You reflect on the morning of september 11, 2001, how did your day begin . Admiral thomas i was in the navys defense review. I had been there for about well there was a culminating 18month project. So i had been in the job for about 17 and a half months. My day began with a series of meetings and i was representing my boss in a meeting with another admiral in the pentagon. And we were discussing the navys contribution to National Defense and really just putting the finishing touches on our input to the defense review. Steve explained that project. What was the review all about and what was your specific role . Admiral thomas every four years, all the services and the joint staff and the department of defense have a report to congress. It is quadrennial he. A review of our defense posture in the force structure that supports it. This was to be a policybased review. I had been in the strategy and policy director at on the navy staff. I became the executive officer of this under a navy fl
Good evening, it worries them enough that israels tanks appear ready to roll into gaza, and the skies have been raining rockets there for several days. Perhaps the larger worry, both sides in this escalating fight have powerful friends that are getting involved and taking sides, like egypt, friend of hamas, and the united states, which tonight is sending naval vessels offshore in case americans need to get out of there. It has been another day of explosions and air raid sirens. It remains a situation on the edge. We have two reports tonight. Our Richard Engel is in gaza, we want to begin, though, with Martin Fletcher in tel aviv. Reporter good evening, they met on the agenda escalating in gaza and a possible ground invasion. The militants are challenging israel, by firing rockets where they never fired them before. A complete surprise, jerusalem, israels capital, was attacked for the first time today. This picture on the internet, two rockets fired from gaza fell harmlessly outside the
Good evening, it worries them enough that israels tanks appear ready to roll into gaza, and the skies have been raining rockets there for several days. Perhaps the larger worry, both sides in this escalating fight have powerful friends that are getting involved and taking sides, like egypt, friend of hamas, and the united states, which tonight is sending naval vessels offshore in case americans need to get out of there. It has been another day of explosions and air raid sirens. It remains a situation on the edge. We have two reports tonight. Our Richard Engel is in gaza, we want to begin, though, with Martin Fletcher in tel aviv. Reporter good evening, they met on the agenda escalating in gaza and a possible ground invasion. The militants are challenging israel, by firing rockets where they never fired them before. A complete surprise, jerusalem, israels capital, was attacked for the first time today. This picture on the internet, two rockets fired from gaza fell harmlessly outside the
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