As a proud army brat, it is my honor to introduce fourstar army general David Perkins. As the commanding general of the u. S. Army training and doctrine command, general David Perkins is it possible for selecting and recruiting every u. S. Army soldier, training and educating professionals, and designing the future u. S. Army to support National Security. A graduate of the u. S. Military academy at west point in 1980, general perkins has had numerous Senior Leadership positions over his career. These include special assistant to the speaker of the house, 104th u. S. Congress, Battalion Commander beating over 1000 personnel during operation able sentry, Brigade Commander leading over 3000 personnel during the invasion of iraq in 2003, executive assistant to the vicechairman of the joint chiefs of staff and Division Commander leading over 10,000 personnel during the transition of u. S. Forces from iraq 2003 2011. Q from 2010 through on november 2011 through february 2014, general perkins
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and the Louis Lehrman auditorium. Welcome to those that join us on the website on all of these occasions and for those here in the house we would ask a courtesy check to see that the various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off and for those watching online youre welcome to send comments anytime by emailing the speaker. Leading the conversation this afternoon is David Perkins senior fellow for Economic Policy at the institute for economic freedom. Before joining heritage he served as the general counsel witgeneral counselwith the natis association and seven chief Financial Officer and general counsel of the alliance for retirement prosperity and was a part or at the growth of Public Policy and government relations. Please join me in welcoming david. [applause] thank you for coming. Its my pleasure to introduce to you the commissioner michael buehler. He was appointed to the securities and Exchange Commission by president oba
Welcome to our kenyan election review. We did a kenyan election preview. I am not sure many of our forecasts or predictions came to pass which is maybe a good thing. I will introduce, very happy that we have a panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya following the campaign in kenya and i will introduce them in just a moment. My name is mark bellamy, Senior Advisor for africa at csi us, ambassador in nairobi, i had the good fortune to spend several weeks in nairobi prior to this year at the election. I want to start with a few opening remarks to frame this mornings discussion and turn to our guests. As all of you in this room know, last week 15 million canyons went to the polls to elect a president , to elect members of parliament, to elect governors to 49 counties and a number of other officeholders. By any standard and certainly by african standards this was a remarkable event. If only because of the thousands of Campaign Appearances by dif
Prepare and train for it. He spokes in Salt Lake City to talk to leaders on the international stage. It was hosted by the utah council of kip diplomacy. Its an hour and 10 minutes. As a proud arm brat, its my privilege to introduce general david d perk perkins. Hes responsible for training and educating professionals and designing the future u. S. Army to support National Security. A graduate of the u. S. Military academy at west point in 1980. General perkins held numerous leadership positions over his career. These include special assistant to the speaker of the house, 104th u. S. Congress. Battalion commander in macedonia. Brigades commander, leading over 300,000 personnel during the invasion of iraq, executive assistant to the vicechairman of the joints chief of staff and division commander. The u. S. Forces from iraq in 2010 through 2011. Most recently, some november 2011 to february of to 14, general perkins commanded the u. S. Armys premier education and Leader Development insti
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