he is also the principal adviser to the secretary of the army and the chief of staff of the army into the secretary of the air force and the chief of staff of the air force on matters relating to the national guard, army national guard of the united states in the air national guard of the united states. beginning in 2009 when the position of the chief of the national guard or was increased to four-star rank, the chief of the national guard bureau is given a standing invitation to attend meetings of the joint chiefs. i look forward to general mckinley's testimony to further elaborate on the wrong function at the chief of the national guard bureau and how that relates to the role and function of the joint chiefs of staff. in congress' direction, the commission on the national guard reserves address the issues we look at today. they did so in a second report to congress dated march 1, 2007. the commission recommended against making the chief of the national guard bureau a member of the joint chiefs. this is what the commission said quote, the commission does not recommend that the chief

the free syria army is starting to go in the offensive. a sniper prepares to fire on a soldier guarding an army post. he is aiming to wound, not kill, he says. the rebels still hope that most of the army is prepared to change sides. this woman lost her son, grandson, and brother and law, all shot dead. they had to demonstrate, she said. we had 40 years of injustice while they live in luxury. so much bitterness is being stored up against the ruling minority. a 6-year-old boy died as we left, shot by a sniper, they said. the longer this goes on, the more chance that the struggle for democracy in the syria will and in sectarian bloodletting. >> the man chosen by the ruling military council to be the new prime minister of egypt, kamal ganzouri, has addressed the nation. he spoke to the huge crowds in tahrir square who continue to call for an end to military rule. >> the wire is to help the troops to hold. this has been sealed off by the army. outside of the square, soldiers kept their distance. inside, it was a day for candy, not clashes. this

the total army. the reserve component connects army to then american people. the guard and reserve soldiers that live and work in over 3000 divinities have share the burdens of war with over 900 killed in action in more than 7500 wounded. they are a critical component of the joint force and connect us to main street america. we have built a strong relationship between all of our army components and i would argue probably the strongest we have ever had. it is our role to sustain and increase this moment some as we move forward. but with all due respect to the chief of the national guard bureau my good friend greg mckinley with whom i have the utmost respect for and i work closely with on numerous critical issues, i am bound to communicate my explicit opposition to this post is a as a member of the joint chiefs of staff. first, representing only two of the six reserve components, the army national guard in the air national guard at the joint chiefs of staff bubble will create confusion, and balance and potentially challenge interoperability. it would run counter

what the army represent i think that the people they want genuine change in egypt and the army will not allow that to happen and that's why we have a real confrontation now the army start being hit me like the good guys and the street and the start shooting. political analyst. on our program tonight live from beirut thank you. well we have been asking you how the west should react to the bloodshed in egypt let's see how the numbers add up here here on our feet r.t. dot com that is the majority think stony silence is the best answer nearly a third believe nato allies must impose a no fly zone and get involved in a bombing campaign around a fifth say the west should react with tough sanctions on threats of action while the rest of the think the events should be condoned but how do your own say on our web site do it now and r.t. dot com. right now twenty twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital it's a case where the poison spread much further than it was than its intended victim five years since the death of a russian former security agent alexander litvinenko in the u.k. i

the 36-year-old has been in the army for 14 years. one is an experienced soldier come up with expectations. the other is new. >> i am eager to do something for my country, so i said either i will join the police force or the army. but i was more interested in the army. i had also heard a lot of stories from my relatives about what it is like here. in the and, i decided to join the army. >> since ending conscription this year, german armed forces are eager to attract people like this. in the old days, they could choose the best soldiers from among a large group of conscripts. now, the army has to convince people to join up in the first place. it is not easy, although the requirements are hardly stringent. >> common sense, a good education, and an interest in a career as a professional soldier. if they have these criteria, it is a green light. >> are you getting that at the moment? >> maybe not 100%, but 80%. >> during the break, don't just think about having a cigarette or a drink. think about your camouflage. that is your life insuranc

