navy is crazy. i'm simply describing that part of the navy that fortunately or unfortunately the only part that i really came to know. this is a very dangerous place scary place and that's all i really experienced. in fact, i'm somewhat grateful to the navy pier and i think i was pretty naÏve. in some ways this book is what germans would call a coming-of-age book. huckleberry finn, et cetera. a coming-of-age book really. i'm very naÏve. the first story in the book is an example of that. there was this kid i liked very much because he was into literature and wanted to be a writer. we would sit and talk all day and when it was time, i should say, to talk and i thought there's something another with this guy. what is he doing in our ward? there's nothing wrong with him. he is saner than i am. he is saner than the rest of the staff. certainly saner than the psychiatrist. i am sure. so i actually approach the captain who is the head shrink and nystatin there's nothing the matter with you. i said no, sir.

navy federal credit union. >> late last month defen secretary hagel haganan approved a navy doctor -- he cped the combat shims at 32 ims. owe asked the navy to desn a more lethal and survivality design for the final 20 years. on the eve of the sir pass navy social securities trade show in washington is ron of t con congressional search service. ron, it is an honoro have you back. >> thank you for having me here. >> what e goingng to be the top themes we are going g to hear they sh nex week? >> o major theme youou will hear is distributed nefality. ththis is a term somhave introducuced ia journal ticl that came out this month. they did that with the intntent ofof introducinghis conceptt at the surface navavy vent. >>>> what t does t that mean? >> based on the journal article it appears to mean two things. first of all, making better use of your surface cbatants by adding additionall longer range wilhelen giving em additional pun at medi and longer rings so you complicate the enemy's task of having to worry about more adversa shims, and also coming up with noah opetional concepts for th

he is a retired navy commander with the navy reserves. ladies and gentlemen, welcome our panel, david winkler, john warner, bob dunn. [applause] ♪ >> in the fall of 1941, america began to challenge the growing german u-boat menace in the atlantic with an unofficial naval war. in asia, the u.s. exerted pressure on japan to end its four-year war with china and recent occupation of french indochina. receiving no acceptable japanese response, the u.s. on the number -- on november 26 issued an ultimatum to japanese leaders to cease hostilities and withdraw forces or face continued economic sanctions. japan's leaders decided to fight instead. admiral yamamoto, commander of the japanese fleet, had serious misgivings. because of america's industrial superiority, japan would have to win the war quickly. because of those misgivings, he insisted on opening the war with a crippling attack on the u.s. pacific fleet at pearl harbor, hawaii. a strike force of six carriers under command of the admiral moved east across the pacific toward hawaii. based on

and i know the navy is working on that.d both manned aircraft and unmanned aircraft are under review. this whole problem of stealth plus payload plus range is a difficult one. but again, i'm the guy that says we solve difficult problems and i think we can still companyñú audience in norfolk from the middle of june until 7 august, 54 days, the george h.w. bush was the only available strike platform we had that could do anything relevant in iraq and syria. 54 days. that's not a symbol.< 2. that's effectiveness. that's a fact. i think that the unmannedú6hñ aviation, especially unmanned strike, will give the aircraft carrierz/úg÷ decades more relevance than the five, 9wp it has now. i can't even imagine the power of an aircraft carrier built from the keel up to launch unmanned strike vehicles. it will be like that big spaceship in "independence day." just disgorging strike ,c vehicles that come back, land, getú on an assembly line, grease, fuel bomb, mission, shoot them back it the other end.uwm i can't even imagine the power t

the navy, the shipyard, the congress. they are aware of this problem and are working to get the cost down. what should it cost to have the capability i described in the opening statement? again, the value -- less than one half of 1% of all military spending to this platform. dr., you mentioned the expense in operating the battle group. i saw that and that is the carrier, the air wing. that expense is 1.4% and, if you rolled that up and added every single one of them, 12 of them are still under 15% of the daily budget. value and what it should cost. what does the most effective symbol and mission bring us? let's talk about cost and context. i will use your information for things that americans buy. we spent on hollow ween. we spent on costumes for our pets stop we spend on video games. cigarettes soft drinks, $4 billion on pet grooming. $10 billion on romance novels. $11 billion on bottled water. you can get that from your tap the risk is not long ago. the president of the united states sent 140 thousands americans to iraq

