i get to name every ship that is made for the u.s. navy. the best thing i get to do is to lead this group of extraordinary men and women who make up our armed forces today. i was in the navy over four decades ago. i served a lot of good and dedicated people. we cannot touch the force we got today. we could not touch the skill, the training, the dedication. just to deal with those people on a day-to-day basis and deal with the sailors and marines and their families and to see the dedication and the skill level, to see what this generation of americans is giving to this country is the coolest thing i think anybody can do. >> how does this job compare with your time as governor as mississippi or ambassador to -- of mississippi or ambassador to saudia arabia? >> i have had an incredibly fortunate career. i have had some of the greatest jobs you can have in government. being governor of mississippi was an honor because my fellow citizen's elected me to that job i threw myself into it heart and soul. i worked on education and health care and jobs,

be secretary of the navy? >> i do not. i will say that i think the people on my ship were probably the most surprise people in the world'. >> how did it come about? >> i was approached during president obama's transition. i was in the private sector. i had just finished being ceo of a company. i had been working in the private sector since i have been in passenger and living in mississippi. i had a great life raising children. i was approached asked would i be interested in returning to government. >> you had been an obama supporter? >> i had. >> did you campaign with him? >> i endorsed him in april of 2007. >> why did you do that? >> i got to be a great president. we met here. we have mutual friends. had a couple of long taught us with him -- talks with him and what sort of campaign you plan on running. i thought to is this combinatiowith his combination s and ability to get things done that he would be one of our truly great presidents. i have not been disappointed. i did 300 events for president obama during

britain, the great british navy, the royal navy. george is an eminent historian, he holds a ph.d. in american history and government from harvard university and is a recipient of the 2008 samuel elliot morris award for his previous book, "if by sea." he spent time in the vietnam war as an instructor at the air force academy and director of the ma program in international affairs there. subsequently, he taught at the university of colorado, the university of new hampshire, wesleyan university and connecticut college. he resides in portland, maine. we're going to do a question and answer after george's presentation, and if none of you ask him what these tactics that the navy used have to do with today, i'm going to ask, so let's get on it. [laughter] please join me in welcoming george daughan. [applause] >> thank you very much, dan. it's a great pleasure to be back at the water street bookstore, one of the great bookstores, small bookstores in this country run by one of the great staffs that -- and i've seen a lot of them. so it's a gr

those who could run, farragut reported to secretary of the navy, were running in every direction, cut off and isolated down river with butlers troops finally approaching the forts, the garrison at fort jackson mutinied and both forts surrendered to porter and the navy ships that had remained there. farragut led the fleet to new orleans where they found the ships on the water front burning and thousands of bails of cotton floating down the river also on fire destroyed by confederates to prevent the capture. mobs threatened the yankees with bloody vengeance. george washington cable witnessed the fury of this mob. the crowds on the levee howled and screamed with rage, he recalled. the swurming decks answered never a word. one standing with lanyard in hand so plain to view that you could see him smile silently patted the breach and blandly grinned. with nav trained on its streets new orleans sullenly surrendered and butler's troops finally arrive to preserve some kind of order. if the passage of the forts by the union fleet under farragut was not quite the night the war was lost as a titl

, fox, the country looks to the navy. don't wait for the army. take new orleans and hold it until the army comes up. and that's exactly how it happened. the schooners commanded by foster brother, commander david dixon porter were towed into position on april 18 to begin bombarding the forts. over the next six days and nights they lobbed thousands of shells into damage but knocking out a few of the guns. ferigate decided to run his ships past the forts in the predawn darkness of april 24. this was not a popular decision among his captains who had in the words of one of them, little or no feeling of success. for his part, though, he wrote to his wife success is the only thing listened to in this war. and i know i must sink or swim by that rule. as to being prepared for defeat i certainly am not. any man who is prepared for defeat would be half defeated before he commenced. on april 22, ferigate called for a meeting of his captains to plan the attack. in military annals it was preverbial that counsels of war never fight but t