the free syria army is starting to go on the offensive. a sniper prepares to fire on a soldier guarding an army post. he is aiming to wound, not to kill, he says. [shot] rebels still held that most of the army is prepared to change sides. she lost her son, grandson, and a brother in law, all shot dead. they had to demonstrate, she says. we had 40 years of injustice while they lived. so much bitterness is being stored up against the ruling minority. the 6-year-old boy and died as we left, shot by a sniper, they said. they were quietly angry. and the longer this goes on, the more chance that the struggle for democracy will and with sectarian bloodletting. >> to egypt or the man chosen by the country's ruling minister council to be the prime minister has addressed the nation. he spoke as huge crowds gathered to continue their calls for an end to military rule. >> the wire is to help the truce to hold. the road where protesters and riot police fought is being sealed off by the army. a soldiers kept their distance. inside was a day for candy flo

these are the men of the free syria army. they do not exactly hold this area, but hope to slow up the security forces. almost from the beginning, at it was syrian government propaganda that armed groups or armed gangs or supporting the opposition. now after months of protesters been shot in the streets, that myth of an armed insurgency has become a reality. [gunfire] more joined every day. a gun battle signals another defection. soldiers are running, fired on by their former comrades. five made it out, a sixth did not. one of the soldiers explains they fled after being ordered to shoot unarmed protesters. we're all one people, one blood, we cannot just kill them, he says. the nightly demonstration -- they are calling for a no-fly zone. with international protection, they say, millions will take to the streets to sweep away the regime. but help is not on the way. the conflict is escalating. the free syria army is starting to go on the offensive. a sniper prepares to fire on the soldier guarding an army post. he is aiming to wou

the u.s. army is increasingly relying on soldierings to shape what it buys and we'll get an update on the latest network integration evaluation. but, first, the joint strike fighter program is under more scrutiny than ever, facing budget pressure and tough questions from nearly all of the program's nine partner nations, conceived nearly two decades ago as a stealthy super sonic jet, available in three versions and packed with unprecedented sensors, jsf was going to feature groundbreaking technology at an affordable price, thanks to vast production quantities spread across many nations. but development has slipped, four years behind schedule, costs have soared and top pentagon officials dialed back on the initial production quantities and have threatened to eliminate the marine corps straight takeoff and vertical landing version unless performance improves over the coming year. despite the criticism, jsf appears to be delivering. the planeperformed admirably in recent flight tests, including three w

their anger at egypt's military rulers with protesters staying put in the heart of cairo saying the army's concessions are not enough. these. protesters in tahrir square with designed to get some kind of just a few moments. reports of more deaths in syria as the u.n. human rights group condemns the government a move russia fears will hurt the prospects for future talks. and a murder mystery spy saga with a pinch of global politics five years on the unsolved killing of a former russian at a security agent that of alexander litvinenko continues to muddy relations between moscow and london. and if i could have you with us today this is r.t. live from moscow with me rory some show thousands of egyptians are simply refusing to leave to rio square saying they're not satisfied with concessions being offered by the military council the army has said that a presidential election will be held by next summer but people want them to go ahead right now violent clashes with police continue in cairo from where. now joins us live paula thanks for coming on the program today we hear the police are going in

to protest the slavey heavy handedness of the army reminds me not to talk days of hosni mubarak more for me to interrupt a few moments. and the euro is in mortal danger brussels warns tough economic governance is the only way out of the crisis but moneybag germany says every country should look after themselves. and in business foreign direct investment in the us a is on the rise but analysts say russell still remains one of the nice abstracts of countries along developing part gunning for a full business growth and one that. could have you would decide this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital with the twenty four hours a day russia may pull out of the start treaty and stop nuclear disarmament if the u.s. continues to deploy its missile defense shield in europe present if it is said moscow could also deploy its own strike systems like to scan the missiles on its own borders as a response let's get all the details now from aussies and he said the only. some very harsh and direct words from president medvedev on the development of plans for the u.s. nato and their eastern

