This meeting will come to order. Good morning everyone. This is the third in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to play recess of the committee at any time that there is a quorum present. I will make an Opening Statement and then Ranking Member nunez will have the opportunity to make a statement. We ask for your respect as we. Roceed as chairman i will take all necessary steps to maintain order and that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and resolution 660. I now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement into the impeachment inquiry of donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States last week, we heard from three experienced diplomats who testified by on President Trumps a scheme military aid to fight the russians. By theerable but ukrainian president zelinski to political motivated investigations that trump believed would help his
Donald trumps ukraine phone call and i said it struck her as inappropriate which will be testifying alongside left and could alexander vandeman who also heard the phone call at the center of the inquiry and a little later in the day the committees will hear from could volcker thats the former u. S. Special envoy for ukraine and hes denied participating in any effort to dig up political dirt on joe biden and the National Security councils former official in charge of overseeing russia and europe policy will also give evidence to morrison had told investigators that he had concerns over trump allegedly withholding u. S. Aid to ukraine to force an investigation into biden well speak to our White House Correspondent kimberly hellcat shortly but 1st lets go to heidi show castrato shes joining us live from capitol hill and democrats will be hoping heidi that this quartet can flesh out the story so far. Thats right particularly this mornings witnesses elizabeth were looking at 2 National Secu
It is my pleasure and my honor to introduce our keynote speaker who is the assistant secretary of the army. He assumed his position following confirmation by the u. S. Senate in mid january of this year. His responsibilities include supervising Manpower Personnel and reserve Component Affairs to the department of the army and is the principal advisor of the policy of human resources, training, readiness, military health sales, equal opportunity in marketing among others which makes it striking that he finds time in his schedule to come talk with us today and we are grateful for that. Dr. Wardynski is a graduate of the Us Military Academy and hold same masters of Public Policy and a phd in policy analysis. During his 30 year career he served as a special weapons officer within the United States and in korea. He spent 10 years as an associate member of economics where he was also the director of the us armies office of economic and Manpower Analysis advising Senior Leaders on officer ret
Test. Test. Now, the next slide, a little complicated but its priority one assignments, percentage of the total of College Graduates brought into the army. These are both draftees and enlisted. Priority one was the category the army called wanted to be filled with a College Graduate. So some of the an acronyms on the bottom, men who volunteered for officer candidate school or enlisted for it. C. A. S. Stands for civilian acquired skills. Those are men who came in with skills that immediately translated to an mos, so they were awarded that mos based on their skills, such as delta clerks. A lot of lawyers got drafted and wound up as legal clerks. 91 seiierra, preventive medicin. Department of the army preferred mos utilization, these were moss requiring a high score in the Armed Forces Qualification test, such as 96 bravo intelligence analysts. Men could be assigned that, or they could actually enlist for it as well. Now, enlisted for an mos is men who went down to see their recruiting s
Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of economics at west point where he also was the director of the u. S. Armys office of manpower and analysis advising Senior Army Leaders on Office Retention and marketing. My favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the Award Winning stateoftheart Americas Army game which served as a Key Recruiting tool for the service as well as the virtual army experience. Im expecting that you should all ask him questions about that aft after. Excuse me. Among his military awards and decorations, ser