the arkansas had been able to get that far downriver because the navy department sent the welcome orders to take his fleet down to new orleans and then with part of it out into the gulf of mexico to avoid being stranded in the river as the water continued to drop. just so that we are on salt water i shall be satisfied and hope not to grumble at the fates that will take me out of the freshwater river. the failure to take vicksburg in july 1862 was part of a succession of union failures in the second half of that year which arrested the union momentum that had crested with the capture of new orleans and the river navy's capture of memphis. for the time being, the confederates owned the mississippi river between vicksburg and port hudson which they also fortified. furgit furigate was on the way to becoming a hero of the war and first full admiral in american history. thank you. i'll try to answer your questions. [ applause [ applause ] >> let me ask the audience a question. how many of you suspected that jim mcpherson was going to nominate david faragate. one vote. >> how much do you think

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and indeed, the public expected the navy to do the heavy work. just as the fleet under flag officer samuel francis dupont had done in south carolina five months earlier. iowa senator, james grimes, a member of the naval committee on affairs told the assistant of the navy fox that the for the a. take new orleans and hold it until the arm comes up. and that's exactly how it happened. the mortar scooners were towed into position on april 18th to begin bombarding the forts. over the next six days and nights they lobbed thousands of 216-pound shells into the forts doing a lot of damage but knocking out only a few of the guns. he grew impatient and decided to run his ships past the forts in the predawn darkness of april 24th. this was not a popular decision among his captains who had in the words of one of them little or no feeling of success. for his part though, he wrote to his wife success is the only thing listened to in this war, and i know i must sink or swim by that rule. as to being prepared for defeat, i certainly am not. any man who is prepar

. >> not what you expect to hear members of the u.s. navy punching, choking and beating down one of their own. >> sounds bad and it was. just ahead here on the news at 6:00, the navy enforced zero tolerance about hazing.  -dad, why are you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur? [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] inside every box of heart healthy cheerios are those great tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. stickers? uh-uh. a superhero? ♪ kinda. [ male announcer ] and we think that's the best prize of all. ♪ >>> eight sailors have been discharged from the navy. >> it stems from a hazing incident that was reported to senior officials. peter dues see has the official. >> reporter: after being battered following initiation, adjoining sailor went to the on board doctor. the doctor told the captain someone was beat up. eight were discharged from the navy. there was wrestling, choking

then the navy has committed in advance to essentially purchasing the supply which will make it easier for the refineries to gain investors and commercial financing to build the biorefineries. and then the usda will work with the producers to basically buy down the cost of the feed stock so that the price pricing will be competitive with other fuels so that the navy would not not be paying more than it otherwise would pay. as these refineries expand beyond the navy's needs, commercial aviation is also very interested in this. we had a meeting in chicago this week, earlier this week with representatives, united and honeywell. they are very interested. they, too, are interesting . one, the security aspect. of not being reliant on a foreign source of energy. so it's in their best long-term interest to see this industry take hold. these biorefineries can be located everywhere. so as cities are looking at economic opportunity, as they're looking for their region that they are sort of the center of, they ought to give some consideration to working with their economic development areas to see

the navy to the money on top. about 200 of the multiple lines to do that. >> with regarding the open now okinawa to guam.nell is it related to the uncertainty regarding the realignment? >> you bring up a lot of different things. the actual total is 51, 26 for a project and $25 million for planning and design. we know we need to plan and ahead.ate going and we need to do an expanded eif out there, and that is going to take time. we put up more money than that, we will very likely lose it on the hill. better to put in a project on the north ramp at andersen air force base and put the plane design money into start working the plan. we still have a backlog of things to build out their independent of the size of the troops. thank you all very much. i appreciate your time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> so far, we have heard from the army and navy, giving readings about their part of the defense department's proposed budget for 2013. th

