So, we are in the hall of fame of the victory museum, where the names of 11,800 heroes of the soviet union and heroes of russia, awarded these honorary titles for feats accomplished during the great patriotic war, are placed on marble slabs. In the center of the hall is a tenmeter bronze figure of a victorious soldier. And by the way, here on Poklonnaya Hill. We will talk about the most interesting events of this day, here from the audience glory on Poklonnaya Hill in moscow. So, russia celebrates the day of the great victory. All over the country, parades, ceremonial processions, displays of military equipment, here are shots from the regions. Solemn march. Bravo on one linear distance, the group was prema, the rest, for example, we are coming. To please the performance of the state. The passage of hardware counts of the mechanized column begins. It includes more than 50 units of military equipment from the times of the great patriotic war and modern weapons. Reporting right to send t
The committee is part of a major transition of American Military leadership. If confirmed as army chief of staff you will serve along side the joint chief of staffs new Service Chiefs for the navy and marine core. You will lead part of the volunteer soldiers and time and time over a decade of time in iraq. The army indured 70 of the casual casual casualties. As the nation confronts the most array of Global Crisis since the world war ii the next chief of staff of army is responsible for making sure the total army and active guard and reserve remains the most decisive land troops in the world. We have drastic reductions in defense funding and the army is going to be forceded to carry out missions with fewer dollars, soldiers and equipment. It has been reduced from 570,000 active duty personal to 490,000 troops this year and last week the army announced they would cut an additional 40000 troops reducing to 450,000. There is talks the army could decline to 420,000 troops and what is worse
Center. We provide a wide variety of enablers that support special operation. We will keep the linkage that will not break. Thank you sir. I appreciate your commitment to making sure our military men and women are able to perform the missions they are given. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you general for your service to our country and your familys support of the service. You and i have had a good conversation on things and i will ask you what i ask most of the people being pointed. What do you consider the greatest threat . As a soldier and military officer, i would have to say it is russia. Russia is the only country on earth that retains the Nuclear Capability to destroy the United States. It has capability. Intent . Dont know. But the activity of russia since 2008 has been aggressive. They attacked and invaded georgia, seized the crimea and attacked into the ukraine. That is worrisome. I would also add china and north korea and isis along with iran including the recent agreemen
Commands you support as well. I have been concerned reductions across the services are going to impact the conventional source enablers that our specialop guys work with. How will you work with them on the reductions having on their capabilities . We are closely tied with the special operation committee. 80 of u. S. Special operations come from the army. So we are tightly closed. We are joined at the hip. One of the big Lessons Learned from the last 1015 years is conflict has been the synergistic affect. We will continue to work with them very, very closely. We have them integrated in the major exercise at the training center. We provide a wide variety of enablers that support special operation. We will keep the linkage that will not break. Thank you sir. I appreciate your commitment to making sure our military men and women are able to perform the missions they are given. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you general for your service to our country and your familys support of the ser
Thing, and then i will answer your question very quickly. Where you are being dishonest is the house admin actually scrutinizes every piece of mail that we send out, and it is signed by a republican and democrat to make sure it is nonpolitical in nature. I will also mention that he did not have a problem when matheson communicated more than the rest of the delegation. He did very well, he communicated with his constituents, and im proud of the fact that i have used the budget to communicate as opposed to use the budget to have a massive amount of staff members. I continue to behave fiscally responsibly by returning money back to the treasury. To your answer, it is very clear what we need to do when it comes to job creation. There are four pillars. People talk about three, but there are four that need to happen. First of all, job creation through innovation, removing regulation that is stifling our Small Businesses. It is harder to open a Small Business today that it has ever been in ou