the army national guard has a history of being equipped as part of the united states army. it is conceptually in an entirely different matter. that the joint chiefs of staff have been failing to represent the interests of the army guard and the army, or the air guard into the air force. general, would you say there has been any indication of that? >> not only is there no indication, it just isn't accurate. they are represented by the service chiefs. >> would you agree that the guard is as well represented as the air force reserve and the army reserve? >> i do, senator. >> and adding the reserve chiefs as members of the joint chiefs of staff? >> i would recommend against it for the same reason i recommend against adding the guard. >> i have that observation from having spent three years and being the secretary's principal advisor on guard and reserve matters. there are a number of other jurisdictions in which a non title that obligation is considered. some are quite frankly jealously guarded by the political process of the governors. arertainly don't say they in any way disre

to stop firing of the sisters on the one hand if the army takes the heat of this kind of war and he needs the sway the protests to settle something remain and they will remain with their demands for the army to step down on the other hand the army just simply making some kind of reforms i mean it has promised that they will be fundamentally make sense makes my big protest i'm not satisfied with this they say that how can they proceed against the backdrop of hers and even if people turn out to vote one fifty two states across the ballots doesn't question the legitimacy of those elections the army is also promising next time to make stir it will be haitian elections but this only helps in every complex you make for system and process so at this point there's nothing that bionic woman do or say that is actually going to meet the requirements of the footrest as a standing here when we make it seems that the situation at the moment is a manageable and very difficult time for the army to not decisive house and deal with the demands of the protesters pulled as their life and carries thanks

square saying they're just not satisfied with concessions being offered by the military council the army has said a presidential election will be held by next summer but people want the military leaders to go right now clashes with police continuing kyra that's exactly where our very own policy or is now she joins us live. paula we continue to hear the police are going extremely tough on protesters what so what's the latest where you are. all the classes are continuing here into this threat for the moment they limited to the periphery they're happening on the streets at least in and counted tough here the official word from the army is that it has no intention to occupy test here that it's merely trying to protect the interior ministry building a short distance away from here you have this almost bizarre situation that if you are in the squid this is almost a really different reality unfolding people who are saying that they plan to continue with the sit ins for as long as it takes in some parts of the street is almost a crown of the atmosphere where people are selling food people are se

the message of the army -- the message that the army should give up politics is a powerful one. it was not among the chance across cairo at the historic mosques. this was the alternative protest supported by the muslim brotherhood, egypt's biggest political movement. hear, the chants were all about palestine, egypt, and jerusalem. they had nothing to say about tahrir square. the brotherhood would prefer the protesters to go home. they do not want anything to disrupt the progress towards elections on monday. some brotherhood supporters went on from the mosque to tahrir square, but the leaders calculate that they are far enough ahead to cooperate with the generals. >> this is the popular thing to have done. obviously, we are willing to sacrifice some of our support in order to make sure they did this is the most important thing that we are having right now. >> a third rally was going on in cairo in support of the armed forces and against the protesters. >> elections, not tahrir square. >> we support the army on the police. we do not want tahrir square. >> is an egyptian democracy e

the free syrian army is made up of pro-democracy protesters and soldiers who defected from the syrian army. they're calling on the international community to impose a no-fly zone and to create a safe area near turkey. our correspondent, paul wood, and his cameraman, fred scott, smuggled themselves into syria from lebanon. they spent the last week undercover in hom, the first journalists to have spent time with the army inside the country. earlier i spoke to paul about his experience, which began across the border in lebanon. >> there is a pretty efficient route now for smuggling weapons in and casualties out. it's not easy. the syrian army has tried to seal the border, planting land mines, sending out a lot of patrol, so i think pretty much every day you're seeing covert traffic across the border. he went in with a group of activists who were the end of the logistics supply chain for the free syria army. they were taking in a couple of each, and one sign of how this conflict is deepening and spreading is the fact that a black market now costs them $1,200. such is the demand in syria.