alex demetrick reports, the navy is moving the comfort out of baltimore permanently. >> reporter: the navy hospital ship comfort has made baltimore its home port for the past quarter century. but this will be the last year here. >> i'm sad. i'm unhappy. i was crying last night. >> reporter: former congresswoman helen bentley played a big part in getting the comfort to baltimore. >> we love it, treat today nice. everybody likes it, loves it. and we hope we can still keep it. >> reporter: but bentley knows it's not likely to happen. the navy says moving it to norfolk will save $2 million a year, even though it just spent $5 million three years ago to upgrade the baltimore dock. >> i guess they're abandoning that investment. >> reporter: during its time in baltimore, the comfort was deployed to the persian gulf for the -- or the first gulf war. staffed by mondays -- hundreds of navy medical personnel. in more recent years, those troops were sent to disaster zones. starting next year, those medical crews will be sent to norfolk to board ship. and about 40 civilian jobs will move with them

we're tied 56-56 and in the second o.t. period, navy never lead and herbeck about the lead. the navy is defeated by average, 59-63 and swept by their rival since the first time in 19no. >> and to that 49th-ranked georgetown and all uconn and that lay-in and the foul. >>> and coming up, on the saturday, it's moving day and tiger is going up and down. next.  never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles in 3 days is-- is huge. if my mom can fight and beat breast cancer, i can walk 60 miles. you just put one foot in front of the other, and you know that you're walking for such a great cause that you just keep going. (man) that you have all these people coming together for one common goal. (woman) the goal is to bring an end to breast cancer. (woman) the fund-raising was the easiest part. people were very giving. complete strangers wanting to help. if i can do this, you definitely can do this. (woman) i'll never stop walking, not till we find a cure. (woman) and it has to end, but it starts with us. i knew someday i was gonn

doesn't, or people in the navy to talk to did not hold on to guantÁnamo. people from the conclusion. so, this is from general mccaffrey, the four-star marine corps general. and another four-star, and then another person who is the head, the commander of public works while i was there. here they say, this is on 356 if you're following, 50 years after castro trusted our guantÁnamo strategic irrelevance is universally acknowledged. guantÁnamo served no military purpose, of course no strategic advantage. we are not going to attack cuba, the place that is the policy of inadequate inertia. others strategic naval silicon and it was important, as was the esta. there are people who disagree with them. he is a marine guy. today jeffrey johnson, guantÁnamo as absolute nothing to the navy. if guantÁnamo disappeared from every ship would sell, every sailor would be trained. more with the navy would say $50 million per year. so as i said, the navy feels like you're taking one for the team. the coast guard uses it. the date department uses it. you know, there's talks tha

from high-altitude parachute jumps, to rescues, meet the real-life active duty navy s.e.a.l.s on their strangest mission yet. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline." february 17th, 2012. >>> good evening. i'm terry moran. and earlier today, a daughter said good-bye to her famous mother. bobbi kristina, the daughter of whitney houston. and cissy houston, the car's mother, paid their respects at a private wake in newark, new jersey. a crowd is gathering to say farewell to a talent the world will not soon forget. that talent carried whitney houston away from home young. but talent alone cannot count for the trail-blazing figure she became. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: it's fitting that the last song whitney houston performed on stage just last thursday, would be "jesus loves me." after all, whitney houston was a product of the gospel tradition. her service tomorrow is being called a homegoing. and in this case, the term is as literal as it is figurative. it's a nod to the retur

. >>> our loss, the navy's gain.ht, new information on why the navy is moving the hospital ship comfort from baltimore to norfolk, virginia. alex demetrick reports, like real estate, it's all about location at the best price. >> reporter: the navy may own the comfort, but it takes a lot of civilians to keep it in top shape. local contractors who have been doing it for a while. >> since 1989, when a ship first came up to baltimore, it's good for the economy. there's a lot of local companies that provide services and goods. >> that business could take a hit when the navy takes the comfort to virginia. but it will save the navy $2 million a year. >> after 25 years here in baltimore, it will be a sad day that the ship moves. but i can see there are some advantages to being in the norfolk area. >> reporter: the captain operates this. the navy provides the hundreds of doctors, nurses and medical staff, during missions, whether it's wash or disaster relief like the earthquake in haiti. being in norfolk saves time. >> as fas

