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
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
The next army secretary. Other nominees included the defense undersecretary for intelligence and for personnel and readiness and the assistant defense secretary who advises on weapons of mass destruction to the committee is chaired by her son senator john mccain. This is just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today to consider the nominations of mark espers to be secretary of the army or robert l. Wilkie to be undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness Joseph D Kernan to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence and roberts were Nuclear Chemical and biological defense weapons. I would like to say that ive been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense and the administration being cooperative and responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the Defense Authorization bill. I think most members were happy with their briefing that we received concer
John s. Mccain iii good morning. The Senate Armed Services Committee Held a confirmation hearing for several Defense Department nominees. Among them was mark espers to be the next Army Secretary. Other nominees included the defense undersecretary for intelligence and for personnel and readiness and the assistant defense secretary who advises on weapons of mass destruction to i would like to say that ive been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense and the administration being cooperative and responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the Defense Authorization bill. I think most members were happy with their briefing that we received concerning reactions on the uss mccain and others so we are glad to begin this hearing. We thank all of you for joining us this morning. We welcome your family and friends here with us today. As is our tradition at the beginning of your testimony we invite you to introduce those who are joining you. Sta
I feel very, very good that the systemic shortfalls and challenges we faced at the time of 9 11 have been addressed successfully. I will say going forward, though, as we look to the kind of information were dealing with in todays terrorism environment, the challenges are still there. They are still in ways growing. My analysts at nctc who come from across the Intelligence Community from every intense Community Partner contributes personnel to nctc. The design of reform but increasingly we are finding that relevant information exists in the nonclassified world. In the open source world. In the world of social media. So the next great leap for nctc, indeed i would a argue for the National Security community will be finding new and powerful ways to leverage access to open source information, information that is out there for anybody to look at, but out in such volume that looking at it in tpre of analysis and rigor you will want is a challenge. One of the things that happened just this we