once the u.s. navy squadron arrived, they had boxing tournaments and a football game, a football tournament in the fall of 1918 and played a considerable amount of baseball. of course there was a lot of the inner fleet if you will, u.s. versus uk boxing matches and et cetera. life at scalpel flow not really great in terms of liberty call. occasionally when the ships would go down to the navy yard for repairs or maintenance, then you had a little bit of traditional night life. let me return to the mediterranean. i want to concentrate on the naval aspects of the campaign in 1915. there is essentially we will focus on the campaign in this area right here. this was actually winston churchill's baby. winston churchill's idea. the idea was to break the stalemate on the western front, open the straits, which as you come out of the black sea through istanbul, and finally into the mediterranean, to open up the waterway to allow the russian of the black sea fleet as well as dust coming out of the very, very robus

partner with the navy. we are one naval force. are 200 84week, we active ships across the united states and worldwide. we have three current aircraft carriers deployed. we have three amphibious assault ships underweight and over 3700 aircraft operational with the marines having over 1300. i have a caveat -- this information is unclassified. you are all fine to hear this information. i am not giving you anything you could not find online. i went online in tension late to get this information. today, is oursay own personal opinion. we are not here to represent the navy or any political point of view. providing a point of view from our experience. in terms of what you might see in your own districts, when a ship deploys, a deploy with certain fleets. they are organized in an operational structure. when you see the military members in your districts, they are based in certain bases. region northwest, southwest, hawaii, guam and the northern mariana islands. i want to give you the representation of these differen

i found a memo and the archive in which somebody at the u.s. navy recruiting codebreakers new service women's colleges. the men are unavailable, let's see what women can do. >> host: from yearbook 1942, the chair of the senate committee on naval affairs argued that admitting women into the navy would rake up homes and amount to a step upward in civilization. >> guest: yes come enormous controversy about admitting women. the codebreakers we've been talking to were women accepted for volunteer emergency service. this is the first effort to include women in the u.s. military. someone world war i, but a larger number of women and a lot of resistance from the older admirals in the navy. they didn't want their uniforms to be navy blue. they wanted to be gray or tan. the women who are pushing for inclusion of women in the military understood such things as uniform color were very important said they were fully part of the u.s. naval reserve. they were reservists called into action. and though, it was a momentous time. some of the women i interviewed didn't

the perception of how thrarge navy is. slide of all a the military presence. navy personnel. this is statistics as of last week. over 300,000 strong active duty members. the reserve is 97,000. 57,000 are the active reservists, weekend warriors that get called up very quickly. in 2017, there were 184,000 strong. and i will say this now. the marines -- the marines are an incredible partner of the navy. we truly are one big naval force. as of last week, we were 284 ships active across the united states and worldwide. we have three current aircraft carriers that were deployed. e have three amphibious ships. 700 aircraft that are operational with the marines having over 1,300. this is unclassified. you all are fine to hear this information. i'm not giving you anything you could not find online and purposely went online to find this information to make sure i didn't give you anything that was privileged information. anything that we say today, we're not here to represent the navy or any political points of view. we're here to give you another view of they think so based on our exper

one of the women working for the navy she wanted to be an architect wanted to use the g.i. bill but they all turned her down and said we are holding the spots for returning men she said i was also a member of the navy and they said to bad but she couldn't tell them about her work or what contribution she had made. >>host: code girls chapter ten is entitled pencil pushing mamas thinking of japan his confirmation speefive. >> thanks for coming out. a fellow here at new america with the washington post i am really excited and pleased to be here with my friend to talk about his new book the china mission.

the navy took this as a clear indication the president was returning so they painted the building allte. it is no longer navy grey, it is all white for the little white house. i would like to welcome you to the harry s truman little white house. it is florida's official presidential museum and has been used by seven american presidents. it is camp david south. the little white was built as the navy commander's home in 1890. it served a number of various commanders over almost a 100 year span, but it was slightly interrupted by presidents taft, franklin roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, to bill clinton. -- jimmy carter and bill clinton. the department of defense says we seem to have a continuum through american history. this building was the largest building on the naval base. this was 9000 square feet. consequently it was built originally as the paymaster and commander's home, but by 1911 , the new base commander realized things were getting snug so he merged into a single it into a single dwelling of all most 9000 square feet. at that time, key west was the co

