Next, navy and marine corps leaders will discuss the state of the Naval Aviation fleet and National Maritime policy at a forum cohosted by the center for strategic and International Studies and the u. S. Naval institute. Live coverage starting shortly here on cspan3. While we wait for this discussion at the center for strategic and International Studies to start, a look at other happening on the cspan networks today. The National Business group on health discusses how the Largest Companies are handling health care. That will be live, 10 a. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan2. Then at 10 30 eastern on cspan, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosts a discussion on immigration ant 2016 campaign. Good morning, everyone and welcome csis. I have a brief security announcement before we kick off todays convenient. I want to share with you one of our Building Security precautions. Overall, we want you to know that we feel very secure in our building but as a convener of such meetings, we hav
Should probably make it more difficult for the United States to exercise its will in the world. People think that is a good thing for us to do. I have tos imagine that would be the case. And for americans, it has become an extremely difficult to do their job in these countries. They can be arrested. They can be harassed. They can be prohibited, as the New York Times has not been able to receive visas for its journalist to go into china. They have been denied visas because the Chinese Government is upset about very good reporting about corruption there. And that is true in other countries as well. Thereof been several questions about the fine line between reporting the news there have been several questions about the fine line between reporting the news and shaping the news. When it comes to questions about American Power abroad, fox news and msnbc tell different stories. They seem to be trying to shape peoples perceptions. Is this right . Well, yeah. Its not whether it is right or wron
British efforts in 2009 to stop the taliban advance in afghanistan while awaiting u. S. Marines reinforcement. Sunday at 10 00, a Senior Editor at millville house books on why his company decided to publish the u. S. Torture report. On cspan3 former korean war pows. Charles ross, an Army Sergeant captured by the chinese and held as a pow from 1950 to 1953. Just after 9 00, a look back at selma with Eleanor Holmes norton and bill plante. Find our complete Television Schedule at www. Cspan. Org. Let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us. Email us. Or, send us a tweet. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. All weekend American History tv is featuring Corpus Christi texas. Corpus christi started out as a small trading post in the mid19th century and has transformed into a modern city with the fifth largest seaport in america. Posted by our Time Warner Cable partners, cspans cities tour staff recently visited many sites showcasin
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In 1938 the navy did an investigation on the best suitable location for our Naval Air Station when the authorization came from congress to establish Naval Air Station, there were 12 in all. Including Corpus Christi, or flower bluff. This was the biggest and the best, and remains over these like 75 years. So vitally, critically important in the defense of the United States. Paris, undefended, fell into the conquest. In june of 1940 over in europe and world war ii already having begun, it just made clearer the urgency of getting a Naval Air Station, the funding was authorized to be 24 million. And by the time they finished it was well over 100 million. It grew bigger and bigger and the need for the additional fields. And there would be five of them for the primary or the intermediate or advanced training, instrument training building. So eventually, this became the largest Naval Air Station, not just in the United States but in the world. By the time of the dedication in march of 1941 th