General Charles Brown currently the Pacific Forces commander has been nominated as air force chief of staff and James Anderson is the nominee for Deputy Defense undersecretary for policy. The hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets today consider the nominations to be secretary of navy and us chief of Staff Air Force and deputy undersecretary of defense for policy thank you for being here. We appreciate all the contributions you have a made me appreciate the fact you are coming back again. Some of these are necessary we have to ask you the required question i would like to have an audible yes or no on each question please. Have you adhere to the ethical laws regulations . Yes or. Yes sir. Yes sir. Do you ensure you will request communication deadlines for the record it hearings . Yes sir. Yes or, yes sir. Will you cooperate. Yes sir. Yes sir. With those witnesses be protected from reprisal of testimony . Yes sir. Yes or. We agree to testify before the committee. Yes sir. Yes or
Staff, and deputy secretary of defense. Our hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets today to of ther the nomination ambassador to be the secretary of the navy. And Charles Brown to be chief of staff of the air force. And dr. Anderson to be deputy undersecretary of defense. We thank you all for being here. Appreciate the contributions you have made. All three of you have impressive careers and we appreciate the fact that you are coming back again. Things arese necessary. I have to ask you the required questions. I would like an audible yes or no on each question. Have you adhered to the laws and wrecked lesions governing thelations governing nation . Yes. Will you comply with requests for communication . Yes. Will you cooperate in providing witnesses in response to congressional requests . Yes. Will those witnesses be protected from reprisal for their testimony . Yes. Do you agree if confirmed to give honest testimony to this committee . Yes. Do you agree to provide documents in
Ladies and gentlemen, its my pleasure to introduce the last speaker for this afternoon. Dr. Michael assistant professor of strategy at the United States air force eschool of graduate professional military education where he directs courses on air power, history and national strategy. He recently published an article, the tball solution evolution of bear combat technology in vietnam 196 to 1972. In the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. From kansas state university, the culture of the lightweight fighter, culture and technology in the United States air force from 1964 to 1991. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Michael hinkins. All right. Ill try not to keep you from the reception, i did want to start off by talking about something that happened a year ago. There was an air force f15 flying over syria and this is not
Tv military historian Michael Hankins talks about Fighter Pilot culture. From the National World war i u museum in kansas city, mystery. Its my pleasure to welcome dr. Michael hankins. He directs courses on air power history and national strategy. He recently publicshed an artice in the air power history journal and is writing a book that exposes the relationship between pilot culture and the development of military aircraft. He earned his phd from kansas city university. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Michael hankins. [ applause ] all right. Ill try to not keep you from the reception. Ill be quick. I wanted to start off by talking about something that happened about a year ago, last june in 2017. There was an air force f15 flying over syria. This is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture. Stay with me. It shoots down an iranian drone, an unmanned air vehicle. About two weeks later, a second almost identical event happened and i dont know about yo
Chairman inhofe our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving the posture statements. We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combata