the navy was part of the program, as well. always force initially tested out here going back to world war ii. and then everything through the cold war. you know, every kind of missile, tighten rocket programs, nasa has a big rocket sounding program at here. anything that has to do with rockets and this whole technology kind of began here at white sands. during world war ii, there was a german program. we looked at that program and kind of understood the technological changes that were occurring. what really sparked the development of american missiles and rockets during world war ii, the navy realized quickly that they had a hard time defending against, causing pilots because they came in quick and low, and guns had a hard time engaging those targets. also, in 1944, the germans went into the production of the first jet powered aircraft. aircraft would be flying higher and faster, and engaging those aircraft with the technology at the time would not work, so we realized something that could keep that pace, that rocket engine, w

a new the navy. truman didn't know the navy. to educate the president in the ways of the navy. one way -- this is the naval station as it looked at about 1950. he saw what the navy had going on and of course the navy took advantage of him being here and show him a lot of things that they were doing. he was rumored to have made a corpsent that the marine was just a bunch of soldiers and went around talking like sailors . the did not sit well with the marines. it is one of the things they would say, we will try him on a boat. boating.likes to go it turns out the president had a tendency to get seasick. i guess the disaster was when they decided to code to washington to williamsburg and it didn't turn out well. they said we have great fishing. the president did not like to go fishing. found out that mrs. truman liked to go fishing. the president said all i get to do when i go to her is eight the hook and take the fish off of it. he didn't like to go fishing with mrs. truman user. -- either. the navy said they were doing well with him and did not figure he would be here too long. th

it was built as the navy commanders home back in 1890. served a number of various commanders over almost 100 years. it was slightly interrupted by andidents taft and truman eisenhower and kennedy and jimmy carter. the department of defense. we seem to have a continuum through american history. largestlding was the building on the naval base. it was 9000 square feet. assequently, it was built the commander's home. by 1911, he realized things were getting snug. he emerged it into a single dwelling of almost 9000 square feet. time, key west was the command headquarters for the seventh naval district, which went from key west to charleston. astor -- a general was inspecting the base and he finds that the commander has moved to smaller quarters because he is a bachelor and he doesn't want to bounce around in 9000 square feet by himself or get he left this hard home -- himself. he left this large home sitting empty. he was impressed by all of the research being done by the navy in key west. he gets home to washington to learn the president has

the navy on the eastern side. later in the war, we went uncoordinated strikes. >> it meant that this was north and south? >> yes. >> we have got some videotape, senator mccain, that has become a mini tourist area. have you been there? >> i have not been there. remember, the b-52s did not fly north until the christmas bombing of 1972. there were a number of b-52s that were shot down in that christmas. -- period. but it was an incredible display of firepower and had taken up the ability to defend themselves. >> we show this because we wanted to show you the neighborhood. this is a day in april that was about 100 degrees. and this, in the middle of that song with houses around it that was wreckage. then you have to pay a little money to get back. >> free enterprise network. >> you had to take a car. any reaction when you see a chunk of a american b-52? >> you could make an argument that they were not used correctly during the war. once they were sent north, they had a devastating effect. they literally took out the a

prior to his political career, senator mccain spent for the 20 years with the u.s. navy. before retiring in 1981, as a captain. his service included bombing missions during the vietnam war, where he faced injury and captivity when his plane a shot down over northern vietnam in the fall of 1967. as a prisoner of war and his early 30's, john mccain was subjected to torture in solitary confinement while being held in various prison camps, including one commonly referred to as --. he was released five-and-a-half years later. in 1992, senator mccain spoke about his experiences as a prisoner of war in the town's legacy in american history. from the c-span 1967, the people arrested in american major, john down with ans shot american plane,. near the powern plant. during the day, 10 american planes were shot down. during the same day. .ohn mccain >> that is a picture from hanoi hung.e voice of mr. that is a monument to john mccain or on behalf of john mccain. you tell us. >> i have never understood it and i visited it when i went to hanoi. i am not sure exactly why. i have gone to

the navy s.e.a.l. said, cope eck, you make the decision. at that point it was me in charge of making the choice about which ones to save first and which ones to save later. >> reporter: an enormous cache of extra air canisters were put in place and support divers deployed in the chambers throughout the cave. >> i'm not one to hang at the back, i'm usually at the front. i volunteered. >> reporter: british diver jason mallenson volunteered to escort the first boy out of the cave. it would be one boy to one diver. already wearing a wet suit, each boy walked down a steep slope into the water. now it was time for an absolutely critical step. agreed to in advance by the thai government, each boy would be injected with a sedative, ketamine, by anesthesiologist dr. richard harris. the shot not just to relax each boy, it was to knock him out cold. >> i was not fully confident we could get them out alive. we weren't sure how they'd react in the water, whether the drug would be enough. >> reporter: once sedate a face mask strapped tightly on each one,

