world trade. there is a a serious frets to the safety and security of seafarers in the region and this freight has been there for many years. almost

and why did i joined the navy? i was actually engaged to join the youth summer camps in the navy and i thought, this would be exciting. i just continued. [laughter] [applause] >> jenny, you mentioned conscription. maybe you could talk a little bit more about how that actually works. >> at this and we reintroduced this in 2018 and that is of course the security situation involving overseas. and it was a gender-neutral, that means but it's not everybody. we don't need all the 18-year-olds that are born in 2001 for example. but everybody that turns 18 in sweden, male and female, has to fill in a form where they describe themselves, the background they have etc. then out of those a number is selected to do tests and then we pick out the one that is most suitable. it doesn't have nothing to do with gender. just the most suitable person that fits requirements that we find. you do your conscription and then it's between four and 15 months. from that we recruit the enlisted sailors and soldiers in specialist officer commis

he was the assistant secretary of the navy. he was 39 years old at the time. and he was trying to prepare the united states for war. which looked like it was coming. making sure there was call at various ports. to use to get to the caribbean and in the event of war. just naval preparedness. he is really trying to prepare and get that fleets ready in case war broke out just the way it was going down help between spain and the united states at the time. william mckinley. he was the president at the time. jokingly referred to theater roosevelt as the row --dash role -- the war party. they felt like the united states should intervene mostly because the atrocities that were with the population there. and this was the cause of the war. it was one of the main causes. there was a lot of sympathy. the cubans were trying to get their freedom a lot of sympathy in the united states to help them get rid of this yoke of spain. here is this colony. at still still in existence in 1898. he really wasn't a fan of having the influence of the old world and the new world. he would

navy because cbs news has learned of a letter from the commander in charge of the navy seals, warninghat, "we have a problem." jan crawford leads off our reporting tonight with some of the disturbing details. >> reporter: in his letter, rear admiral collin green says the order and discipline problem must be addressed immediately so the seals can recalibrate our culture and regain our credibility. it was the seals who killed osama bin laden, a respect for their heroism has been undermined by a series of high- profile scandals, most recently osseals platoon kicked out of iraq after a drunken fourth of july party and allegations of sexual assault. those seals were from the same team as eddie gallagher, who was found not guilty of murder in the stabbing death of an isis fighter but convicted of unlawfully posing with an enemy corpse. and still other scandals. two seals implicated in the hazing death of special forces sergeant logan melgar. and cocaine and other drug use in seal team 10. cbs news obtained an internal navy investigation that revealed seals passing drug tests by swapping out

why did i join the navy? in the summer camps in the navy. i thought, this is exciting, so i just continued. [laughter][applause] >> you mentioned conscription. maybe you can talk a little bit more about how that actually works in sweden. let's talk about in both australia and denmark as well. itin sweden we reintroduced in 2018. that is because of the security situation in the baltic sea. it was gender-neutral. it is not everybody. we do not need although the born, fords that is example, in 2001. sweden, who turns 18 in male and female, has to fill in a form where they describe themselves. what background they have, et cetera, et cetera. out of those, number are selected to do tests. ones that aree the most suitable. it has nothing to do with gender, just the most suitable person that fits the requirements that we find. that is how it is working. you do your conscription, and it is between four and 15 months. the that, we recruit enlisted sailors and soldiers, our specialist officers, our commission officers, and our reservists. militaryto d

navy, donald trump ordered the navy to rescind all metals recently awarded to gallagher's prosecutorshow about this story? this trump supporter wants police to take action after he was assaulted for wake making -- wearing a make america great again hat. >> got bombarded. kind of ridiculous to get beat up by this for wearing a hat. >> group of teens attacked him after he but they had at trump tower, he said one of them slammed his face fracturing his cheekbone. police make an arrest, the nypd said he didn't mention the hat in his report. rob: just 7 democrats have qualified for the third round of debates according to analysis by the new york times. joe biden, bernie sanders foreign, 140,000 unique donors and 2% support in different polls to qualify for the september debate. democrats reached those requirements by august 20th. michael moore not satisfied with any of the 2020 democratic candidates but does have one person he would like to see in the oval office. >> there is one person that would crush trump and she hasn't announced yet and her last name rhymes with obama. in fact it is o

