thank you, general yeager. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:

and so began the legend of chuck yeager. there were other pilots -- author tom wolfe wrote in "the right stuff," -- a movie most of us have seen, "with enough piloted ego that they were actually better than this drawn hat dog. chuck had a way with words. but no one can attest to the fact that as of that time, the 1950's era, chuck yeager was at the top of the pyramid, number one among all the true brothers. throughout his long military career, general yeager flew more than 10,000 hours in more than 330 models of aircraft. in 1966, he even flew 1267 missions in -- 127 missions in south vietnam. he received the silver star, the presidential medal of freedom and the special peacetime medal of honoring. he was the youngest military pilot to be inducted into the aviation havel fame in 1973. chuck officially retired from the air force in 1975 but maintained his status as a test pilot for another three decades. occasionally flying for the air force and nasa ras a consultant. in 1997 on the 50th anniversary of the his historic fligh

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i'm accepting this award for mike yeager and bill mcdonnis, [speaker not understood]. i think all the cities that have volunteer programs it's usually a handful of volunteers that do a majority of the work. these guys are both retired and they have accomplished so much within their neighborhood. they live in one of the biggest neighborhood associations -- excuse me, homeowner associations in san antonio, about 5,000 houses. so, he wrote his little speech so i'm going to read his speech. he would like to thank the stop urban blight organization on our behalf for recognizing this and bill and i are truly do not do what we do for recognition, but is very gratifying when someone takes the time and effort to tell you and the public at large that they appreciate your efforts and think you have made a difference that is worthwhile. i feel especially grateful that a national organization would do this for me. thank you on behalf of mike and bill. (applause) >> all right. last but not least, my personal favorite. jennifer nelson began working with me four years ago and through

. >> miss yeager, i don't know if you want to say anything from a national guard perspective. >> we have some mobile explorable platforms we can send out to incidents to help provide additional infrastructure in the event everything breaks down then our units have organic communications capability so i can move that out and i can help reinforce cal fire on their incident with what i have in the aviation brigade and units through the state of california have that same communication but the iceu, which is a mobile communications platform, is ideal in events like this to push out to help. >> any other questions? >> i have one. back in 1992 when it was a big fire season and there was a lot of grass, they came to us and i was down at camp pendleton and they asked us it train marines on shovel work. what happened about 6 months later, they ended up sending two battalions to yellowstone. i haven't heard any discussion at all, do you expect the military, the guard or the active forces to be training people to do shovel-like work? all you have talked about so far is aviation. >> one of the challe

to his left, colonel laura yeager, 40th combat aviation brigade. to her left, commander steve everett, to his left lieutenant colonel dana, marine corps installation west. thank you. let me go ahead and start off by talking a little bit and just going back over some of the discussions yesterday that i think are going to play into this discussion. we had vice admiral beeman talk a little bit yesterday about capabilities and vice admiral zunkoff talked about partnerships, unity of effort, unity of command. mayor lee talked about dod efforts, expertise, community efforts and as we go into all those discussions today you will see best practices applied during the 10 years from those fires. i have the pleasure of working for administrator fuget in fema headquarters. fema's role is to coordinate response between state and local governments and his focus, his direction to us really comes down it 3 things. he asks us to always plan for the worst case, the maximum of the maximums and it's go to see the department of defense is incorporating this within the

colonel yeager. >> i just want to say you can't underestimate the risk presented by these environments we fly in and really the relationships that we build with cal fire and the training prepares us to mitigate that risk. as rear admiral riveras said, bad things tend it happen at night. they also happen on the weekend and i think we have a 3-day week jepld here but i assure you we are ready to respond. >> from personal experience in 2007, i started training for fire fighting in 2006 but in 2007 was my first actual experience fighting fires and as i went in for my first dip in san diego to fill the bucket about two miles away was my brothers and my brother's house, his wife and my two nephews and that's when this capability really hit home for me, that it's an important thing. as was said before, every member -- we're all members of the community as well and it's all extremely important. the fire fight is important to us and we are ready and we count on the relationship that we have with cal fire. in fact, that's probably the most essential part of this thing for us to be ready to fight

it's called the chillies in the airport and you have a shot of yeager meister and you wash down a xanax and fall asleep on the plane. where does this end, bill? hey, i have a service pelican named gilligan that i insist on flying with. how about that? >> so you are not sympathetic i guess to ms. chenoweth's and other dog owners who want to travel with their dog? no? >> you know what we need at the airport? we need bomb sniffing dogs and narcissism sniffing dogs. these people have as far as as far asistic disorders. it doesn't exist six months ago. it's on now. every flight from this point on is going to have a dog on it. >> bill: so much the airlines are giving the dog frequent flier miles which will encourage more the madness. >> nobody likes your crappy little mangey dog, kristen leave it at home. >> bill: that's carolla, not me. dennis miller and i are leaving a free ticket for can a carolla at bolder fresher show. want to see it at the nokia theater it's going to be a blast. washington on april 26th. west bury long island june 1st. 80% sold out there. denver at the buel theater june

some of the faces in the crowd did notquestions asked," yeager said at a news conference at the countyin his state of the union address last night - president obama touched on topics including the economy, immigration, and foreign policy. but another big focus -- gun violence. and some of the faces in the crowd reflected that fact. the union addresses. the of congress. but seated in the hall. prominent guests who are victims of gun violence. obama. the parents of slain >> "just three weeks ago, she was here, in washington, with her classmates, performing for her country at my inauguration. and a week later, she was shot and killed in a chicago park after school." >>catherine: the president also talked about the tragic shootings in newtown, connecticut. >> "it has been two months since newtown. i know this is not the first time this country has debated how to reduce gun violence, but this time is different." >>catherine: it was after these shootings that the president proposed toughening gun laws. >> "these proposals deserve a vote. because in the two months since newtown, more than a t