the patriot who believed in his country and fought for it at tremendous cost to himself. as a young navy pilot, he was shot down over hanoi, interrogated and tortured. his cap is sought potential propaganda, when his father became the commander of us forces in the unarmed and offered him released. butjohn mccain refused, despite the many beatings he had suffered. on his return, he was hailed as a war hero and entered politics. he would eventually spend 35 years representing republicans inside congress, but he was fiercely independent and often spoke out against the party, notably challenging the influence of big money on american politics. the party establishment will not finish me off anywhere. because i will break the iron triangle in washington of money, lobbying and legislation and they know would that would be very financially disruptive to many people ‘s lives at. would be very financially disruptive to many people 's lives at. he may have challenged washington, but he was respected here too. in 2008 he was respected here too. in 2008 he was a republic —— presidential candidate, bu

the navy hymn. may john mccain rest in peace. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. cardin: mr. president, i rise today to express great sadness for the passing of senator john mccain. it marks a deep loss for this country, the state of arizona, and above all his family and friends. john mccain was an honorable public servant who sacrificed greatly to serve his country in uniform and as a lawmaker proudly represented the people of arizona. mr. president, i will always remember the bipartisan luncheon that we had. when senator mccain recounted his experiences as a prisoner of war in vietnam. there wasn't a dry eye in our caucus. in my visit to vietnam, i had a chance to visit the hanoi hilton and see firsthand the place where john mccain acted so bravely. he was truly an american hero. i'd like to express my deepest sympathies and condolences to cindy, their children, and their family at this very difficult time. in his final letter to americans, senator mccain reminded us that, and i quote, we are citizens of the world's greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil.

the navy was taking anyone they could. when we moved into the age of steam during president theodore roosevelt administration, we are certainly we cannot have to go three stories a lot about rat line during the storm to trim a il, that's the purse itself of the african-american ehlers -- sailors except stewards and cooks. it was the advent of steam. race and the story of our armed forces. it is tied to technology and efficiency. >> that is a very interesting point. given thestruggle, avenue and flow with the and flowy -- ebb with the technology in order to , fight, why did they stick with the military? why did the african-american scarcity deeply about the military? why was that the place to throw down the gauntlet? >> i think the opportunities. we wanted to serve our country, we are patriotic. education benefits. angelait earlier that my ou, they were doing it for the generations to come, to give us the opportunity. it opened a lot of doors for others. >> do you think the african-american community saw the military as a pl

reconnaissance plane in vietnam, one of the most decorated pilots in the navy during that era. people like him were great. like my father-in-law. my father-in-law flew reconnaissance in world war ii, in the pacific. he did everything he could to help the country during a give time. there were so many people who did that in our country. we owe them all a debt of gratitude, a debt of thanks. we need to all remember we're all americans. we owe those who saved us as a country, kept our freedom when we were about to lose it, fought for us, risked their lives, and died for us, we owe them at times like this to elevate them to the appropriate place in history. that's what i'm trying to do with john mccain today. i want to elevate john. john was better than me, and i know it. john was the best of my generation. john mccain was and is a great human being. i don't know what's going to be said in the next few days about john mccain, by whomever it's going to be said. i don't know what's going to be done. but anybody who in any way tarnishes the reputation of john mccain d

clay at was secretary of the navy. we don't know. bill do you have any thoughts on that? >> interestingly, clayer was mcvay's wife's cousin and one of the rescues so he is on the sea during the rescue and mcvay's wife's cousin and becomes secretary of the navy, signed our commission. ... and we did not take on. and at that time with some of the greatest history of all time. >> but that is one of the things in the research. that their brother senior officers one -- officers -- officers who should've been held accountable. and that turned out to be correct about actual correspondence between admiral of who should have been held accountable and that ended the speculation not only that that should have happened but also that the navy willfully did not do so. so i know that we are out of time, thank you very much f you would like us to sign the book, is this where we are doing it? jim will be here off to the right if you want to get a card from him you can do it before or after getting book signed and thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> bo