entrust your heart to entresto. >>> the admiral year seeing the navy s.e.a.l.s refers to navy core values >> hi, brooke. you will remember there have been a number of very high profile cases of misconduct in the elite navy s.e.a.l.s organization, allegations of alcohol use, sexual assault, misconduct on the battlefield, a whole slew of events. that led colin green, the head of navy s.e.a.l.s to write a memo a couple weeks ago saying, we have a problem. that got worldwide attention actually, and green ordered fixes within days. and now today we have admiral green's new memo about just how very unhappy he is about what's going on, and what hen watts to do about it, let me start with him saying right off 9 top, he says, our force has drifted from our navy core values of honor, courage and commitment and he says it's due to a lack of action at all levels of leadership. he goes on to say, the drift stop now, it doesn't get much tougher than that. the actions admiral green is ordering, there will be more direct oversight over any allegations of misconduct, more attention paid to issues of misco

navy sea chanters and the band for that beautiful rendition of our national anthem. beautiful, and thank you very much. fantastic job. thank you. thank you. we're gathered here today to celebrate the swearing-in of america's new secretary of defense, mark t. esper. secretary esper, your lifetime of noble service has prepared you for this immense responsibility. and that's what it is -- immense responsibility. on behalf of our entire country, thank you and congratulations. congratulations. [applause] mr. trump: i have no doubt, i know you well, that you will thrive in the performance of your duties and make all americans, everybody in this great country, all americans very, very proud. they're right now very proud, but they're going to be even more so as time goes by. people love our country more than ever, and our country is respected again. remember that. i'm delighted that many members of your family could be here for this special occasion, including your wonderful wife leah, your mother polly, and your children luke and katherine. thank you. thank you very much. c

>> i can't speak for the navy. i suspect not. once the flights were over, the ships seemed to disappear from the inventory. it worked well for what we needed. mothball madee think about the ticonderoga. we used it on apollo 16 and 17. that was it for the ship. what i remember is i kept seeing chairs, a lot and of furniture taken in and thrown into the ocean, because that was the ship's last sale and they were getting ready to decommission it. by the time we get back onto the west coast, i don't know what we got into, but that carrier was really high in the water. they jumped up a lot of weight [inaudible] >> can you tell us about your feelings about being involved on the recovery of apollo and >> i hope i'ms? answering your question. was a longer duration. there was concern about the condition of the crew once they splashdown. at that time, we decided we were the the crew inside the command module. instead of them getting out and getting to the helicopter. they could have done that if they needed to. -- we weren't knowledgeable e

and t tm keepingg british navy safe.the 19th of july, iran's revolutionary guard forces called -- theheecame pawns in standoff although h britain and tehran denied they would swap for each other, they are our expectations it t may be releasd afteter it is free. saidday after moon jae-in momentum for dialogue with the north remains alive, a blunt rebuttal was issued saying it has no current plans to talk to seoul. 6 projectiles were fired in aa month. to protest wargames between their -- popolice in a ball away -- in zimbabwe fired tear gas. protest corruption and economic's management of the current government. the gathering was banned by police on thursday and a judge throughout a petition to overturn that ban. the opposition is set to nominate an economist as the prime minister. it is the first step to shaping the transitional government, which will shape the way for free and fair elections after months of protests pushed the prime minister out of a job act in april. >> smiles and laughter all around, the sudanese oppo

navy. iiki,s right is general o he retired from active duty in 2012 after serving as the third chief of staff in japan which was during 311. he had to show leadership to the people anddal -- earned enormous respect for -- rising to be the most respected institution in japan in public opinion polls. to his right, admiral blair. he served asterisk are of national intelligence from 2009 through 2010. he had a distinguished staff and retired after 34 years including as commander-in-chief. , is now special advisor to the cabinet. he retired from active duty in 2014 after serving as the fourth chief of staff and the 31st chief of staff. general vincent brooks who currently serves on the board of directors of the gary sinise foundation serving as the 15th commander of the during aforces command consequential time from 2016 through 2018 and before that was four-star in command of u.s. army forces. the admiral is executive advisor to the ministry of defense retiring from active duty in 2019 after se

>> the navy. >> he thinks the navy can aid him and he can retreat via the navy. through a late march of the french and americans jointly they are going to surround corn wallace on the peninsula and the french navy is going to cut off the british navy. so you're literally going to have a siege of yorktown where you're going to have serious injury works built and cornwallace doesn't have a way out and he's going to be forced to surrender. the british band plays the song "the world turned upside down," this is the allergy major battle of the revolution. it will carry on for a couple more years but this is it. why do the british stop fighting? why do you think? why do they stop fighting? they could have continued this war. there's a full army in new york. >> there was nobody left loyal to them in the country. >> you still have loyalists. you have to win over the hearts and minds of americans, and that's problematic. >> expensive. >> this is costly. >> wasn't also there was issues in france. >> by this point the french are in, the dutch are in, the spanish are financi