. >>> our loss, the navy's gain. tonight, new information on why the navy is moving the hospital ship comfort to baltimore. like real estate, it's all about location at the best price. >> reporter: the navy may own the comfort, but it takes a lot of civilians to keep it in top shape. local contractors have been doing it for a while. >> since 1989, when a ship first came to baltimore, it's good for the economy. there's a lot of local companies that provide services and goods to this ship. >> reporter: that business could take a hit when the navy moves the comfort from baltimore to norfolk, virginia, in 2013. but it will save the navy $2 million a year. >> well, after 25 years up here in baltimore, it will be a sad day that the ship moves. but i can see there are some advantages to being in the norfolk area. >> reporter: captain randall. the navy provides the hundreds of doctors, nurses and medical staff during missions, whether it's war or disaster relief like the earthquake in haiti. being in norfolk saves times. >>

that was almost a $1 billion additional fuel bills for the navy. and the only place that we have to go get that money is operations or training. so our ships -- our planes fly less. >> more with the 75th navy secretary ray mabus, tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a". >> on saturday, russia and china vetoed a resolution backing an arab league plan calling for a syrian president asasad to step down. we got an update on today's "washington journal". envoy to tr in the program. we're joined from cairo. thank you for being with us. what are you seeing from your vantage point? >> obviously, among the syrian opposition and members of the arab league who pushed for this opposition, this is a setback. they are saying that this means there is no political resolution to this crisis. that will mean that the syrian opposition could tehran increasingly toward armed struggle and any strength they could show in terms of convincing me international community to get behind them. host: the "in new york times" has a picture of the embassy in cairo and there was th

the navy says moving it will save $2 million. though it just spent $5 million to upgrade the baltimore dock. >> i guess they're abandoning that investment. >> reporter: during its time in baltimore, the comfort was deployed to the persian gulf for the first gulf war, staffed by hundreds of navy medical personnel. its primary mission was caring for u.s. troops. in more recent years, those troops were sent to disaster zones like hurricane katrina and the earthquake in haiti. starting next year, those medical crews will be sent to norfolk to board ship. and about 40 civilian jobs am move with them. >> reporter: jobs that we hate to lose. but next week, we'll be having an announcement about a new container line that is coming to baltimore. and that will create 400 jobs. >> reporter: a reality that will likely dash bentley's plea today. >> i hope the governor can do something. >> reporter: but it's the effective's call, and the comfort is going. alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> the navy plans to move the comfort next year in ma

my feeling is the navy doesn't want the f35. they would prefer to have the f/a-18.let them buy that. if you can straighten out the problems with the f35 for the air force and marines, okay. but if you can't, then you should not go ahead and buy something that, you know, basically costs you more -- >> the key issue here is you can cut even more than 20% if the threat cooperates. if the threat doesn't cooperate, and you get challenges, you hadn't anticipated, you could be in trouble just cutting 20%. >> we're going to be right back in a minute to talk about programs in particular. stay tuned for more about the pentagon's >>> welcome back for more with our roundtable. we're violating the rule because we start with somebody different but we're going back to you because of your expertise on programs. what were the most controversial program decisions? what will be the aggregate effect on the defense industry? >> a lot of the cuts don't actually end up being cuts over the long term. there's submarines and there's warships, that were removed -- >> tilt rotor. >> right. but

they start family and luff leaves the navy after six years to be closer to them. , the lack of structure leaves luff searching. he turns back to the church for guidance. >> so where does this story take its turn? i mean, so far. >> well, the real thing that happened was in april of '84 there had been a world conference for the church. at this particular world conference, they introduced a new direction for the church and it split the church wide open. now, for me, i was getting out of the military and i was starting a huge life, but the church, which was a huge part of my life, was in utter turmoil. >> looking for answers, luff takes a fateful trip with his family to an ohio town, known as a kind of mecca for mormons. kirtland, ohio, this small farming town hosts hundreds of mormon tourists annually. they come to visit the kirtland temple, one of the first religious structures for mormons. >> it's primarily a historical landmark. we have visitors from all over the country. it was built for joseph smith in the 1800s. >> in the spring of 1987, 27-year-old ron luff vi