his service began in the u.s. navy as a pilot. was shot down over vietnam where he was taken as a prisoner of war but later returned home as a war hero. he went on to becoming the united states representative before moving on to the u.s. senate where he was still serving when he passed. he was chairman of the armed services committee. senator mccain is survived by his wife cindy, his seven children. today would have been his 82nd birthday. today, the arizona republic put together dozens of photos of senator mccain through the years to honor his life, legacy and service. these are just a few of those many photos. ♪ >>> hi there, brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. the president is looking for a new lawyer, not for himself personally, in the russian probe, but for the white house officially in the office of white house counsel. trump just announced don mcgahn's departure, where else? on twitter, saying mcgahn who got the job weeks after the 2016 election, quote, will be leaving his position in the fall shortly after the confirmatio

it is a warning from the former head of the navy. he ca res the former head of the navy. uite rightly about the size of the navy. he was one of the size of the navy. he was one of the more successful goats. he is worried that we only have three fishery patrol vessels. especially after brexit. when these waters become even more contested than they are now. this is happening while we are now. this is happening while we are still inside the eu. this is the footage of french and british chemin assuming abuse at each other. the a nswer to assuming abuse at each other. the answer to these scallops are very precious and their self a huge sums of money. they are protected under french law. there seems to be a lot of dispute about where the boundaries are and i hate to mention brexit but this does all play. where we can fish, how much water is given away. if you are to look on a purely economic basis, in return for financial services. one part of the english channel. it's going to christen some very hard feelings. having more boats, arguing with french boats. its nostalgic and its

my son joined the navy this year. several months ago, back in the winter, i thought it would be nice to give him advice by senator mccain. everything he was going to with his staff, he took time to pen a letter to my son. i would like to read a little bit for you. >> go ahead. >> as you may know, my father and grandfather served in the navy, great courage and tough acts to follow. they inspired me to have a cause greagter than my own. it was their leadership that encouraged me to work for other people. god blessed me with a company of heroes and it made all the difference in my life and closed with this. be proud of your accomplishments. never stop believing in yourself and, most importantly, you will find the most happiness in serving a cause greater than yourself. john mccain. >> beautiful words. a real gentleman. >> yeah. >> i'm sure your son who is now serving in the navy appreciated what the senator wrote. you know, it's been a rather contentious day, chris cillizza. the relationship john mccain had with the presi

a civilian attorney for the department of the navy. he is the author of root and branch. thurgood marshall and the struggle to end segregation. the book we're going to talk wars,tonight, how protests, and harry truman segregated the military. ,nd if i fail to mention it this is a little advertising. if you would like to purchase one you can do that on your way out tonight. james has graciously offered to sign those copies. anyway, to get started i would like to ask you that i would like to say welcome to you. i would like you to reflect for a moment on the significance of this day. this is july 20 6, 7 years ago today that harry truman did what a lot of historians have said was perhaps the most significant thing that he did while in office. in terms of the impact it has had over the intervening decades. on thee your thoughts significance of this a? -- of this day? >> him desegregating the military, i wouldn't have the opportunity that i have now. and for opportunities for travel and training and education. there is a significant event in our history. thatd it's worth noti

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you have the navy joint attacks. you have air force attacks. one that we're not familiar with today. you can see one, two, three, four, five. the air force and some the south enemy's air force will get this routes are going into one. the navy gets two, three, four and air force gets five and 6a. i thought that was a great example. later when there's a recognition of this graduated response and an idea of now we're going to allow airfields. there is this effort to go after the names who have been having great success. the navy wanted part of that. it took a lot of coordination to break down the barriers. other than that you were kept to your place. i thought the reading did a good job. there's the general. some air force commander. you'll end up penning a book five years after the conflict. i think it came out in '78, which is a good book for us to reflect on. this would be the aircraft you think might be carrying out these missions in total. we would not let them go up north. they can only see action up in that northern part of vietnam. it will