they calling on one hundred times how do you believe the. army that has been looting the country since favorites. stepdown five just returned from aman mark what street is just a short distance away from here and that is where all the trash is continue between the security personnel and the protesters behind me you'll hear the ambulances they feed ferry nonstop the injured and the dying because we're hearing that the number of those who have been killed continues to mount speaking to medics they say that they've lost count of how many people they are treating now while i was on the streets it was a makeshift clinic to the one side and a makeshift clinic spot toughest where behind me there are people literally dragging others over their shoulders to these clinics most of the people are suffering from smoke inhalation as i'm speaking to you there's a strong smell of tear gas in the air the police have been firing tear gas they've been firing rubber bullets and these are the these guys here have been but this deafening sound of gunfire now a short t

they believe the army is dragging its feet. a lot of banners in the square have the year 2012 written on it. they want elections for the president to be held immediately after the parliamentary elections in january they want a transition to real civilian rule next year, not as this document seems to indicate the end of 2012. even 2013. they are asking was there a revolution in egypt or a coup or a bit of both. but those that come here say the revolution must succeed or they will stay here. >> what about the muslim brotherhood which is the big opposition party? i believe they told supporters not to turn out and they are now, as you said holding talks with the military. what is their strategy? >> yes, indeed. i think the muslim brotherhood who has the political advantage because they are one of the political forces that could mobilize albeit in a different way. they can use the mosques and social organizations. through the years when political parties were not allowed to mobilize and now they are using the resources and experience

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in the military, in the army last year it was 22 per 100,000, an increase of three. that is three, that is 22 too many. and in no way do we not want to attack this problem. but the issue for me is, is trying to understand it. and it is so much more complicated than i thought it was when i set out to solve it. i moon, one statistic that i can tell you right off the back is in the cases that i look at, 72% of those cases is an individual's got a relationship problem. 72% of the cases in the united states army last year had a relationship problem. and you say, aha, that's the reason. anybody who has a relationship problem goes into a higher risk category. well, that's not necessarily the case because what you see with posttraumatic stress is relationship problems are the result of all the other things that happen from alcohol abuse to drug abuse to problems getting along with your partner. you name it, and finally it ends in a relationship issue. that relationship issue could be the culmination, the straw that broke the camel's back, i don't know. but that's what makes t

and the army are one." we are becoming increasingly skeptical. what we are seeing is rather a monstrous. >> thank you very much for joining us with your analysis of this situation as the talks continue between senior political plans military figures and as the running battles continue in tahrir square. you can see the crowds are still moving. most of them focusing on the point of confrontation down this road, police and protesters. and the army manning the barricades, trying to keep this area safe. protesters have called on people to gather in large numbers here. they are calling this the million person protest today. about 1 million people here now, but the crowds grow larger every hour. if it's in alexandria and suez and other major centers across egypt as well. even in some of the towns, people are gathering in protest. we will continue to watch. for now, back to you in london. >> that was a live report from cairo. all the dramatic developments in cairo and elsewhere in egypt. you can keep up-to-date on t

up next the chief of the u.s. army programs tells us about some of >>> impending budget cuts will force hard choices at the pentagon. lieutenant general robert lenox is among those making those hard choices. we caught up with him at the annual ausa conference here in washington. the army has been asked to cut its share of nearly $5 billion of spending cuts in the next decade. lenox wants to s<égprotect programs. i asked him if the service has a plan b if cuts end up going deeper. >> first of all, the present has given his guidance to cut and the army will do its fair share. so if you just do the math of about $480 billion over 10 years and then divide it down to our share, you're thinking in terms of $11 or $12 billion a year. that's an awful lot of money. the challenge for us is going to be how do you take down end strength while you're fighting a war that will enable you to protect your modernization accounts. so we're struggling with that right now. >> what about moving money out of the supplemental? i mean, obvious