the u.s. stand behind israel and stand up to ahmadinejad. an action movie with no stuntmen. real life navyeals using real live ammo. directors of "act of valor" join the governor tonight. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applause]. >> hello, everybody. thank you. thank you very much. great audience. we are delighted to have you. welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. over the next ten days i'm going to be in israel taking a group of about 175 people to see firsthand this remarkable nation and an american ally. we will travel and visit the great biblical and his score tal sites of that shaped world history and have been the bedrock of faith for thousands of years. i have often said that reading the bible before a trip to israel is reading it in black and white. but after visiting this incredible land it's like reading it in living color. now we will, of course, visit not only the places made famous from the old and new testments but i'm going to make sure those that go with me get a firsthand understanding of why the happenings in the tiny little count

the national guard reserve modernization account reduced by 44%. navy reserve over the next 5 years goes down by 9,000 sailor based on current capability even though we'll have lcs, more fire scouts which we'll need to get them back for, shortsighted. air force is reducing it looks like two active and five reserve squadrons. it should be the other way around just from our point of view kind of common sense if you're there to save money you look at these reserve and national guard squadrons, they pulled a lot of weight in iraq and afghanistan and chairman klein had a statement on that matter. it don't make sense. when you can support a lot more reserve for the cost of one active. drones and technologies, we're going -- we're going to ask for half as many reapers even though we say the strategy is so that we can rely more on technology we're reducing reapers in half and reducing the number of global hawks and canceled the next uav because the fire scout can do the job. that's fine if your argument wasn't we're going to rely more on this technology but you

in the navy talk to to not want to hold on to guantanamo. is it an active navy base in the project was a very good question i want to "several people. so this is from general barry mccaffrey. general jack sheehan, and then another person who is the head, the commander of public works while i was there. here they say, this is on 356. after is rise to power guantanamo strategic and relevance as universally a knowledgeable. guantanamo, really close, low military purpose of ford says g. jeter advantage of those u.s. marine corps general jack sheehan. your not going to attack cuba. guantanamo is once important as a political icon. of the judges a naval facility, they're people who disagree. today, jeff it to doug jesse johnson, nothing to the navy. fontana disappeared every ship would fail. the navy would say $60 million per year. feel like they're taking one for the team. there is stalker using it. a lot of evidence. but a very straightforward man. as a fourth tragedy of what happened. this great secret place anymore. >> but it is not a ship repa

. >> if we can make this happen for him so that he can leave this facility and report direct to the navyes him a future. it gives him the hope that he needs to truly make a difference in the rest of his life. >> secure my formation. >> while dempsey searches for a solution for madden military officers rick johnson, dwayne cooley and john mercer, have their hands full interviewing other offenders who want a shot at being in the future soldier program. >> cite the pledge. >> i pledge of allegiance -- >> 150 of pendleton's 300 inmates applied. currently, there's only room for three more. >> it's a tight unit. we have to be very careful who we let into the unit. today is the selection interview process. we're going to do our best to screen out any people that might be detrimental to good order and discipline in the unit because we have to protect that. >> why are you requesting to join e-15? >> i would like to get away from negative peers. a lot of negative peers on the unit i'm on now. so i know if i come here i have an opportunity to go home. >> we get up at 4:50 in the morning, will that

valor has all the makings of a hollywood blockbuster complete with some high flying promotion by the navy seals dropping in on the red carpet premiere we ended up being able to shoot the action and the way you watch a football game on t.v. . but military battles are no game to veterans who have seen the ugly face of war they are plagued with psychological trauma for the rest of their lives and the reality was they didn't go to do anything for rowing but their role as an occupier the real feeling guilt for what they had actually been a part of is what's caused i mean the epidemic of suicides today in the military no b.s. here. sometimes turns up but. fortunately for a bit of cash and ready access to real military hardware hollywood is more than willing to provide a happy ending for both the movie's hero and the pentagon. in los angeles for among the lindo r t. all right so i think this bears some looking at the academy awards after all are this weekend so let's talk about this sometimes too close for comfort relationship between hollywood and the pentagon you know on one hand it's importan

