Physical standards. Held at the university of kansas. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. We will begin or second session on the problem of morale and in order to mix up the format a little bit, we are having this time a series of short presentations, short talks by three participants. And then they will pullover chairs and sit in front to ask them questions. Our third participant jacquelyn rip who is an associate professor tried to leave from harrisburg yesterday morning on a 7 00 a. M. Flight and it turned out the earliest she would be able to come in because of a problem with the plane was 2 00 a. M. Yesterday. Shes not here with us. We have instead margory who is a graduate student and is going to read jackies paper. The questions will only be two the other two participants. Marjory is not going to try to answer questions for jackie. The speaker today, we begin with William Donnelly who is a senior historian. To be followed by eric flint who is the director of the u. S. Army muse
Political charges. We are here on honor to have the chief of staff of the United States army general james mcconville. I have been lucky to know you for a number of years and we have had you here at brookings and as super prepared to complete the chore as tour as chief of staff, it is a privilege to host you and it is an opportunity to honor you and thank you for your service and i will think everyone asked everyone to join me in a round of applause ask any everyone to join me in a round of applause. [applause] i would like to say more words about this soldier. He has been in uniform for four 46 years if you count all four years at west point and grew up in quincy, massachusetts near another young man, a promising future american named joe dunford. And Amazing Group of visuals an Amazing Group of individuals on that same town in the boston reason and he went to west point and studied science and a master of science degree from georgia technology. He served in Operation Iraqi freedom an
The title is have we in the United States become too dependent on our military so solve problem snooze i dont know if we have become too dependent but have become very dependent on the military to solve problems. One thing that blew my mind when i got the pentagon, and you have spent longer in that world but when i got there, like Many Americans issue assumed that the military prepares to fight war in the traditional sense of blowing stuff up and shooting at people, and obviously the pentagon does do that, but it was just amazing to me how much else people in the military now do, whether its planning programs to prevent Sexual Violence in the congo, to programs to encourage microenterprise among afghan women or training judges or producing radio callin shows. You name it, somebody at the pentagon was doing it and it was half amazing and inspiring and have a little bit scary. Host well, you very much in the book talk about your experiences inside the pentagon. You go beyond that but let
Targeting can occur in many ways from silver harassment to identified people more specifically. We must ensure that the entire army team is aware of the threat and suspect suspicious activities and responds when needed. One of the toughest challenges for the army is how do we address a threat like the shooter in choot chatnooga. To be successful we mustards this at a few levels. We need to continue to expand and our cooperation with Law Enforcement partnering with agencies to our mutual benefit. We need to continue to respond in coordination with the local partners to execution of the National Incident Management System across judicial jurisdictional boundaries. With assured commanders that they have authority and responsibility to respond wherever warranted. We coordinate Emergency Action exercises, our personnel know how to react when presented with a dangerous situation particularly when Law Enforcement arrives. We continually assess and improve note if i noti fica tion procedures j
Its not a complete process. The reality is is when she published those guidelines those of the guidelines and theres no avenue for the public to have input on that and i think thats troubling. I would disagree in the sense therethere is already been sevl places where they have input and they can continue to have input. They continue to respond to the 2010 guidelines, which are part of the foundation and the information we take into consideration. So its an ongoing education process. I dont think it ever stops. That may not be a formalized period of time but it never stops. The gentlemans time has expired. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thanks to the witnesses were testifying today. A few questions to the comp might after all this discussion weve had. The first one that i have is that when i look at data on the students that are overweight or obese, have we had any evidence that, which direction the weight has gone . First to ms. Burwell. Do we have any education on whether this program is re