i don't know how it would be possible. >> both his father and grandfather were admirals in the navy. , his life was pretty much laid out for him from the day he was born. >> john mccain was born august 29th, 1936, in the panama canal zone. bo born not just into a military family, but a naval dynasty. >> his grandfather was there on the deck of the missouri, standing in a position of honor when douglas macarthur accepted the surrender of the japanese. >> it was expected that he would be in the nay vevy for his care. he would become an admiral. >> that's a tough burden to bear for a young man and as a young man, he kind of rebelled against the idea that his future was already set for him. he sort of fought against it. >> i was immature and a bit resentful that my path had been charted for me, either intentionally or unintentionally, by my parents. ♪ >> in spite of his family histo history, the young mccain was not a star pupil at the academy. far from it. >> as he would always remind you, he wasn't quite last in his class, but he was really close to last in his class. >> diane sayi iesa

the u.s. navy and marine corps for the central pacific was based on the principals of mass and fire power. in a place called imp o screama for example they had three or four days destroying the beaches and then the landing took place. that's not what they did at normandy. if we were the british the british tended to conduct operations based on the principal of surprise. they went in with stealth. they went in under the cover of darkness. they were going in against a continent so they had to have a different war fare doctrine. two different approaches. the u.s. navy and the british. what they tried to do at normandy was merge those into an operational doctrine for the plan. what happened was ultimately neither one of these doctrines, both doctrines that they had, the british were better than what they came up with in terms of solutions. that's the these and the argument we want to make today. however let's see if we can go ahead and start this discussion. where were we last class? the strategic bomb

in 1981 he left the navy which was a pretty rebellious thing to do for the son and grandson of navy admiralsbut he really decided that that was where he was going to cut his teeth. and that was the moment that really sort of changed his life and changed his arc away from at that life long sailer to a maverick senator/patriot/hero. >> you mentioned the former vice president, joe biden, tell me the last time you saw senator mccain and anything that was exchanged there. >> yeah, there was an event in philadelphia at the constitution center where joe biden presented mccain on a cold monday night the liberty medal that's given out up there every year. and mccain became emotional after biden introduced him. two days later i saw hmm just off the senate floor and i had this exchange where i said gosh you looked like you were getting emotional up there on stage. and mccain spent a minute or two just telling the story of how he met young beau biden, the future vice president's son, after biden had come to the senate in the worst possible way, his wife and daughter dying in a crash, and then trying to

you were in the navy for how many years? >> a total of 22 years. inraduated in the economy 1958 and left the navy in early 1981. >> when did the plane go down? >> october 26, 1967. i was hit by a missile over the sea of hanoi and we were bombing the thermal power plant. it was the first time we bombed target inside hanoi. as many viewers will remember, they were heavily defended. i counted eight surface-to-air missiles headed in my direction, and one of them hit me. how badly were you injured? >> i broke both arms and my legs. when i was pulled out, my shoulder was badly damaged by a rifle. they were quite restless. fortunately for me, the army came up and picked me up and put me in a truck. it was a five minute ride to the prison. that is another example of waste of the taxpayers dollars and i had gone to escape and evasion and i was shot down in the center of annoyed five minutes from the prison. >> how many years we and the prison? >> 5.5 years. >>, a different prisons? >> i was in three different prisons. one was called the plantation that you h

he's in his late 70s, learning about the navy that he loved so much. the other thing is, just, you hear joe biden talk about he'd show up in the senate, everyone is giving wonderful tributes. but he was a tough s.o.b. he would have big fights on the senate floor. in the hallway covering, trying to chase him down for a quote, and he'd say ed henry, you jerk, what do you want. that was his sense of humor. he was blunt, sarcastic, he'd want to know what you're working on. >> dana: i wanted to ask about that. unlike many politicians and elected officials in washington, d.c., he was really accessible to the press. >> he was. that helped with sort of more reverential coverage of him. he got better press coverage than a lot of other republicans, as you know, because he was accessible. maybe there's a lesson for some other republicans to not be closed off from the press. a push and a pull there. but he also got more favorable coverage many times. if you go back and look, when he was the maverick taking on the republican establishment, the mainstream media loved

i was a commander in the u.s. navy! even in the twilight of his life, the wit and wisecracks were as strong as ever. i had the honor of visiting senator mccain about six weeks ago in arizona with his wonderful wife, cindy. we were talking about the national defense authorization act that he was -- we were getting ready to sign -- we were getting ready to vote on that was named after him. and i was getting ready to leave and i said, john, i just want you to know all your senate colleagues really, really miss you. he hadn't said much during the conversation. he looked at me and said, dan, that's a lie. again, after all he'd been three, he still had a lightness of being and wit and laughter. he still knew how to love the world, to appreciate it in all its humor, splendor and creativity. the story of john mccain is a story for the ages. care-free, somewhat reckless young man, a rebel searching for a cause who found that cause and love of country as a p.o.w. in vietnam. he underwent unimaginable suffering yet came back and lo