rowe did enlist in the army and the navy and even briefly in the marines. i wasn't a -- wasn't a navy s.e.a.l. i was a cook. wasn't glamorous. wasn't neat. wasn't exciting. >> but he was familiar enough with the ways of the military. that when he was in san diego on the run from the law he found the perfect hiding place. >> i go down to the army/navy store. i buy a naval officer's uniform. i would take the bus to the base. >> talked your way on to the base? >> i don't need i.d. nobody is going to question me with five rose of ribbons and a s.e.a.l. crest on his shield. >> posing as a s.e.a.l. >> talking to real life s.e.a.l.s. >> he didn't swap war stories but convinced civilian investors for a phony business supposedly cleaning ships' hulls and ran the scam from the base officers' quarters. >> $10,000 minimum investment required. and most people that invest money, all 26 of them, invest in cash. >> so you wound up with over $100,000? >> closer to 250, yeah. >> in six months? >> in three weeks. >> you're good. >> i told you that before. >> it sounds unbelie

and the navy while it had been defeated at the battle of the capes during the yorktown campaign, the navy was still supreme. the navy was still mistress of the ocean. the british had hardly been beaten. no one understood this better with than the commander in chief himself, general washington. he was fearful that the news and victory of yorktown would, in fact, diminish the american effort. shortly after the battle he wrote to governor william nelson, the governor of virginia. he told governor nelson, quote, instead of exciting our exertions, the victory at yorktown will produce such a relaxation, during the prosecution of the war as we prolong the calamities of it. he then wrote a few days later to general nathaniel green, the american commander in the south. he told general green, my greatest fear is that congress may think our work closed and will fall into a state of langur and relaxation. following that washington made a brief visit home to mt. vernon, only, by the way, the second time in eight years that he had been home. after a brief visit he and martha left mt. vernon and jou

. >> up next, a look inside the france amphibious >>> the u.s. navyand marine corps are conducting their largest amphibious exercise in a decade and among the ships participating is the french amphibious assault command ship mistral, one of a new generation of novel war ships that pack a heavy punch into an affordable package. france employed commercial construction tech national leagues to cut production costs and employed auto medication to shrink the ships crew and reduce operating costs. the result is a 653 foot, 22,000-ton hybrid war ship that can carry 650 troops almost as comfortably as a cruise ship plus all their gear, including up to 90 vehicles, including tanks and between 16 and 35 helicopters. mistral entered service in 2006 and france now has three of the ships with plans to buy at least two more. russia also bought two mistral class ships with an option for two more. i spent some time aboard mistral recently and interviewed her commanding officer. >> the ship is 200 meters long, 32 meters wide, 22,000 tons which is quite a big ship and

in san diego, the u.s. navy dismissing sailors for hazing. violence apparently caught on tape and peter doocy on the story from washington. >> reporter: am being battered following initiation, a young sailor went to the doctor and the doctor told the captain someone got beat up and eight have been dismissed from the navy. there was punch and horsing around, and says the man blacked out after being smoked and ended up bruised and also says when an incident like this happens, it's got to be taken care of. it goes contrary to our core values and the charges are pretty cut and drive to the navy, a zero tolerance policy against hazing. there's no quality video of one of the new discharged sailors that sos two men this blue calm flag wrestling in a locker room and the man who filed the report is seen in a headlock, but released as soon as he was passed out and walks off on his own. the navy wasn't aware of the video, the sailor kept it to himself. days after democratic congresswoman judy chu called for military hazing hearings and saying that the h

