the campaign develops. there's a chain of command at the highest level because, well, first the command of the south pacific force from u.s. naval force in the south pacific, vice admiral robert gorman was found wanting were a number of reasons. he had been brought in to lead the charge in the south pacific having been stationed in london. uses special naval observer as the blitz was going on reporting directly to the president was a. he was a natural choice. but as the campaign began unfolding, it really became clear he wasn't the kind of leader that exactly conspired to speculate to complain the law. them a little bit of a panic or. a premier strategist, marvelous diplomat and a planner. but when you find -- fighting started, he found himself just obsessed with detail. he never left his headquarters but he never went forward to seeing the marines at guadalcanal. never conferred with the command. never size forward naval base. he was very aloof from the fighting front. it quickly became clear that no minutes that admiral gormley was having a nervous breakdown in command of this crucial operation. they were

[applause] commander beall will read the citations for sergeant manning. -- commander biel. it will be lots of times for photo opportunities after. >> good evening, everybody. i have the pleasure of introducing our sergeant dani el manning. there was a probation search on the home of a resident who was known to be armed and dangerous and narcotics trafficker. in the course of performing duties, sgt manning encounter the suspect with a gun in his hand. in the days prior to the incident, sgt manning learned the resident of 60 kashmir, was dealing narcotics out of the residents. they conducted an investigation and learn a resident of 60 kashmir was robert hackert, a man with a history of violence in numerous felony convictions. on the morning of february 16, a team of officers who set up outside the apartment to conduct a probation search. once it was determined that sector was in sight, the officer's watch for several hours as this aspect -- suspects came and left sparking a suspicion that he was engaged in narcotics trafficking that day. there was a female suspect that the bro

the u.s. central commander from 85 to 88, the u.s. military command for the middle east. obviously that sort of spurred an interest even though i was a young lieutenant at the time in my interest for far different than large geopolitical issues. but after desert storm i went back to graduate school with an interest having served in desert storm with an interest in the police and if you that he got me quite interested in doing, studying the region so i started with a dissertation and that sort of kept up. i intended to write a book around the time and in fact i just signed a book contract two days before 9/11 happened, which is going to be a far different book than this. and then after my military experiences in iraq and afghanistan and as she started seeing iranian issues in a different light, started expanding the scope of the book and then spent a good 10 years researching and writing this. my wife likes to remind me we haven't had a vacation since 2004 so it's very much every waking moment of my free time and that's at the battle from the government service. i was in t

it goes through the process in the command staff boats. they use little marbles. there are black marbles and gold marbles. they bowed. they get two-thirds of the boat from the command staff. these members of the command staff, many are very decorated. they make this decision not likely. then they bring the officer's back and they get a standing ovation from command staff. that is one of the most impressive things you will ever see. i want to think the family members. -- thank the family of members. you made them who they are. men and women who are willing to risk their lives to protect the public. there is something special about them, and you deserve the credit for it. tonight i would not be surprised if many of you do not know the true story until tonight. there will be a chill running up your spine when you hear about what they do. you will be very proud of them. we're so proud of what they do. i want to send the family members for making them who they are in sharing them with us and sharing them with us. these are our heroes, and i really appreciate it. [applau

he has another memory, the sinking of the battleship, and the pride offp japan's navy. command ordered the ship to head for okinawa to stop the allied invasion. the war was now going bad low for japan. lacking air cover, the carrier was at the mercy of u.s. bombers. the ship sank with 3,000 soldiers and officers on board. he delivered a minute by minute account. >> the ship was bombed and torpedoed. i received radio messages, put them together and report. that was it. >> six months after baeing ase d assigned to the command center. >> translator: empty. just empty. i couldn't accept that the war had finally ended. >> reporter: after the war, he became a hard working company employee. this was the era of economic growth. the underground bunker was forgotten. the memories resurfaced. the former radio onnperator beg questioning. he poured over documents and record just to know why japan had to wage that war. he was beginning to think he shared responsibility. >> translator: i just can't help blaming myself for what happened. after all, it was the command that issued unilateral ord

the burden of command, and the mask of command and how important it is at that level to always keep thatask on to give the troops hope. but at the end of the day, he's human and it's tough to lose troops and be questioned at that point in time. so. okay. the experience. i can talk for hours about that. there's a lot of grads in the room. in hindsight. it's wonderful. i'd coit again in a heart beat. i kept a journal of the four years i was there, and i had a chance to look through those. i didn't think i didn't have that great of an experience. it pretty much sucked. [laughter] but, you know, and i would add especially as a woman. it it's hard for everyone. but now i remember it was fun memories and i'm proud to be part of the line and yeah. it was most formative thing that ever happened to me in the most important thing was to embrace the concept of duty on our country. i think we show how this new great generation of leaders are doing that as well. i can tell you, i can tell lots of stories about west point. i'll stop there. >> thank you for taking time today. i actually have a two and