navy is located at the historic washington n navy yard. many artifacts are being consolididated at a giant storage and center in richmond. joining us now to tell us how the command is preserving history to inspire future generations is jim the command's depu director who is also a retyler naval officer, thank you to the program. >> thank you for the opportunity to talk about naval history and hair taling. >> it has fascinated me as military history has. a couple years ago the looked like the navy had turned its back on its own rich history. in the last couplele years, you are starting to get more resources. why is naval history suddenly so important and getting the foc that it deserves? >> i think one of the things that you rightly point out that there was perhaps a drifting apart and the importance of naval history and heritage is that it is relevant not just to tell the story of the navy and perhaps the naon in the past, but it's relevant to the current day operations and the future operations. there are lessons we learn from the past an

team 6 now they're training navy s.e.a.l.s to be part of a no-fail team. 50% of the navy s.e.a.l.s thate it. that's saying something. these are serious dudes. >> things heated up quickly with s.e.a.l. team 6 tasked with hunting down insurgents and high-value tar gets in iraq and afghanistan. >> probably 6 out of 7 nights a week that we would go out. that's where we learned how to fight. we got as good as we did because we learned from the enemy. the enemy knew our tactics before we started fighting them in iraq. and they used them against us. what would a night where you're working be like? >> the intelligence people worked around the clock and generally go in there, find out what they had been watching all day and based on what they were watching, get in the helicopters, fly away and then go into a house, find the bad guys. take them and their stuff. bring them back and find more targets based on what they tell you and next night the same thing. >> how much concern that the houses before booby trapped? >> a concern. they would rig it and wait for people to enter and blow it up. you hav

navy.y surrounds a military contractor who is now pleaded guilty to bribing scores of navy officers to the tune of millions of dollars, and the kind of prizes they got? hookers, top shelf alcohol and a lot more. this guy's name is leonard francis, and goes by the nickname fat leonard himself firm supplied fliers u.s. ships at aches ports for decade and prosecutors say he defrauded the navy tens of millions by overcharging. and bribes navy officials to cover its up. according too court documents prosecutors say fat leonard handed out gifts like fancy hotel stays, hundreds of thousands of dollars in prostitution services, spa treatments cuban cigars, fancy meals like kobe beef and spanish suckling pigs, computers and furniture, even ornamental swordses. five current and former navy officials have pleaded guilty to accepting bribes, and prosecutors say their investigation is just getting started. jennifer griffin at the pentagon. some surprising things to come out of this case, jen. >> well, s

navy during world war ii. mark harris thanks very much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> what can you tell us about the work of john ford? >> well, ford was one of the most respected directors in hollywood, probably the most respected director before the war. between 1939 and 1941 he went on kind of an unmatched tear in hollywood making "the grapes of wrath," "how green was my valley," "stagecoach," "drums along the mohawk," just a set of movie that is gave him the reputation as one of the most intelligent and serious minded directors. he was also the most prescient of the five directors i write about in realizing war was inevitable inevitable. three months before pearl harbor, ford was already in uniform. he felt war was coming, and he also understood hollywood really needed to be prepared. he had gotten the navy to agree almost a year before the war to let him create something that came to be known as the field photo unit. it was a sort of -- intended as an auxiliary in which he recruited camera

the navy to save money.fight pirates, president george washington won funding in 1794 for a permanent navy. then, in the 1840s, the u.s. naval academy was established in maryland. each year, more than 1,200 students, called "plebes," arrive to start life at the academy. what they experience during "plebe summer" is something they'll never forget. >> [ laughs ] plebe summer occurs the summer before you enter the naval academy. it's about two months of training that everyone has to go through. it's intensive. it's to break you into a military environment, especially for those who've never been involved in the military in any aspect before. >> so, you're gonna get a crash course in physical fitness. you're gonna get a crash course in military indoctrination. you're gonna get a crash course in just overall discipline, time management, and bearing. you're gonna do push-ups you're gonna do sit-ups, you're gonna learn who your friends are, you're gonna become one with the brigade of midshipmen. >> teamwork is defin