you can't convict the navy of that. it's note navy. but there were people who wanted those stay buried. and they're not that important to me. my book is not what those people. my book is john chap morning the greatest hero we have indiana 50 years the brotherhood of deadliest individuals you never heard of but the process began and they reported back to secretary of the air force, we have something here, and i'll spare you the details because it's administrative and boring, but at the end of the day, john's package ended up at the white house with barack obama, and the waning days of his administration, and there was not enough time to award it. already been approved and when you change administerings, all personwork like this goes back to where -- paperwork goes back to where it came from and starts over and took another two years and an august 23, 2018, john's widow, valerie, who is just the loveliest i'm and so bomb proof received the medal on john's behave it and was a great day for john and a great day for the air force. >> dan, t

that's what the top navy s.e.a.l. says about the elite group of warriors.he growing discipline crisis. >>> and emergency landing. a pilot of a small plane touches down on a busy road. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. i'm wendy gillette in for anne-marie green. we begin with news breaking overnight. there's been another tragedy for the kennedy family. sheer saoirse kennedy was found annispsa.he kennedy compound at hill was just 22 years old. marc liverman is in new york. good morning, marc. >> good morning, wendy. there's still a lot of questione loss of another kennedy. robert f. kennedy's granddaughter died thursday afternoon at the family's compound in hyannis port, massachusetts. emergency responders rushed to the estate of nantucket sound. her family released a statement saying our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved saoirse. she was the daughter of robert f. kennedy's fifth daughter courtney. she was due to graduate from boston college next year. the six-acre estate is best known for being t

for example, the army definition of accusative from the navy-marine corps definition. the navy-marine corps only counter collateral misconduct committed by the victim if an inquiry into the clatter misconduct was actually initiated. we were told that that meant a report of investigation was initiated. the army defined accused as a victim who may have potentially committed a ucmj violation. therefore, they have slightly different definition of the air force did not require a separate investigation into the misconduct. the army had a low number of sexual assault investigations for the time april 1, 2017 to march 31, 2019 involving 19 involving a nonaddictive. based upon experience of the case or use an court-martial database, we knew something was off. during the meeting we discovered the army only counted penetrative sexual assault investigation whereas the t oths counted penetrative and contact. after the beating the navy-marine corps and air force since corrected numbers which change thed percentages in the original draft report. as the staff reviewed the percentage i

young navy captain, navy, navy. up in the mountains in afghanistan.t shot, fell down a ravine about 60 feet. four star general asked me would i go up into the fog. everybody got concerned the vice president going up in the middle of this. but we can lose a vice president. we can't lose many more of these kids. not a joke. this guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire. and the general wanted moo e ton the silver star on him. i got up here, god's truth, my word as a biden. i said sir, i don't want the damn thing. do not pin it on me sir, please, sir. do not do that. he died. he died. >> now, the post reported several mistakes in details, time, place, service, but despite those apparent mistakes, an army staff sergeant who biden did award a brass star to tells the post that eight years later he remembered that moment with biden saying he has that look where his eyes can see into his eyes. i foelt lielt like he snood. joe biden responded. >> it was a young man, my recollection was that, in fact pulled a colleague of his out of

here, they are testing autonomous minesweepers and submersible that they can keep navy personnel awaye projects like this, where big defence contractors can work with british comic defence contractors in the royal navy to ta ke contractors in the royal navy to take crude submersible is like this and make them autonomous, taking people out of harm ‘s way. they hope that by creating regional hubs they can get the skills, expertise and bring industry together to make this happen. what we have given the plymouth region is a place that we can explore and test unmanned systems out at sea. it has allowed us systems out at sea. it has allowed us to bring local partnerships and local enterprises, academia, to make sure that the best capability is delivered for our armed forces. the uk government recently announced a £75 million investment in autonomous mine hunting technology. like the vessels being tested in plymouth. the industry wants this to be just the start. it is this plan to co—ordinate efforts that can help the country with rich maritime history built a blue economy for the future. le

certainly the navy has a massive role in that war. the domination of douglas macarthur as the lead figure in the pacific war sucking the oxygen out of the room for everyone else, colleagues or otherwise in the army and also on the flipside that might indicate someone of his status was in the pacific, perhaps there were some major army assets and that is true. the unbalanced press coverage of the time. if you are a war correspondent at the time you're probably going to your because a lot more infrastructure to support your communications. it is a bigger war, more press support, easier to get your story back where it needs to go than in some stranded remote pacific islands of history has followed that to some extent. the troubling brutality and racial 70 of the fighting itself which isn't always pleasant to look back and remember when we think of world war ii as a supposed goodwill. i think that is an oxymoron but that is our popular memory of the war. the humiliating nature of the early defeats in which japan cleaned the allies clocks