and this fact one of the navy sailors said they looked like villages. na wants to lay claim to possible energy deposits below the sea, they're poised to be in a good position to do that, degs spite competing claims from other countries in the region like the philippines, like vietnam, jim. >> fascinating to see china expand their sphere of influence and creating their own sphere of influence in some places. ivan watson. let's bring back john kirby. john, it does foot look like they're giving up this manmade creation of theirs any time soon. >> no, not at all. he said it really well, sphere of influence. they have created that. they have intention of giving up for that. a third of global maritime traffic goes through the south china sea. and something like two-thirds of chinese traffic goes through there. it's security. they very much want a snephere influence. a ring of defensible bases around the south china sea to protect what they believe is their own sovereignty, at the expense of the security and sovereignty of nations that border the sea. >> john k

and john became the navy liaison officer in the united states senate. there is an office that then used to be on the basement floor. members of the military who are assigned to senators when they travel abroad to meet with heads of state or other foreign dignitaries, and john had recently been released from the hanoi hilton, a genuine hero, and became the navy liaison. for some reason we hit it off from the beginning. we were both full of dreams and ambitions an overwhelming desire to make the time we had there worthwhile, to try to do the right thing, to think about how we could make things better for the country we love so much. and john and i ended up traveling. every time i went anywhere, i took john with me or john took me with him. we were in china, japan, russia, germany, france, england, turkey, all over the world, tens of thousands of miles. and we would sit on that plane, and late at night when everyone else was asleep we would just talk, getting to know one another. we would talk about family, talk about politics, talk about international rel

met john mccain when i was a young staffer in senator bill cohen's office and john was serving as the navy's liaison officer. as a fellow senator for the past 21 years, i knew him as a trusted colleague, a courageous legislator, and a close friend. john was a true american hero, who devoted his life to serving his country. courage and character were the ha hallmarks of his military service as well as his work in congress. in the senate he was a consequential leader on the most critical issues facing our country. john mccain was one of our congress's most respected voices for a strong national defense and for good government. his words was as much his bond in washington as it was to his brothers in the armed -- in vietnam. madam president, i'd like to share with my colleagues a story which i believe demonstrates the essential character of john mccain. in november of 2010 john was part of a congressional delegation on its way to a security conference in nova scotia. bad weather caused their flight to be diverted to bangor, maine, where i live. i shortly received a phone call to come to the air

with the u.s. navythe south china sea. >> part of australia are suffering the effects of the worst drought in living memory. a warm, dry winter has left many outback farmers in new south wales struggling tovi s and leadership rain is fpt expected in the months ahead. we have a report from a city 2 0 miles north of sydney. >> it's been two years since decent rains fell here but inrm g family is determined to beat the drought. keeping its beef herd alive is exhausting and expensive. caroms have failed in the monthly feed bill is $33,000. task daily grind that's taki its -- it's a daily grind that's toll. its >> everybody is a bit stressed. it makes for more financial pressure and you're stressed and trying to keep it together. e can see that our seasons are no longer what we would call normal. we have had the lowest rain fall in 160 years of recording. >> this should be some of australia's fine eak churl land but now the earth is bone dry d barron and many farming communities s areuggling like never befor

he was honored by the u.s. navyess than 20 times including the naval aviator badge, distinguished flying cross, bronze star, purple heart. senator mccain will forever be remembered for the torture he endured as a prisoner in war in vietnam at the hanoi hilton. the next guest slept side by side with senator mccain for nearly 18 months. the two war heroes became life long friends. here they are together in much happier times. sir, thank you for your service and sacrifice for this country. >> thank you very much. >> what went through your mind when you learned your dear friend had passed away? >> grief. of course, it was not unexpected, as we all know. the suddenness caught me completely by surprise. i just took a break from looking at the computer and then it hit. some marines do cry. i had a good cry. >> it's hard not to. he is a man who touched so many. you were a prisoner of war along side john mccain. you had a very special bond and a unique shared experience. you shared a cell for more than a year. what was that