when world war ii started he basically knocked on the navy store instead here navy store instead here i am, make use of me. he was given a direct commission i think as a lieutenant commander with a film crew and he had visiting privileges almost anywhere. there is a little known but superb color documentary that his crew made right after the battle of midway in june of 1942 and he is well-known for that documentary but less well-known is the fact that his film crew was aboard navy and coast guard ships off normandy. some of the combat footage we see in the tv documentaries were shot by his cameraman. >> obviously you think about it but i was fascinated to see it. you know the person that i like the best is a british person, simon fraser lord leavitt. lucky him there was actually a war. he was a man born to fight. >> absolutely was. he was the senior commando in the british armed forces born and bred in the scottish highlands and if there hadn't been a war he would have found a way to start one. he's one of these as you say a natural-born lawyer whose life would have been wasted in any

the navy?s when smarty pants bret stephens cleaned his clock like a world class clock cleaner. >> who took out osama bin laden? >> do we need 11 aircraft carriers to do that? >> we need aircraft carriers to reassure our allies around the world. we need force to make sure that russians or iranians or chinese are deterred from aggressing in the persian gulf against israel, against japan. yeah, we do need those things and i think we live in a safer, better world where we can talk about ha ha isn't it funny, why don't we need a navy. >> i'm not saying we don't need a navy. >> so would you like that? is it a matter of fact because we had a base in afghanistan, the war you opposed, we were able to go and kill bim.n laden, that's how we got him. >> i bring this up not to trash maher but to expose his schizophrenia. recently he bravely identified our enemies. >> because it's the only religion that acts like the mafia that will [ bleep ] kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or wri

he served as a navy s.e.a.l., a member of the famed s.e.a.l.eam 6 and on the night of may 1st, 2011, he was a part of "operation neptune spear." as the second man through the door into the room where the world's most wanted terrorist was hiding, he fired the fateful shot that brought the biggest manhunt in world history to an end. his name is robert o'neill. and he is the man who killed osama bin laden. the face we are looking at is the last face that osama bin laden saw on earth. >> yeah. i mean, if it was light enough, i was definitely the last person he saw. >> you trained on targets with his face on them. >> yeah. >> what was it like to kill the actual guy? >> it wasn't real. it was another guy in a house we shot. it didn't sink in. it didn't sink in for a while. >> has it sunk in now? >> yeah, it has now. i've thought about it every day for a number of years. i'm still trying to figure out if it's the worst or best thing i've ever done. >> how is it the best? >> we accomplished the mission and i was a big part of it. i was a part of it. >>

he shares his experience with us. >> i joined the navy in 1993.vy seal i did two deployments over he seas. it was the best job i ever had. i had known i was gay since i was six years old. i was out of the closet before i joined the navy but under the don't ask/don't tell policy i had to keep that a secret while in the military. i wouldn't talk about my sexuality at work, which proved difficult at time. because the seal community is a close knit one, i feel that it's generally homophobic, i was terrified that my seal brothers would find out and when they did it would be really bad. there would be times when i had to do quite a bit of lying especially when it came to the girlfriend department. the military found out that i was gay when i left a message on my boyfriend--at the time--answering machine. he was in the navy, and he had somebody that worked for him that was listening into his messages. she heard it. she reported it. the navy then launched an investigation into my sexuality that lasted several months. during the investigation i certainly f

which was a major defeat of the french navy. and one of the most celebrated victories up until the battle of trafalgar. it certainly change the dynamics of the war. it is a good illustration of the thin line between success and failure. that it was degrasse who defeated the british for the first time since the 1690's. then he himself was defeated much as horatio gates -- was himself defeated by cornwallis. and you have won. we can take one last question. >> were the caribbean colonies the source of financial support to the colonies in rebellion in the north? >> not the british islands. although there were a lot of merchants sending things from british islands to dutch islands. a lot of the military people said that piracy reigns free here. but the french and dutch islands became the critical sources of supply to north america, especially this little dutch island of sint eustatius. there were 500 warehouses there. sometimes as many as 200 american ships off the island. bonmarche who is known as the playwright who wrote "marriage

