Prosecutors and defense of Sexual Assault in the armed forces. This committee is open. If a member of the audience would like to comment on any issue before the committee, please direct their requests through the Committee Staff director who is seated to my right. All Public Comments will be heard at the end of the meeting and at the discretion of the chair. It will be inappropriate for any member of the Public Gallery to offer oral arguments at any other time. Witness Public Comments may always be submitted for the committees consideration. Thank you, mr. Sullivan. Good afternoon, all. Id like to welcome the members, participants and everyone in attendance today to the Fourth Meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on investigation, prosecution and defense of Sexual Assault in the armed forces. The secretary of defense appointed 16 members to the committee, all of whom are participating here today. From ipad was created the National Defense authorization act of 2015, as amended. Our
Speak, a cloud comes over the sunlit arch, the wind comes off the frozen peak in the middle of march. So there we are. April on the calendar, march outside and in december in my heart. Colonel mastriano was commissioned 1986 and currently teaches military strategy at the Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania and spent the early years of his career with the second armored calgary in germany after the fall of the iron curtain, colonel mastriano deployed to iraq for Operation Desert Storm that led the main attack against the Republican Guard as a job using. Most recently he has served in nato headquarters in germany and in afghanistan served as director of International Security assistance for set the joint intelligence center. A ph. D. In history and the several masters degrees. His first book, of which he has been named winner of the 2015 called a prize is titled alvin york a new biography of the hero of the argonne and includes an important clarification of the events of that day i
Speak, a cloud comes over the sunlit arch, the wind comes off the frozen peak in the middle of march. So there we are. April on the calendar, march outside and in december in my heart. Colonel mastriano was commissioned 1986 and currently teaches military strategy at the Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania and spent the early years of his career with the second armored calgary in germany after the fall of the iron curtain, colonel mastriano deployed to iraq for Operation Desert Storm that led the main attack against the Republican Guard as a job using. Most recently he has served in nato headquarters in germany and in afghanistan served as director of International Security assistance for set the joint intelligence center. A ph. D. In history and the several masters degrees. His first book, of which he has been named winner of the 2015 called a prize is titled alvin york a new biography of the hero of the argonne and includes an important clarification of the events of that day i
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That. I was raised overseas. My father was with a. I. D. In east asia so actually grew up in asia. Really didnt spend any time in the state states until i can gea Good High School as a teenager. I think having, with that background, the idea of having a conventional career and based in the United States was little hard to imagine. With my brother, also, jon lee anderson. We both tried to figure it how we could get back overseas and stumbled into journalism as a way to do that. John lee and i get two books together, inside the league which sherman mentioned, and war zone which was an oral history from five different wars taking place around the world in the mid 1980s. And in the years since then, along with writing books, both nonfiction and novels, ive written i write primary for the New York Times magazine. Usually in war zones but almost always internationally. From the time i spent in the middle east, what comes up, when you of her have an insult conversation with somebody in the mi