first, i want to thank colonel petkosek for his service. there are three things i've been hearing here and seeing here that impressed me very much. the first is that citizens are asking questions. the second is colonel petkosek's first responses questions is that his loyalty is to the constitution of united states and that is what circumscribes his actions. the third thing is that in this world today, we cannot afford to ignore the fact that we may be forced to fight on our own soil. if that were to occur i, from what i am seeing, i am quite certain that colonel petkosek and his men will be able to handle that situation completely within the law and the laws of our country and with the intent that the constitution intended. i would want to thank you for your kind servicing your call. guest: i really do appreciate your call and your comment. it is always -- awe-inspiring to see what our soldiers are doing. any chance we get to share that with the american people is really a great opportunity. the country is large and soldiers are spread acro

our guest is colonel john petkosek. john from pennsylvania, you are up next. caller: hi. i am concerned like the last caller. i sell your facility on the internet. i saw someone in john deere caps saying please is a my guns. i've seen your videotape. what safety, or what do we have to guarantee us that these training facilities are not being used to confiscate our guns in case of another economic meltdown like we had in 2008? like the gun confiscation that went on during katrina. u.s. troops in afghanistan walk the streets of new orleans and confiscated every gun that was there. what do we have to guarantee that we will be protected from that non-happening in mass like it did in katrina. thousands of guns were confiscated by regular army and national guard units. guest: i cannot speak about what happened in katrina, but i can say i do know everything on the internet is not necessarily true as we see it. you come back to what the facility is designed for, we shared very openly. there are no secrets to be had. the united states constitution is what protects us and that is w

first, i want to thank colonel petkosek for his service. there are three things i've been hearing here and seeing here that impressed me very much. the first is that citizens are asking questions. the second is colonel petkosek's first responses questions is that his loyalty is to the constitution of united states and that is what circumscribes his actions. the third thing is that in this world today, we cannot afford to ignore the fact that we may be forced to fight on our own soil. if that were to occur i, from what i am seeing, i am quite certain that colonel petkosek and his men will be able to handle that situation completely within the law and the laws of our country and with the intent that the constitution intended. i would want to thank you for your kind servicing your call. guest: i really do appreciate your call and your comment. it is always -- awe-inspiring to see what our soldiers are doing. any chance we get to share that with the american people is really a great opportunity. the country is large and soldiers are spread acro

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here to join us about the center and its mission is colonel john petkosek.is the commander of the u.s. army asymmetric warfare group. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: can you tell us about these buildings behind us? guest: what i'd like to do is just put it into context in terms of why we have the training center here. the asymmetric warfare group provides operational advisory support for the army and joint force commanders. what that means is for things for the service here we provide operational advisers around the world where u.s. forces are deployed. we do that too identify capability gaps. we develop solutions for those gaps and then integrate them into the army system. that is what the facility is designed for. it is a place to develop solutions for the army. it serves a secondary role as an army training center. host: these buildings are life-sized in realistic, but they are fake and a sense and used for training? guest: exactly. the army has always looked at the need to have a diverse place to train. in the past we had

host: colonel john petkosek is commander of the asymmetric warfare group. thank you for your time. guest: we also want to thank fort ap hill for hosting us. the video work -- we want to thank them as well. that is it for "washington journal" today. another episode comes 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> covering several senate hearings on the c-span networks today starting with defense secretary ashton carter and the outgoing chief martin dempsey. they will become about the pentagon budget. our live coverage picking up in about half an hour 10:30 eastern on c-span. right now -- a hearing on technology and seniors living independently. that is that 2:00. also, on c-span 3, labor laws and the seafood industry. is that 2:30 p.m. eastern. the new congressional directory is a handy guide to the 114th congress with color photos of every sender and house number, plus i'll and contact information, and twitter handles. also, district maps, a full dot map of c

with colonel john petkosek. caller: good morning, sir. i would like to know how this urban training conflicts with the posse, taught us act. i will take my answer out there. guest: thank you very much for your call. it does not conflict with the posse cometatus act. the army does not engage in law enforcement activities. we do operate in environments where there are civil years and soldiers operating together. to answer your question directly, it does not. but it really does is provide us with an opportunity to become accustomed to operating in areas where civilians and from these are operating. it's a makes them able to better perform their mission. as a justin sapp talked about, there is a number of basic skills that we want our soldiers to be able to do. we want them to able to shoot and hit a target. they want them to be able to maneuver in environments. those are the essentials of any military operation. when you overlay that on top of the complex world we live in, we want our soldiers to be able to operate and decide it is not wheth

at 9:00, colonel john petkosek is here to talk about preparing u.s.o the "washington journal." the president named the next joints chief of staff. he will -- is expected to be confirmed by the senate and nomination hearings and the boat take place this summer. general martin dempsey, the current joint chiefs will testify on capitol hill about the defense budget alongside the secretary of defense. live coverage here on c-span at 10:30. elton john will testify