and the british could shatter the french navy. -- shadow the french navy. this shows a clear realignment in their priorities. clinton complained. he is always presented as a neurotic, but he had much to being erotic about. clinton -- be neurotic about. clinton complained that these were the finest men in the army. in fact, he used a more emotive term. he said, these 5000 troops are the very nerves of the british army in america. the army being sent to the caribbean, they would waste away because mortality rates were so high. your expected to lose 1/3 of your troops within two or three years. he was promised -- his 5000 troops would come back. they never did. it was permanent loss. from this moment on, from 1778 the british are sending more troops to the caribbean and more shipping then to north america. they give of philadelphia. -- they give up philadelphia. this is the island of st. lucia, which becomes the base of the british army. the base of the navy was at english harbour antigo. it is an impressive place, like a miniature williamsburg. you can see al

sponsored by the navy credit union. we would be proud to serve you too. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption contenand acaccuracy. visit ncicicap.org] ♪ >> welcome to efense news." a look at how defense contractors are performing as the pentagon feels the budget pension. first, women in combat. there are00,000 women in uniform, 15% of f u.s. forces.s. last week the pentagon said the process of integrating women into combat j jobs will be completed next anywhere he first. two years ago, leon panetta and general martin dempsey order that no jobs should be off-limits to women, including infantry armor and special operations posts, as long as women meet the requisite standard, noting that female troops have performed well in action in afghastan iraq, and elsewhere. the process of fully integrating women got a major boost 20 years ago when women were allowed to fly combat missions, server board frontline warships, and support combat troops. currently military is reevaluating the physical standards for

the navy s.e.a.l. saved countless american lives on the battlefield still has their backs. >>> and born comedians. why there may be a lot more to how babies make us laugh. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. this has been a day of violent outrage across parts of the muslim world provoked by the work of the same french publication targeted in last week's paris massacre. the angry protests erupted after "charlie hebdo" again published a characature of the prophet muhammad. in algeria they burned the french flag chanting, i am not charlie, i am muhammad. two days of rioting have left as many as eight people dead after christian homes were looted. this weekend of rage comes as european security forces continue to hunt down terror suspects following last week's bloodshed in france. bill neely once again leads off our coverage from paris. bill, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. this crisis started with a massacre at a

navy divers have recovered the second black box from the bottom of the java sea.uthorities say the voice recorder should have captured the conversations in the cockpit before the crash. and the flight recorder should have information on the plane's speed and path. they'll analyze the data from both to try to figure out what went wrong. the plane set off from indonesia bound for singapore late last month. it disappeared from radar screens off the coast of borneo. 162 people were on board. >>> the defense officials from japan and china have resumed talks on creating a maritime communication mechanism. the discussions had been suspended for more than two years, now both sides are looking to find common ground to help avoid accidents from occurring. nhk world's juno somoto explains. >> reporter: the mechanism is meant to deploy accidental clashes at sea or in the air. the meeting came two months after japanese prime minister shinjo abe agreed to restart the talks. the talks broke off as a result of the deterioration of the relations after japan nationalized the island

army or navy dating from the revolution. twining was, i believe, named for an uncle who was an admiral and his brother was a marine core general so the military was in their dna. he had previous experience commanding the 13th air force and was tapped by general arnold in washington to transfer from the pacific to italy and takeover the 15th air force in january of '44. >> host: and he was shot down in the pacific and survived six days at sea. >> guest: he was on a b-17 bomber that got lost and ran out of fuel. he wasn't shot down. he survived that ordeal and emerged stronger than other. >> host: and wasn't he on the force that was haunting pancho villa? >> guest: yes he was. at that point he was still a national guardsman and was on persian's expedition for a few weeks. >> host: let's return to the war. the steep learning curve and stiff resistance in high attrition rate was shocking that they experienced early and throughout the war. talk a bit about that. >> guest: just a short course in pre-war and army air force doctrine

i was out of the closet before joining the navy.ed the policy i had -- under the policy i had to keep it a secret. i wouldn't talk about my sexuality at work which proved to be difficult at times, because the seal community is such a close-knit one. i believe the culture within the teams is generally homophobic. i was terrified that my seal brothers would find out. i thought when they did, it would be something really bad. and so there would be times when i would have to - i would have to do a bit of lying when it came to the girlfriend department. the military found out i was gay when i left a message on my boyfriend's answering machine. he was in the navy and he had somebody that worked for him listening in to his messages. she heard it she reported it. the navy launched an investigation into my sexuality that lasted several months. during the investigation i certainly felt that i was sort of bullied. it was a horrible time. once my brothers found out i was gay, they were amazing. they came by the house with pizza and beer and do

