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Serving as chair and the student nonviolent cordoning committee. Represents georgias Fifth District. Welcome. I am the president and ceo of s. Capital Historical Society. Welcome pleasure to you here. We are pleased that you are all a re to help pay tribute to real gentleman, congressman john lewis, and his commitment to civil rights. [applause] it is fitting that we honor john lewis on the 50th anniversary of the passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964. John was not a member of at the time he may he was by his actions and those of his influenced greatly the enactment of this historic legislation. House Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy is here tonight. At the him to join me podium. Thank you, ron. It is indeed a great privilege to be here and honor our great friend john lewis. It is wonderful to see so many people turn out. We gather today to honor rep. John lewis. Heres a man of principle. For that reason alone, i can think of no better recipient of the Freedom Award. For over two decades,
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Question from one of our multinational partners. Im from the british embassy. Just following on from a point you made that and with the recent events in europe and the repositioning of some of your armored combat teams back to europe, are you confident that under the Restructuring Initiative that youve got the right assets or enough assets within europe or john, you want to take the first one . I think we spend a lot of time talking to our rsccs around the world. Army service sorry. Army Service Component commands. And sorry, with the acronym soup here. We were talking about pegs earlier. Great record on that. So we stay closely tied, and the aviation Restructuring Initiative is about adding capability, increasing capability even though were going to have less structure because it is the best step. And were going to tie that to the idea that we need to become more expeditionary and we need to proat a time forrotate force basis. We did in hawaii this summer and we put a company out of c
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