well today is the nationwide opening of the new military flick act of valor which uses real life navy seals to give americans a realistic view of what those secretive forces do i watch the trailer and it looks exciting and heroic but it is of course hollywood so does the movie portray reality or just what the government wants you to see it's a question worth asking and when the mainstream media often ignores to what extent does the pentagon doctor hollywood scripts in order to shift public opinion are to correspond to ramon go in no shows us this cozy relationship and how it's been winning hearts and minds for years. some of the world's most elite warriors outfitted with the most technologically advanced equipment and plenty of firepower stored secure. the american hero comes out on top in act of valor but there is something missing from a hollywood suppose it realistic portrayal of the u.s. military that stuff looks fine but soldiers today who are joining the military the number one thing they're going to be doing is driving around in a truck or walking around in a foot patrol in a b

sailors have been discharged for what the navy is calling hazing. ose involved say it was horseplay. here's the story. >> just a few second of cell phone video, two sailors wrestling in a narrow aisle. charlie gains the upper hand, leading to a tapout on a locker. both men walked away. >> plain wrestling. it was byes being boys. >> the other sailor reported the incident and navy officials called it hazing. davis was fired, including the seven others watching. he said he was approached by the group earlier, jabbed a few times. >> a couple of the guys wrestle me down and then shook my hand and welcomed me aboard. >> then the fateful wrestling match. >> the kid took it too seriously and couldn't handle wrestling, and he intent told -- went and told a fib. >> he thinks the navy investigation should have been more in depth. as for zero tolerance. >> i buy into it for drugs and alcohol. that's zero tolerance, but play wrestling with no malicious intent and for eight people lives to be destroyed, you got to be kidding me? >> now, recently the military has b

the tensions in the gulf between the u.s. navy and the iranian navy. a lot of things on the table and that mix for a witch's brew that could cause a lot of trouble for a lot of people. jenna: i'm going to get to the issue of the navy in a moment. when we take a lock at iran and israel, again, these are allegations that both are responsible for attacks, covert attacks on each other. where do we fit in all of this? peter, where is america, if you're looking at them firing at each other, where are we in the crossfire? >> well the united states is certainly and ally of israel. we have significant interests in what happens in the middle east. iran is an enemy of the united states, it's been so for many, many years going back perhaps to 1979. they are developing a nuclear weapon program that is not only pointed at israel but at the united states. u.s. intelligence has said publicly that iran will have an intercontinental ballistic missile by the year 2015, that is a few short years and it will probably be targeted on the united states since they already have

the discharges are pretty cut and dry because the navy has a zero tolerance policy against hazing. there's low quality video taken of the incident taken by one of the now discharged sailors showing two men vigorously wrestling each other in a locker room. the man who filed the report is seen in a headlock but is released when he taps out and walks off on his own. the navy was not aware of this video before they finished their investigation because the sailor kept it. this news comes days after democratic congresswoman judy chu called for military hazing hearings stating on thursday that the highest military officials must make eliminating hazing a top priority. they must stop pretending there is no problem. none of this will change until the secretary of defense commits to' rad wait the culture of hazing that -- eradicate the culture of hazing that is so ingrained within our troops. since the sailors received general discharges and not dishonorable discharges, they won't lose their gi benefits and no has appealed even though they have the right. peter doocy, fox news. >>> the sad an

my best guess is probably higher on the navy side. i found numerous instances of confederates serving in the confederate navy. they also obviously served in the union navy. but that's a guess, dr. hardy, i'm not sure. any other questions? >> john, i did have one question behind you. would it be ok if i use this microphone? when you were speaking of the dage rate during the m terrible thought it was more than 20%, but it was also comparable to the european immigrants, does anybody have any figures on what the death rate among african-americans was during reconstruction? because i've heard that it was as high as 25% when they were turned out with no way to provide for themselves. >> the 20% death rate on the middle passage was early on. again, it dropped down to about the 4% level and that's what the comparison was with the european immigration. my book ended in 1865, so i did not really study the reconstruction period. that's the next book. [applause] invite me back for that one. i can't really give you an intent answer on that. -- inte