it means japan doesn't trust china's navy. also china's navy doesn't trust the msdf. they take aggressive action. so it is very dangerous. so something happened which cannot be understood then the other navy will take some action against the other's action. if they can communicate, they can understand each other. they can try to understand the other side intention. so it is the very important for avoiding a miscalculation. >> reporter: japan's defense minister gen nakatani welcomes the resumption of the talks. >> translator: it is gratifying that talks have resumed. i believe they will start a mechanism that could realize a system that will help avoid an accident when the dangers are getting higher. >> reporter: japan and china had already agreed to establish a hotline and hold regular consultations between defense officials before the talks were broken off. o'hara says he thinks discussions on monday were focused on when and how the communication mechanism should be set up. >> if they can have the specific frequency for communication between japan and china, so other

. >> i'm not saying we don't need a navy. >> so would you like that? is it a matter of fact because we had a base in afghanistan, the war you opposed, we were able to go and kill bim.n laden, that's how we got him. >> i bring this up not to trash maher but to expose his schizophrenia. recently he bravely identified our enemies. >> because it's the only religion that acts like the mafia that will [ bleep ] kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or write

we are here in the navy facility. is the navy part of the marines?[laughter] actually, one of your marine colleagues here today told me the marines represents the men's department of the navy. you know that person, right? my mother did a nice job on the video, don't you think? i wish he had lived to see that, she would've believed every word of it. my dad, who was in patton's third army in world war ii, i'm not sure about dad, but mom certainly would have. raymond, i want to thank you for not telling the score of that air force-carolina gator bowl of 1963. no one remembers it, i have been trying to forget it for 50 years. 50 years last december 28. i was a half back at the air force academy and the game was against one of my home team states from north carolina. i thought it would be the greatest way to end 11 years of organized football. as to dish and would have it after the game, they gave us a watch with a football and an alligator in the middle erie every time i looked at mine, it read 35-0. [laughter] don't blame me for not laughing. that was t

navy. the u.s. navy right now which is the centerpiece service for dealing with china's rise has 285 major ships as they define them, that's in contrast to twice that many in the 1980s, about 350 even in the 1990s, in other words, it's substantially less. meanwhile, china has substantially increased its fleet, i'm not saying we should be ready for an all out fight with china. but i am suggesting that our ability to sustain presence and commitment and keep the region stable and help persuade china to rise in a generally peaceful way does depend on our being able to sustain capability in the western pacific region. the navy has tried and president obama hasérúk tried to say we're going to pace a higher fraction of the navy in the western pacific region, the historic average of 50% is being increased to 60% by the end of this decade. that's the trajectory we're on. that makes sense. hillary clinton was part of that, i think it's a strong legacy of the first obama term, president obama's tried to sustai

navy allowed female officers aboard submarines like this one.ou are the only woman here. >> i am the only woman here. >> reporter: one of four women officers on a crew of 150 men and asked her whether that concerned her. >> we are all professional sailors together and i'm respected by the sailors as lieutenant in the united states navy and i respect them for the service they do everyday. >> reporter: she took american tonight on a tour of a submarine, 560 feet long and the space is at a premium and every room serves more than one purpose, this rec room doubles as an emergency surgical center. so this is what we call the supply shack is this is where logistics work and repair parts on the sub. >> reporter: when you are here how many folks are here working? >> up to four in the office and i like to keep it down to two or three for office reasons. day. >> reporter: long hours and tight spaces are reality of sub life and crews spend three months at sea with no windows and no privacy. here is an example of the living quarters, the hallways are about