we are the main unit that the commander mentioned. the first line would be the permit officers. if there is a permit, someone once transfer, that is where we talked about the code 47. we disseminate out to the stations. we get input from the station. essentially when they break up to the groups, you can ask them specifically what they look for. generally are concerned and cornerstone is public safety. environmentally when we look at the impact it will have, we look at the culture of service. i will talk about saturation. i agree with many of the questions that were brought up. it is over saturated. those districts and lots need to be updated. what we do is we handle licensing, education, and enforcement. we are liaison to the abc, as well as public health and the entertainment commission. last year we handled 637 licensing investigations, 385 involving premises conditions with no additional actions, 25 denials, and miscellaneous. we also conducted 28 minor decoy operations that involved 416 premises and 16 arrests. we did 20 impact subscriptions to see if they were handling the

the commander of the second dummy tank as to use his old terrain vehicle as a last resort. to help they drive into the water logged field where the travelers face another challenge their setting up a me tense. it doesn't go so well at first their fathers and grandfathers were far more adept at risk during the war but the overwhelming desire to sleep gives them a boost for sunrise the camp is finally set up and all the members of the russian reenactment group a fast asleep.

with the hundred first because he commanded them during the invasion of iraq and in 03 it was his first combat command. so during his last command it just so happened the 101st was in afghanistan deployed together for the first time since 2003. and again, david was one of the three combat leaders we write about and it's clear that he's here and dug was the senior civilian officer to the commander of the 101st in eastern afghanistan and also has a kind of special relationship to petraeus and the surge in iraq in 2007 when he was with the first calvary division. i think if you read the book i think that you'll enjoy that interplay between the dominant character and secondary characters who are coming you know very different and very interesting and very, very tough with a brutal war. writing about them from my vantage point from afar is interesting and inspiring to me to see the kind of lives and the way they carry to this day from the people they lost. >> two questions if i could not having read the book yet i'm wondering whether you cover the political attack on the general as exemplifi

the command and control, the tactical leadership is incredibly experienced. they have been fighting all their lives and know how to fight tactically. the challenges often getting them to use tactical communications systems that have been fielded with as far as their cell phones. that has been how they are very comfortable with command-and- control. with a complex battle scenario, they do not work reliably. command and control as a focus area both in terms of their brigade level tactical operation centers and tying it in their ability to develop their intelligence system and develop their fire in the fight is, they are demonstrating that the basic level of progress, there is much work left to be done. it is important to know that what we gathered earlier was on the fielding of their force and not their enabling capabilities. the fact those are lagging is a reflection of the strategy we applied and not something we were paying attention to. you have to feel the force before you can train them and combine the arms maneuver. what i'm telling you particularly abou

the german command plan to conquer it in the first hours of the war. with a garrison demonstrated outstanding bravery and resilience. having found themselves behind the advancing german troops the defenders fought bitterly for nearly a month most of the metal heroes death their story became a legend. carry our daddy up. beltran has seen the start of a training program for newcomers to the desert platoon living history group they are now meticulously reenacting scottish infantry units who fought in north africa in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine to forty three. using the renowned bren gun carrier armored vehicles. the club members but the biggest emphasis on the atmosphere in the camp and pay strict attention to the everyday life of a soldier from that time. yeah they. do want to be accurate and we do want to be serious but not over serious because we are paying respect to the people who were in the desert war we actually are a living history group rather than a reenactment group what we do is we try and show. the public how crudes tried to live a

and said, we probably need a unified command. the problem is, to get to a unified command is too big a step to jump, by pulling all these together to just make a unified command. the most logical is to set it up as a sub-unified and then grow into a unified. i think that is the process we're going to work our way through. it will take time, but it is important to know that as the nsa director, i report to the secretary of defense. actually execute authorities on behalf of the secretary. in cyber command, i report to strat com. half of me is reporting this way and half of me is reporting this way and not everybody knows what everybody is doing except for one of us and i am not saying here. i suspect it is the secretary. what we're looking at is how to streamline that process. they are working on that. i am sure will take more time. next question. >> an important and growing issue is the use of mobile devices and the fiber -- cyber threat associated with them. this brings of the realm of communication. there are now lots of networking

