each of these officers in their dress uniforms with their metals. it took me 3 and a half months and 170 hours to complete them. jillian: the family members touching the portraits. i am curious, you started this 3 and a half months ago. in light of the news out of afghanistan the last few weeks to the meaning behind these change for you or the family members? know. it didn t change it. these officers needed to be remembered, honored, the mission went on. i m in the process of painting all 13 servicemembers from the incident in afghanistan as well. it is always on my mind. what the family members saying? they love it. they were overjoyed. it s been 20 years so they are
within dover air force base where military mortuary affairs technicians, literally military members who have the occupational specialty of being morticians, if you will, will prepare the remains for forward movement to their home base. now, what will happen is those remains will be prepared, just like a mortician would. they will be dressed in brand new dress uniforms. they will be placed in a casket, and the casualty assistant officer who is with each one of these 13, will continue to stay with that body as it moves across the nation to the various hometowns of these marines and a sailor and army soldier. so all of these things are part of a process. it is a welcoming home ceremony to the remains at dover. wolf, i ve got to tell you,
criticism inside ukraine, from the cabinet of the ukranian government, about why this is happening. i mean, cabinet ministers have said this is, first of all, inappropriate, making female soldiers parade in these heels. they are saying that it doesn t reflect their combat status. remember, russia ukraine, sorry, is a country at war with. and there are 57,000 female troops fighting in that conflict. and also there has been a health issue raised. marching in shoes like that is not good for you obviously. and so there is that. the defense ministry has initially it said look, other armies in the world, they issue heels to female soldiers in dress uniforms, but it is also pointed out that they don t normally expect their soldiers to march in those shoes. so now the defense ministry in
gallagher should lose his status, hard earned as a navy s.e.a.l. and the gold trident pin that s.e.a.l.s get to display on their dress uniforms. but trump went online to say the navy would not be taking away his trident pin. over the weekend, the navy secretary was said to be thinking about resigning over this whole thing. by sunday night, he was forced to resign. defense secretary esper said he had just learned that spencer was trying to work out a deal with the white house, let the review proceed. let it go through, and he d make sure gallagher would retire as a navy s.e.a.l. on cbs news this evening, spencer was asked about the president s involvement in this case. what were the ramifications of intervening in that review process? well, right now we re not going to do it is what secretary esper says. what message does that send to the troops? well, what message does it send? that you can get away with things. we have to have good order and
u.s. navy chief petty officer edward gallagher. he was found guilty of posing for a photo with the corpse of an isis fighter. gallagher was then demoted but the president reversed that decision. the navy was still pushing for a review to determine whether gallagher should lose his status, hard earned as a navy seal and the gold trident pin that seals get to display on dress uniforms. but trump went online to say the navy would not be taking away his trident pin. the secretary was thinking about resigning over this whole thing by sunday night, he was forced to resign. defense secretary esper said he just learned that spencer was trying to work out a deal with the white house, let the review proceed and he d make sure gallagher would retire as a navy seal. on cbs news this evening, spencer was asked about the president s involvement in this case. what were the ramifications