, my brother in law and cousin was navy. loved the stories they told. >> reporter: but surrounded by men, she soon found herself fighting them off. >> at one point i had a chief that stalked me and he told me it was either i went to bed with him or i could have low, vals. >> reporter: after you were being stalked and sexually harassed you went to your superior and what happened? >> he looked at me and said boys will be boys and that is just the way things are. and i was still pretty niave so i accepted it. >> reporter: she says it got much worse. >> i was raped a couple of times. and i never told anyone. it's like women are fighting two wars. and they are fighting one war with the men that are supposed to be there side by side and they are fighting the war over there too. >> reporter: so when we talk about women serving on submarines you have very strong feelings about it. >> yes, i do. i feel that if they are going to be aboard submarines then it needs to be all female because a submarine is close. you are walking through a

and who -- navy cross. very serious battle that general westmoreland said, probably one of the most serious battles in vietnam. i was with him when he got killed. here was this little girl asking for his identity, or his purple heart. and then i called his mother -- called his wife, had her grandmother, and chatted with her. i can remember the day i awarded the medal to the wife, to all beautiful gorgeous women with two beautiful small boys and who i at the time said would you like to read the citation? i got to it and i had a flashback that i couldn't stop. i had to take and give it back to him. i could not finish that citation. because i had watched him die. so those are the kind of memories that you have. then the others -- i'll bore you with a couple of stories. am i boring you now? you want to hear more? the vietnam memorial which i think a lot of you have been to there's one name on there named john "bean" chinaee. you can ask me who is that? .in an operation that was very vicious, we finally overcame

our navy will have too few ships. our soldiers sailors air men and marines will not get training or equipment they need and it will become increasingly difficult for them to respond to a number of contingencies that can threaten our national interests around 24the world. we have heard all of this from our top commanders before yet there are still those who say never fear the sky didn't fall under sequestration. what a low standard for evaluating the wisdom of government policy. the impacts of sequestration will not always be immediate or obvious. the sky doesn't need to fall for military readiness to be eroded, for military capabilities to atrophy or for critical investments to be delayed, cut or cancelled. these will be the results of sequestration's quiet cumulative disruptions that are every bit as dangerous for our national security. i will say candidly that it is deeply frustrating that a hearing of this kind is still necessary. it is frustrating because of what dr. ash carter president obama's nominee for secret

navy come in and the air guys and finally we got moving good.diers out of green troops. listen, i got to be a veteran in one day -- that day. >> so they paved our beaches with our blood and reached the roads. in the depths of the rich green pasture of normandy, the three airborne divisions -- and loud across the crater face of france came german reenforcements. from berlin a voice cried out an ally must be burned another day burned a hole in the history. the armies clashed. our first objective, then, was to merge all into one and 50 miles of men drive on together beyond the red sands through the broken wall. ♪ >> it wasn't too bad getting ashore. we had to fight for every bloody thing. that was the scene each time. crawl on your belly. staying down like you've been toldng a few hundred grenades and rush them. sometimes they would kill us but we would kill more of them. they were regular fortresses. our own men while they would wait for artillery support. the navy was still with us too chucking in shells ahead of us. in the three days, we advance

a navy vet go ahead, jeff. >> caller: hey, chris. i just want to say i appreciate everything you have done. i served from 2000 to 2006 in iraq and -- not the whole time in iraq but i did two deployments trip. also did small boats, swift teams. imsure you know what they are. then i got out and i discovered the same thing you did that the caliber of people isn't quite the same you deal with. became an officer for a few years. i'd like to know -- a lot of people maybe don't understand what is going on in your mind and as an individual. if you can just kind of go into that for people and explain to them that you're not a cold-blooded killer as much as you're doing a job. thanks man. >> guest: and thank you for your service. as far as being a sniper, like i was saying before, i'm not out there trying to rack up kills and get these huge numbers. i don't care about the numbers. and i would love to be known by the number of people i was actually able to save. but i'm out there to ensure the safety of everyone on the streets. i want every one

navy s.e.a.l. sniper chris kyle accumulated more officially confirmed kills than any other sniper in u.s. military history. in his best-selling autobiography, "american sniper" now a major motion picture, mr. kyle described his early career as a professional rodeo rider. the challenges he had to overcome become a s.e.a.l. and experiences in iraq. chris kyle died on february 2 2013 at the age of 38. this program is from 2012. it's about an hour. >> host: chris kyle why did you decide to join the navy? >> guest: actually i grew up thinking the marines were the biggest baddest guys on the block in my eyes wanted to be one so i went to enlist and try to become a marine and a marine recruiter was out to lunch and then in the strip mall all of a sudden there you've got the army recruiter in the navy recruiter coming out to be snipers themselves and pick you up and get you to come to them. i talked to each one of them and the navy recruiter sold me on being a s.e.a.l.. >> host: at that moment you knew you