now, the commander in boston had no idea how many patriots would turn out. he knew that the militia was there and that they would turn out, but he was hoping that nothing would happen. she was hoping that no shots would be exchanged so he had given no orders to the commanders of the 700 troops as to what to do if he got into a fight with the patriots so is lieutenant colonel smith was the head of the 700 going out with no orders if the fighting broke out. it wasn't long before colonel smith realized that the countryside was alerted, so she sent back quickly for reinforcement so general gage said that digital hundred but it took forever to get the 1200 going so smith was more less on his own. guess how many patriots turnout? to begin with, there were 4,000, then 6,000, than 10,000, than 14,000 by the end of the day, 14,000. in 72 hours, 21,000 turned out. this was more soldiers than the entire british army in the world of the time. these were not young man grabbing muskets from their fireplace and just running to lexington and concord. these were young men who

the u.s. central commander from 85 to 88 to the u.s. military command from the middle east. at least that spurred an interest even though as a young lieutenant at the time and ranchers prefer different the march geopolitical issues. but after desert storm come work at a school with an interest in the middle east have got me quite interested in doing best in the region. it started with a dissertation and back to. i intended to read a book about the time -- just 90 book contract two days before 9/11 happened, which was a far different the thinness and then after my military experience is in iraq and afghanistan mse started you any started you any issue in a different light, i said bannings cope with the book and a good 10 years research and readiness. my wife reminded me we haven't had a vacation since 2004. so as to which every waking moment of my free time. it took us from the government service at a washington thing for an experience you from the government right to travel. research is quite interesting. for me, with government records in the modern era, they are not in ver

of the ship for about 15 months and i was a commander in the united states may be. c-span: explain how a man or women could be a commander on a ship that silvie the captain? >> guest: the way the navy works it doesn't matter whether you are in charge of patrol craft or a navy captain in charge of a cruiser or aircraft carrier. you earn during the time your command that honorary title of captain. c-span: how big is the ship? >> guest: the uss cole is 505 feet long 66 feet wide and 8400 tons. c-span: how many sailors and how many enlisted? >> guest: the normal is about 25 officers and 275 enlisted. we were a little bit shy of 100 that morning. c-span: how many were killed and how how many were injured? >> guest: they were 17 killed and 37 wounded and awarded purple hearts for their injuries. royko exactly what happened and at what time? >> guest: we had pulled in for refueling around 910 go 30 and in the middle of the harbor we were starboard side. i turn the ship around in case there to get underway in a hurry. at about 10 times the 30 we starte

the security battalion commander robert altman the two quantico brigade commanders the january commander w o four james our part and then in the march incident in stripping was. home to denise farms e-mails show that denise farms was more concerned about her career and everyone from the company level upward knew that this intended. general essentially had put out the order that nothing was going to change as long as he wanted bradley manning at maximum security prevention of injury watch also want to bring up prosecutors said today that they have evidence showing that manning knew he shouldn't present classified information to people that aren't authorized to receive it what do you think about this argument the prosecution makes well it's interesting i mean this what you're talking about is the desire by the government to create mit three uncharged. what they consider wrongdoing or criminal behavior that's not charge and the defense came back and said if the government wants to use a training counseling incident at essentially when bradley manning was training to be an analyst he posted

we are honored to have the lieutenant-general who commands the 18th airborne corps and was the commander of the regional command east in afghanistan. he grew up in maine. does that make you a red sox fan? >> absolutely, sir. >> -- >> do we have to go there now? >> [laughter] strong support from the second row there. he's had a distinguished career as a commander all his life. the great first cavalry division and multiple tours in iraq and was a commander in the third infantry division. recently he finished -- i saw him twice in afghanistan when i was doing assessments and i have to tell you that we have been in rce for a long time but when general allyn arrived there, it was different and better than anything we had seen before. the results were commensurate with that. it was a very interesting and productive time for him and his guys. to set the stage a little bit, i would like to go back to the president's decision to commit forces to the strategy of counterinsurgency in afghanistan. that decision being made in 2009. what that decision did impacted significantly what has happened in af

the brigade commander colonel mingus was not injured in the attack but command sergeant major griffinas killed. that makes him the most senior enlisted soldier from fort carson to die in the wars in iraq or afghanistan. the defense department is not saying this officially but based on our review of high profile casualties in both the wars in iraq and afghanistan, we think that command sergeant major xwrif griffin may be among the most senior u.s. service members killed in either war, period. major thomas kennedy and air force major walter gray were also killed in that same attack along with a state department official. of that attack as i said happened wednesday in evident eastern afghanistan. and then the next day on thursday, three marines were killed in southern afghanistan. and the latest so-called green on blue attack which is what the military calls attacks by people we thought were supposed to be allies. the three marines were reportedly shot and killed after they were invited to a meeting to discuss security. another u.s. service member was injured in that same incident. the g