Symbols of suppression. White supremacy, racism ngs and other toxic beliefs exist in our ranks impacting how black soldiers advance, their assignments, career fields, and how they are treated and assessed. Africanamericans comprise just a single digit percentage of Fighter Pilots and navigators, only 5 of army green berets, 2 of navy seals, and only 0. 6 of the air forces rescue jumpers are black. Structural racism still exists in our military formations. 43 of Minority Service members report they have seen examples of White Nationalism or racism within the ranks. These issues didnt happen suddenly but festered unchecked by a culture of indifference or intolerance. This culture extends to gender disparities we still see in our armed forces. We have made progress and this year witness historic barrier breaking firsts. Chief Master Sergeant joanne bass was selected as the first woman to serve as the highest ranking noncommissioned officer in a Service Components. Lieutenant junior grade
In the hundreds of cases, while we have prosecuted, there has not been one suspect that has successfully and lamented the entrapment defense. Entrapmentted the defense. Ken we will wrap it up. [applause] [applause] on the next washington journal, a look at the Donald Trump Campaign and his positions on key policy. And then the executive director of the young invincibles talks about impacting millennial voters. It features mark perry discussing his article in politico. Washington journal, live every morning at 7 p. M. , on cspan. You can join the conversation with your calls, and comments on facebook and twitter. Wednesday, Bipartisan Policy Center looks at immigration policy and the positions of the 2006 8 candidates. It is 2016 president ial candidates. It is live on cspan. , institutey night policy studies was the , talking about the war on terrorism. Who is isis, why are they so violent . These questions are in the book among the more important and something we can do about, what is
More direct warfare . Lighth the afghan likethe afghan team with the afghan team . Mike what we did with afghanistan was remarkable. I would not equate that with the same as what putin has done in ukraine. This is the marriage of precision warfare with nonprecision warfare. If you compare to iraq maybe yes. Media. Kim do you need to ramp up the number of u. S. Advisers on the ,round, joint air controllers things that would make the iraqi forces, the Kurdish Forces, more effective in the battlefield today . Kathleen i would say that there to grow. The u. S. Contribution to include special operators on the training side, there is no doubt about that. But before you grow that out, there is absorption of a capacity issue, the Ground Forces that are there to work with. There ishere i think rightfully a lot of attention in making sure that we collectively get the iraqis, obviously their there is situation pressure there, but think it forces in to get there and give them capable to work with
You can rattle them off there. I went back not too long after the storm and i saw a family picking up their belongs. I went up as a reporter to talk to them a little and said, we are ready to rebuild right on the gulf. Why wouldnt you move 12 miles inland and you can enjoy. They said my gran daddy grow up here and we are going to stay here in mississippi. Youll see people building homes along the gulf, again, in mississippi. But did you have a personal connection to that region that made this difference . Im from oxford area. Theres central park of jackson and south park. [laughs] it was a time where we would have given them to louisiana very easily. [laughs] you know, were all kind of one people. I think what happened our hurricane was camile. Nobody knew about unless you are older than i am. They had building standards to that level. Its not possible. You know, this tops camile. If you look at the map to the left just right there, thats where the storm came to shore, right there in m
Still finding people, because they cannot go in there until they demolish it, and when they tear down a house like that, they bring the dogs first. This is like a typical house where we did find a body still. Announcer Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast Region 10 years ago this week. The cspan tour one year after the hurricane, that will be followed by a 2005 house hearing, featuring testimony from new orleans residents who left the city or were trapped by the floodwaters begin that begins tomorrow night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Then coming up wednesday night, scenes from st. Bernard parish, louisiana, one year after this form as cspan continues its tour of hurricane damage and speaks with those on the ground. That will be followed by a town hall meeting in new orleans moderated by then mayor ray nagin. Announcer tonight on the communicators, this summer marks the anniversary of digital television. An author talks about the developing of the medium in the early 1990s. And then in june