forces in the area including those of the marine corps and of course the army. the chief intelligence officer for the davison had returned to a visit to qassam, the remote outpost near listened by the marines and briefed westmoreland on the situation there. the description of the unprotected installations and the general lack of preparation to withstand heavy concentration of artillery and he said agitated general westmoreland he turned to his deputy and said something to the effect that he lost confidence in the marine general's ability to handle the increasingly threatening situation his response was to set up and send a brahms up to take the man. the action was predictable one division commander called this the most fun part of the thing that saigon did and said the marines viewed with shock and astonishment and all the conference on which he denied the loss of confidence and the leadership had been his reason for placing the new headquarters over them. westmoreland also tabled the marine general to say there has been extensive background here in saigon with t

egypt's military rulers who could just as staying put in the heart of cairo in tahrir square saying the army's concessions are not enough. and renounces three people between the front line and make that clinic dozens have been injured in the last few hours i worked in just a few moments. of the year i was in mortal danger of brussels once tough economic governance is the only way out of the crisis of money bag germany says every country should look after itself our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow with you twenty four hours a day russia may pull out of the start treaty and start nuclear disarmament if the u.s. continues to deploy its missile defense shield in europe present it if said moscow could also position its own strike systems and it's going to missiles on its own borders in response. explains. some very harsh and direct words from president means may differ on the development of sounds for the u.s. nato and their eastern european allies to build and develop that missile defense shield in eastern europe just outside russia's border he pointed out fi

but by the '70s, bio-weapons were banned and the army focuse. now, the fbi was beginning to believe someone had resurrected the dark arts of bio-weapons. >> is it a scientist that's gone rabid, basically, and decided they needed a cause for whatever reason to send out these mailings? >> there was a behavioral profile put together that suggested that it wasn't a foreign al qaedaist actor, it was more of a domestic type threat, you know, a dysfunctional adult in the united states who did this. >> narrator: they gave the investigation an official fbi name-- "amerithrax." the agents reasoned that the killer was a homegrown scientist, maybe even one of the scientists helping them on the case. >> that's quite a dichotomy, to have the experts who were helping you also be the suspects. but i think that's just the nature of this kind of event. it's the nature of this kind of crime that the people you have to rely on are the ones who are themselves capable. >> narrator: almost everyone was a suspect. >> we were heroes in the morning and suspects in the aft

his dad had been the chief of the army. no, his grandpa had been the chief of the army. his dad had been the youngest brigadier in the army, and then he suffered a stroke, and that ended his career. this lieutenant-colonel, his whole life, that was all he ever want to do was serve in the military. .e was being rif'd the drawdown under bush and clinton earlier in the 1990's, he did not want to leave, but he did not have a choice. when we got to west point, we were greeted by a lieutenant colonel there, and he was also being rif'd. to the first guy, it meant a lot. that does break faith as far as i am concerned. you start somebody out on a career, you send them to west point or annapolis or air force academy, and you make certain promises, and then you break those promises. that is basically what has happened. i think about these young men that are going outside the wire over in afghanistan every day on patrol, and if they are having to think about what is happening about my future, instead of contra rate -- concentrating on ied's's or snipers are just not being able to be

ground invasions of lebanon and gaza its young people are increasingly turning their backs on the army. next max and stacey ask whether the pope should be heaping praise on a man who's lost hundreds of millions of dollars of people's money. guys are this is the kaiser report i'm here in ireland kilkenny ireland there's a new song and it goes like the.

simply wants to protect the interior building but we have been hearing before some doctors that the army has been firing live ammunition top to saying that they've been treating patients but if woods today here's what gunshot wounds to the head and the neck and would severely bruises all over the body that he supposed to be in using that and to be to the crowd there was a rumor circulating that the police are using a new kind of see it as no way to verify that it might be true it might not be true certainly there was a lot of anxiety and a lot of fear going on at the moment the army for its side would be launching soonish to try to come into this which again that is what many people have been telling me because there are so many here if the army has acknowledged any signs of attack later they would be some are saying the possible that part paula we understand that the capital has offered to resign and i'll just days before the election some i think that would appear as are the protesters to some degree what's the next step well for the military council. well we hearing that mohamed el ba