. >>> joining us now is the navy s.e.a.l. responsible for osama bin laden's death, retired navy s.e.a.l. rob o'neill. peter doocy is also with us. i have to say i think this is a great special to watch. to hear your story inspired me. as i was sitting here thinking about this opportunity we're going to have with you tonight, can hear this story over and over again. walk us through, let's start the training. you get the call. and walk us through that process again. >> we were told about a mission we were going to go do. it wasn't training. we normally had people prepared for a cycle but for some reason they pulled a group of us together. they told us vaguely about what was going to happen. we eventually figured it out and confirmed the way it was told to us the commanding officer of s.e.a.l. team 6 said we are as close as we've ever been to usama bin laden. >> how long into training was that? >> this was from training to the time they told us we were going to do something to the time they told us who we were going after. our i

i don't feel like the navy owes me anything. i don't feel i owe the navy anything.is i miss my guys. >> are you worried about your personal security? >> yes. >> what specifically? >> i don't know how people will react to this. i think all of the guys especially on the mission, but all of the guys on the mission , there could be a threat, yes. >> one year after operation neptune spear another navy seal published a book detailing his account of the raid. using the pen name mark owen. >> we have essentially two different versions of what happened. >> no easy day claims the point man's first shot up the stairs hit bin laden knocking him to the floor. >> the version told by mark owen , he places himself as second in the lineup the stairs. he finds bin laden on the floor and believes he is still alive and pumps bullets into his torso to finish him off. >> why is the story in no easy day different than the story that you are telling us? >> i think war is foggy, and i think that the author is telling this story as he saw it and also based on the de brief he heard. the. >> t

navy is investigating to make sure that the navy pilot complied with all of the faa and navy regulations. if it was a shoutout some thought it was cool, and some were upset. >> some people were scared by it, and it is inappropriate to be using the public resources to do something like that when the danger could be so great. >> reporter: the cal student wrote that his pilot brother is moveing from the central valley to texas at the end of the week and thought it would be cool to fly over the campus where he was, and as they say, be careful what you write on the internet. nanette, berkeley. >> thank you. and now, there was a dagger that was found in security at the airport. it was inside of a passenger's carry-on bag. a similar item is sold for $20. last year, tsa agents confiscated 2,200 weapons. >>> and now, new video has been released hoping to be identified. the woman with the short hair was found dying on a roadway hours after video cameras captured the three. the three were last seen at casa delmar restaurant. she was found the next morning hours along highway 29. authorities say she

and this speaks volumes about you and your fellow navy s.e.a.l.s. you didn't think you were coming home. >> we were 90% certain it was a one-way mission. we were probably going to die just based on what could happen before we got there getting shot down. if pakistan shot us down we were flying in their country without permission. they were justified. if we got to the house any house going to blow up, it will be this house. if any one target will have a suicide vest on it will be him. that will happen. and with everything else, if we run out of fuel, which is a concern, or if we spent too much time on target the pakistan police or military could show up. it would turn into a big political negotiation and we might end up in prison as tools as some sort of bartering. we didn't think we'd last long in a pakistani prison. we were pretty sure we weren't coming back. but because of what happened on 9/11 it was worth it. >> you get the go. before you go you write these letters to your family. >> yes. >> you have one last phone call with your dad. >> yes. >>

navy. easy for us in that regard. >> where does this stand right now. you found 30, 40 bodies. but there's 162 people who were on board that aircraft. >> right. it's hard to say. we the "sampson" has recovered 15 of the 30 some-odd bodies. difficult to know where they are. possible many of them are still strapped into their seats. >> the dimpb rfference between the sampson and the fort worth? >> the sampson is designed for anti-warfare. the fort worth is the smallest ship we have in the nation in terms of combatants. and it's a new class. completely different type of ship, different capabilities. >> these black boxes, they have these pingers and they have batteries, they'll go for another 20 21 22 days before all of a sudden they go silent. >> that's right. >> but you have to be nearby in order to hear that ping right? >> you have to be somewhat close by. sound in the water can actually travel pretty far based on the temperature gradients and the currents. sound can go pretty far. it's not

