Our speaker this morning, the former secretary of defense william perry, i first met when he was the deputy secretary of defense, and he and mrs. Perry came to korea where i was the c5j5 and i was assigned to escort them around. And i had a lot of those kinds of duties while i was assigned to korea. But it was the most pleasant experience i had and i say that honestly, to get to know these two people. And he then became our secretary of defense. And many of us that have served thought that he was one of the best secretary of defenses weve ever had. Hes currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and a freeman Foley Institute of international studies. He is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at Stanford University and serves as codirector of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and preventive defense project. Please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. applause what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of americas mille
Experience i had and i say that honestly, to get to know these two people. And he then became our secretary of defense. And many of us that have served thought that he was one of the best secretary of defenses weve ever had. Hes currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and a freeman Foley Institute of international studies. He is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at Stanford University and serves as codirector of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and preventive defense project. Please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. applause what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of americas millery power, the uss macon island. What a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the First Responders of the San Francisco bay area. Fleet week for many years in San Francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the milit
Macon, were learning the best. Firefighting below the deck, members on the flight deck learning about aircraft rescue, firefighting. Similarly, and i wont be able to stay the whole day today because soon ill be headed over to treasure island, a former navy firefighting school, well have that facility about 14 years and well be welcoming 40 members from the u. S. Marine corps, 20 members from the u. S. Navy, 10 members the u. S. Coast guard, where we will then partner with them and cross train them and use our techniques, reaching technical rescue and high and low rescue being demonstrated in display. We will also be having some of our u. S. Navy personnel on ridealongs with members on our ambulances, fire engines and trucks to continue with our cross training. So, it gives me great pride to be here to continue to serve as the fire chief, to welcome the military, and to say thank you to all of you. Heres to an enjoyable funfilled busy weekend. All the best, and thank you for your servic
In four years, and we feel what we believe are americas best ideas. Its grand canyon, yosemite, but also stewarding americas history and that would include independence hall, gettysburg, mount rush more, and most recently flight 93. My dress uniform and that famous hat is really derived from the world war i uniform from 1916, little changed from that time. The first rangers that patroled our parks before there was a park service were calvary soldiers. The presidio here in San Francisco sent Buffalo Soldiers up to yosemite and sequoia every summer to control the parks, to keep the poachers out and to begin the construction of roads. The First Federal superintendent of Sequoia National park was colonel charles young. He happened to be the third africanamerican to graduate from west point. He went on to become the first black colonel in the army. Amazing story. I believe hell be honored sometime later this year by some sort of a National Monument at his home in ohio. So, pretty interestin
Couldnt take place without all of the heavy lifting and hard work done by the San Francisco fleet Week Association. So, thank you to general myatt for your vision. This is your three of not only the celebration events, but what you spoke to earlier. Also the executive director of the fleet Week Association lewis lubin. Thank you very much. applause ive had the pleasure of serving in the San Francisco Fire Department for 22 years. It will benign years in nine since i stepped up and took the role of chief of the department. I continue to be proud of that. And i can say which i said earlier in the week, the coordination and the collaboration only gets better each year that we do this. And id also like to acknowledge the department of Emergency Management and all of her staff for coordinating so seamlessly with the fleet Week Association in addition to all of the other events that we have thats going on this week. So, thank you to our department of Emergency Management. applause as we disc