a soldier ten years ago the refusenik movement started in israel youngsters refusing to serve in the army on political grounds add to that the nearly fifteen percent of potential draftees who don't serve because of religious reasons and a recent series of scandals also so public trust in the military decline the state it's about to start so chose not to this video posted on you tube says a true israeli doesn't evade the truth in other words a true israeli avoids conscription fifteen or twenty years ago and advertised this would have been unthinkable in those days not serving in the army was something shameful but now youngsters have role models like activia nodded a copy former girlfriend is ready model barbara faily who evade. service and gave it legitimacy relations of human rights. are by israel's absolute disrespect of international law it's crystal clear there's no question about it i mean as far as moral decisions go. it's not a big dilemma the only think overcome is actually the social pressure. but that social pressure is listening up which is why volunteers maxa have a loan are t

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be more like 16,500 over the next few years. armies still faces a real problem as it shrinks. what will they do with the hundreds of troops injured in northern afghanistan and iraq? that is a real issue for the army. this document says that they will not be exempt. the second crunch will be announced next year. understandably, the army is distancing themselves from this report saying it was written by a junior officer. nevertheless, and they're looking at what it means at the moment. what they are saying is that they have made no final decisions on the number of troops. as for the injured troops, they will not be forced to leave until they have recovered and until it is the right decision for them and the army. that said, this comes on the day when the nation remembers the sacrifice of those that serve and are still serving on the front lines. >> you can get more on all of our stories by going to the bbc news website for background and analysis, plenty of video and audio content as well. the headlines. the major league baseball player

morris writes, "the army had swords in their hands. you know enough of the history of mankind to know much more than i have said and possibly much more than they themselves yet think of. i am glad to see things in their present train. depend on it. good will rise from the situation to we are hayesening, and this you may rely on, that my efforts will not be wanting, although i think it probable that much of convulsion will ensue, yet it must terminate in giving to government that power without which government is but a name." so, what he's saying, in es essence, is that the army will threaten congress to get its house in order and if the army hasn't yet thought of doing it, morris will be quite happy to put them up to it. now, he gets some replies to letters of this kind from officers which throw great credit on some of our revolutionary officers. henry knox writes him and says, "if the present constitution is so defective, why do not you great men call the people together and tell them so?" and nathaniel green writes morris, "when soldi

located in maryland, usamriid is the center of the army's bio- defense effort. they took the powder there to the lab of one of the army's top anthrax vaccine experts, dr. bruce ivins. >> his reputation was that of an extraordinary microbiologist. he did the truly preliminary snapshot assessments of this material because he was so good at what he did. >> he was just fascinated with the way it was just like a mist. it was so light, you couldn't weigh it. it was very dangerous stuff. >> narrator: ivins and the scientists at the army's bio-lab said this was something new. unlike the wet anthrax they worked with, the powder was dry and very deadly. >> he was the first one to describe it as "energetic." the material literally would float and waft within the bag, for instance. and so, when anyone brought a hand near the bag, a lot of these spores would migrate towards the hand. >> narrator: they knew this highly floatable anthrax was something special. ivins wrote a report for the fbi. "these are not garage spores. the nature of the spore preparation suggests very highl

uniform of the u.s. army. so these people in my opinion have taken sides, they have joined the enemy, and to have this body at this time as the threat of home-grown terrorism rises say no, they can't be treated as enemy combatants is -- not only does it not make sense and is totally unresponsive to the facts that i have just described, the fact is that it's also dangerous, so i couldn't agree with the senator more. i want to thank senator ayotte as we come to the end of this colloquy for the initiative here and frankly establishing yourself as one of our important leaders on national security matters. i'm a little biased about this, but i know your experience as a former state attorney general has helped as well as what i have noted is your active and informed participation on the armed services committee. so i must say that as i am about to enter my last year of privilege to be a united states senator, it gives me great comfort to know you are going to be here, senator ayotte, to carry on these fights for am