Radio listeners, hang on, the hearing is coming up shortly. We will be streaming it live on cspan. Org. Our responsibility and our duty is to cover the u. S. House and senate gaveltogavel. Lets take you live to the house floor. E hoe will be in order t chair lays bere the house a communication from th eaker. The clerk the speakers rm, december 4,. , 2019. I hereby appoint theonable to act as spear pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, spear f e hous oreresentativ. The eaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the ouse of nuary 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize mbs from lists submitted by the mari and minority leaders fomorning hour debate. The chairill alrnate recognition between thparties. All time shall bequally allocated beeen the parties and in no event shall debate continueeyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than th majoriy anminotyeaders and the minority wh shall be limited to fiveintes. The cir recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Bishop, for five minu
Military leaders attempted to confront the crisis that most of us have agreed actually did occur in the vietnam war. I am beth bailey. Ill be moderating this. Sitting next to me is richard hunt who has written the biography of melvin laird. Next to him is bob griffith who is the world expert on the creation of the allvolunteer force. And next to him is jennifer middlestat who has written a really wonderful book called the military welfare state. And i wrote a book called americas army, creating the allvolunteer force. So im at least qualified to be asking questions up here. And there is no way that im going to match in my suavity as moderator. Ill do my best. I think that everyone of us sitting up here would agree that there is no one factor that explains why the United States moved to an allvolunteer force, but at the same time we are sitting here as part of a panel that directly ties the move to military leaders attempts to manage the powers of manpower moral in vietnam. The presumpt
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
This is about an hour. So, this is the final panel before our keynote address, and it is the second section looking at the ways in which the military as an institution and military leaders attempted to confront the crisis that most of us have agreed actually did occur following the tet offensive in the vietnam war, the u. S. War in vietnam. I am beth bailey. Ill be moderating this. And sitting next to me is richard hunt, who has written the definitive biography of melvin laird. Next to him is bob griffith, who is the worlds expert on the creation of the allvolunteer force, and next to him is jennifer middlestat, who has written a really wonderful book called the military welfare state. And i wrote a book called Americas Army creating the allvolunteer force, so im at least qualified to be asking questions up here. And there is no way that im going to match greg in my suavity as moderator, but ill do my best. So, as i was trying to draft the questions, which i then circulated for comment