the hymn "going home" of course from the bagpiper which is the navy hymn. then the processional "my way." this is so perfectly in tune with arizona. all of those elements. as we see cindy mccain. and the casket coming down the aisle. as john mccain said so memorably when he was accused in his first house race of being a carpetbagger. he said, well, the only place i've spent a longer amount of time is the hanoi hilton. that silenced all of the -- >> little bit hard to come back from that. >> end of that discussion. >> you may be seated. on behalf of the mccain family, thank you all so much for being here this morning. as we remember and celebrate the life of senator john mccain. a man loved by this church. a man loved by this nation and this city. a man of courage. a man of faith. a man who dearly loved his family. as we celebrate and get into the service, i want to offer you a word of scripture from the word of god. it comes from the book of 1 the thessalonians chapter 4:13. the word of god says this. brothers and sisters, we not want you to be uninformed by

the navy gets two, three, four and 6b and the air force gets five and six a. that was a great example. later in the work when there is a recognition of response and the idea of we are going to allow the airfield and there is an effort to after those who are having great success we will go after the airfield outside of hanoi and the navy wanted apart. it took extra coordination to break down the barriers and about the confliction. other than that you are kept to your place. this shows refueling tracks and it also shows something very significant and i think the reading did a good job of search and rescue. a couple good pictures. a picture of eb 66 that is jamming any radar. there is the general of the seventh air force commander. the intellectual air force commander. he will pen a book. a good book for us to reflect on. once again we have a fact dominated air force structure. this is the aircraft you think might be carrying out these missions in total. this would have been too much of a show of force as far as johnson was concerned. he would not let the b-52s g

located documentation of distress signals sent in the days after earhart's disappearance, prompting the navy to launch a rescue mission. >> and it took the battleship a week to get there.

hanoi hilton, but rather than allowing the horrors to continue to color his life, he returned to the navy before beginning a career in business. not long after he again heeded the call to service and won a seat in the house of representatives representing arizona. the first indication that senator mccain would be an outspoken leader and staunch defender of service members came when as a freshman member of the house he opposed legislation supported by president reagan to keep marines in lebanon. he refused to further endanger service members for an objective that he viewed as unattainable. it took political courage and conviction for john to stand up to a man who has called one of his heroes and oppose him on principle. this willingness to stand by his convictions and speak his mind, no matter the perception, would become a hallmark of senator john mccain. first in the house, then in the senate, and on the presidential campaign trail with the aptly named "straight-talk express" john was renowned for the candid expression of his thoughts and steadfastness of his principles. while john and i

rather than allowing the horrors he experienced to continue to onto his life, he returned to the navy before beginning a career in business. he won a seat in the house of representatives for arizona. the first indication that senator mccain would be announced voted leaker -- an outspoken leader came when he opposed legislation supported by president reagan to keep marines in lebanon. he refused to further endanger service members for an objective he viewed as unattainable. forook political courage john to stand up for a man he calls one of his heroes. this willing to stand by his convictions would become a hallmark of senator john mccain. first in the house and then in the senate. and then on the presidential campaign trail. john was renowned for the candid expression of his thoughts and steadfast defense of his principles. while john and i served for many years together in the senate, i was fortunate to work most closely with him during the past four years when he was chairman of the armed services committee and i was a ranking member. our hearing could be rocky at times -- pairing c

at the time it was really awful. >> i got a telephone call from the navy. w did i know where john was. and i said yes, i did know where he was. he was now remarried. i had the phone number and i called him and he knew by my voice something was wrong. he said what is it? i said, "your father died." >> we hadn't even been married a year. no one ever wants this kind of insight into family but what i observed was a family of great strength, great honor, great dignity, the importance of legacy and tradition was never more apparent to me than that day. >> there's not an exaggeration when we say navy family. there's a lot to the navy family. my grandma father was commander of the carriers in the pacific during world war ii. the day of the peace signing my father and grandfather were together. my grandfather flew home the next day, had a heart attack and died. my father was a very dedicated naval officer. i never got as close to my father as perhaps i would have under normal circumstances, but i was so proud of what he and my grandfather were doing. >> john had reti

initially, the navy was interested in research, pay 's.ds being put up in v2 the navy is a cooperator here since 1946. eventually the missile range facility,p as an army run and financed by the army. the army commander, which was traditionally a general, had three deputies, one each for the army, navy, and air force. those guys are then responsible for sponsoring their services testing onto the missile range. it doesn't test for just the army or the navy. it also tests for the air force. in the early days, they launched missiles from the ground and aircraft, that testing was on at white sands. the missile range does lots of things for lots of different people. the biggest contributions would be those early days, the testing , this istechnologies the one that people don't realize. or the blueprint for test ranges as a whole, for all up,ices, on how to set them what instrumentation you need, how to control tests into it safely, all those things. the missile range was the go to place for a couple of decades. we used to have instrumentation directors here who were in charge of developing