navy. so the ñ u.s.terpiece service for dealing with china's rise, has about 285 major ships as they define them. and that's in contrast to twice that many in the 1980s, and about 350 even in the 1990s. so in other words, it's substantially less. meanwhile, china has substantially increased its fleet. i'm not saying we should be ready for an all-out fight with china navally but i am suggesting that our ability to sustain presence and commitment and keep the region stable and help persuade china to rise in a generally reasonable and peaceful way, does depend on our being able to sustain capabilityfb the navy has tried and president obama i think with a very smart rebalanced policy has tried to say we are going to base a little higher fraction of the navy in the western pacific region so the historic average of 50% is now being increased to 60% by the end of this decade. that's the trajectory that we're on. and that makes good sense. that's just a way hillary clinton was part of that, i think it was a very

yet leftist michael moore who wouldn't last one day in basic training yet alone navy s.e.a.l. training says snipers are cowards and shoot people in the back and certainly not heroes. although he backed off a little bit, that's what he said. and that the movie "american sniper" has shattered january box office records is testament to the chord that is struck in the heart of america. not just americans in the heartland, but those in blue states and big cities as well. what was real about chris kyle was his focus on god, country, and family. his unquestioning patriotism and determination. four tours in iraq. yes, he wrote that he regretted not having killed more of the savages who were plotting day in and day out to kill americans. he was a straight shooter who took no prisoners. he resented the political rules of engagement established by, as he put it, some congressman sitting in a leather chair smoking a cigar in a d.c. air-conditioned office telling him when he could and couldn't shoot the enemy. there was no vacillation, no dithering, no hesitation, and no regret. he was the

in fact, the hdr mission is better served by the navy's inventory. and one of the things we're seeing is the entire inventory is under pressure because of the size of our shipbuilding budget and some of the assets we're purchasing within that budget. there are other assets like mobile landing platforms, asfps that can also provide support for asdr missions that are coming in at a much cheaper price and probably a moreau fishl use spaish -- official use of aspects. >> can i talk about economy sir? one of our common heroes is general/president eisenhower. i think though we have a slightly different view, and i'll speak for jerry for just a second because i'm allowed to right now. i think jerry really respects president eisenhower because of his view that he economized, that he looked at what we were spending in the military and he achieved economy's more bang for the buck and i think he would like to see us do that. we would all like to see that. what i saw from eisenhower was prioritization. the u.s. air force got 49% of its defense budget in 1958. 47

masked men in uniforms that say Ômarina' - navy, in spanish - stand watch outside oralia's son told herthat he saw his father in the window - but then the curtain was drawn. in the aftermath the navy would change their story about the events of that night numerous times - first saying they had no contact with the men. later, they would say they had questioned them - and found the men were innocent- and that they dropped them off in a different town nearly 2 hours away. jose and the other men detained that night were never seen or heard from again. the marines have never explained why they left them in a different town. >> what is the objective by the navy or by authorities to disappear people? what is the logic behind it? the allegations of disappearances by security forces have continued into pena nieto's administration. and not just in tamaulipas but around the country. we were told that there are people who have been released after being held by security forces - but that they rarely speak about the experience...out of fear. but we finally found someone willing to tell us their story

so does the navy and air force. but we are all brothers. it's not competition between the service when it comes to combat. it's working together and getting the job done. of course they will send marines into do things that nobody else will do and we will laugh about that. but the marine corps is designed to take on the tough stuff. and in the green beret, are goal was to advise and direct. a lot of people look at the green beret as combat soldiers. no. we were teachers and advisors. that's our primary mission. and we leave the fighting to the regular infantry and armor whoever. the marine corps. but, you know, the same thing that is going on over in iraq right now, we have a special force there, the green berets, and they are advising and training and directing and assisting. and that was our primary goal. >> thank you. colonel, you won the medal of honor for an action. you were in vietnam about 10 days, is that correct? and you served a second tour of duty. why did you go back the second time? >> i was in vietnam 10 days and was with the