Exciting and interesting. This one is no exception. I have seen so many friends who have come from far and wide, including my good friend all the way from texas. Thank you for coming. We are now in the portion of our program, we have had a wonderful introduction to the road to guadalcanal from richard frank. Someday we are going to do a rich frank symposium, eight straight hours. No one would object. I know that. Now, we are in the portion of our program, for the next three sessions, we will be looking at land, sea, and air fighting around and over guadalcanal. We will start with the land portion. Dr. Andy west is universal dr. Andrew wiest is a distinguished professor. He is the codirector of the dale center for society. That rivals the length of my own title, and i think andy needs his own placard. He is the author of numerous books, including war in the pacific, vietnams forgotten army, and the boys of 67. He is also a great undiscovered rock drummer. He is here to speak about the f
The director of command school, scott green is here tonight scott can you wave your arm . Thank you in uniform at the back of the room this lecture series which is about great military events, great commanders, and sometimes great controversies in the art of war has been ongoing since the beginning of my tenure almost 15 years ago. Its been our great series and the library. This is probably my last introduction because i have been drafted by the president someone can identify with that. To go to washington to save the republic, as you know need saving. As i always like to say the command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is self critical, self aware, it plays no favorites and it is the best place to learn from the experience and history of the battlefield. And with extraordinary teaching and technology to learn from todays battlefields and commanders. Its also a school for our allies and partners. And the future military leaders from around the world, a place where a fu
Before we get to karis forecast, i believe we have some really crazy video to start our Christmas Morning with. Hail in San Francisco, is that right . And lightning. Yes, just north of San Francisco. Oh my goodness. Marin county. So thats caused a lot of problems. It was just this cell that moved through marin county, it dumped a lot of heavy rain and even brought some flashes of lightning this morning, and so that also caused some problems on the roads, so as we take a look out here right now, i wanted to show you what it looks like on storm ranger, our mobile Doppler Radar. That moved through at about 2 00 to 2 30 this morning and has since cleared out but theres still some lingering rain in that area. As we take a closer look, we are seeing still some heavy rain pouring just south of that area in marin county, just south of san rafael, that move through, and then also in San Francisco right now we are seeing some heavy rain, moving toward the east bay also picking up on some rain th
Remember and honor those soldier photographers who, through their images, or a witness to the postwar destruction in a world forever changed. I would like to welcome lee reynolds, the Strategic Communications officer for the center of military history. He retired at there of colonel with more than 35 years of service. Deployedeynolds was three times. He commanded the forces network in baghdad. He was the chief of Media Operations and senior spokesman for detention operations at guantanamo. Professor insistent the assistant professor of military science at the university of southern california. Please welcome lee reynolds. [applause] good evening. Thank you to the National Archives Record Administration for hosting and cosponsoring the event. Reynolds. Lee i am the Strategic Communications of the surfer the u. S. Army of military history. The center of military history is responsible for recording the official history of the u. S. Army while also advising the army staff on historical ma
I am the senior president for asia and japan chair here. Before we get started we have to do a brief safety announcement. About 10 fourstar admirals and generals in the room. This former boy scout will be in charge if there is a need to evacuate. We will head out and had around the corner. We will head out the back. We have simultaneous interpretation. There should be headsets on your chair and if you have any problems just wave and somebody will come help you. Leave them on the chair when you are finished. Then weake them home will send the new Defense Force Rapid Deployment force to your house to retrieve them tonight. Eight here to hear from distinguished former flag officers from the United States and japan who participated in this years u. S. Japan military stasis forum which was established by the asiapacific initiative. We will tell you what we have been up to the past couple of days. Is very wellknown in washington and around the world. He is an awardwinning journalist, columni