he retired from the navy in 1981. got into politics and served two terms in the house of representatives. he was elected to the senate where he developed a reputation as a maverick. it became clear he was willing to buck republican leadership. his career hit a bump when he and four other senators were implicated in a savings and loan scandal and accused of corruption. an investigation found though he used poor judgment, he was not guilty of any wrongdoing. he says that experience inspired him to co-sponsor the campaign finance reform with russ feingold. he took on the tobacco triwith legislation to increase tax on tobacco. he announced his candidacy for president, appealing to independents and traveling aboard the straight talk express. texas governor george w. bush gained momentum and mccain lost 8 of 10 primaries on super tuesday. the senator threw his support behind president bush and the iraq war but later criticized the president for not sending enough troops to iraq. he was the first senator to demand deck terry

rupert: this is the chinese navy politely telling the u.s. navy h go away. far out in the soina sea, we are approaching one of china's huge new bases. it is very clear they do not want us here. for the crew aboard this u.s. navy surveillance plane, this is now a daily encounter. >> it is a routine occurrence for us on these fligs. it happens throughout the flight where they come over ande come back with a standard response and it has no effect on any operations or anything we do. rupert: as we close the 12 nautical miles, t we can s huge extent of china's development out here. what we are seeing on the screen is live pictures of a place called mischief reef, and last time i was here it was a large now you can see there has been extensive construction. this is what it looked like saen. millions of tons o being pumped onto the reef to create new land. the firs outline of a runway, but no buildings. look at the same place today, fost of radar domes, aircraft hangers, and maybe a building to park missile launchers. using the high-powered camera, we watched as a g

nobody loved him more than people in the navy, air force, army, national guard. erstood them, he was one of them. he talked about public service. he was great friends with america's secretaries of defense. the loss is going to be profound for people that make a living defending the united states of america. >> douglas, this question, and i think it's central to the times we're in right now, but again, when people see john mccain, they do remember a person who would reach across the aisle. his motto, "let's get things done, it's find a way to do it together." you'll remember he did not like the approach of trying to repeal obamacare. he felt it needed to have democrat support. you remember that motion he made in dramatic fashion denying his colleagues the vote they needed to help repeal completely obamacare. the question that i pass on to you here, does john mccain, does he represent a bygone era of bipartisanship? >> in many ways it's a bygone era for now. but one always lives with the hope that bipartisanship will come back. i mean, john mccain was a conservative

because up above the doorway here is the commission that made him assistant secretary of the navy signed by president woodrow wilson. so below the commission making fdr assistant secretary of the navy is the doorway which led into eleanor roosevelt's bedroom. so we move into eleanor roosevelt's room. it's very small, not much in here, because eleanor roosevelt eventually had her own little retreat at val-kill hill, as she called it, which was on the eastern end of the roosevelt estate. it was a place that fdr built for her on land he owned. and after that point in her life, which happened around 1926, she began to use that more and more often. whenever she came to hyde park without fdr, she would spend the days and nights there. if she came to hyde park with fdr, she would spend days there. nights might be spent back here. but to her that was finally her own home in hyde park. and she really never felt at home in this house. this was her mother-in-law's house. and she used to say for 40 years she was just a visitor here. so she loved that little stone cottage at val-kill hill which she b

the navy has got similar problems. but they do have this thompson -- the best fighter for this capability. the a6. has got radar jamming capabilities. it drops, and he goes ad nauseam later, talking about the walleye munition. the idea that this is guided, it has no propellant, but it is a guided munition. it is all weather. this becomes a problem. of the weather capability of not only, can you hit those targets? have you included those targets? now, can you actually see those targets? are there any secondary targets? again, graduated spots initially, johnson really keeps a control on stuff. he doesn't want things to get out of control. if you can hit the primary target, you go home. later, there are some secondary targets that you can hit. those are the aircraft that are doing it. and then, i don't want to disregard this. i think thompson does a good job for us. talking about giving us those stories of the situation of pilots who are able to get rescued. there is a package, what a package would look like, going in with