Historians to discuss the problem of low morale in the final years of the vietnam war. This discussion was part of an allday conference titled manpower and morale after tet hosted by the university of kansas, its an hour, 20 minutes. Id like to welcome everybody back for our afternoon session. My name is charles bowry, im the executive director of the u. S. Army center of u. S. Military history in washington, d. C. Id like to thank beth bailey and the ku center for host ting this great event as well as thanks to our historical colleagues at the u. S. Army combined arms center in fort lerch worth, kansas for their ongoing collaboration surrounding the vietnam 50th anniversary. The u. S. Army has more than 500 historians, Museum Professionals working around the world who do their best to ensure that the his tor c Historical Perspective and Critical Thinking skills generated by a study of history are leveraged throughout the army and make the army a learning o. The army History Program pr
Physical standards. Held at the university of kansas. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. We will begin or second session on the problem of morale and in order to mix up the format a little bit, we are having this time a series of short presentations, short talks by three participants. And then they will pullover chairs and sit in front to ask them questions. Our third participant jacquelyn rip who is an associate professor tried to leave from harrisburg yesterday morning on a 7 00 a. M. Flight and it turned out the earliest she would be able to come in because of a problem with the plane was 2 00 a. M. Yesterday. Shes not here with us. We have instead margory who is a graduate student and is going to read jackies paper. The questions will only be two the other two participants. Marjory is not going to try to answer questions for jackie. The speaker today, we begin with William Donnelly who is a senior historian. To be followed by eric flint who is the director of the u. S. Army muse
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Many voters feel about the government. This runs about an hour and 45 minutes. Sen cruz good ever good afternoon. Let me begin by thanking you all for attending, and thanking senator hirono for working with me and my staff to convene this hearing and bring these witnesses together. The topic before us is one, i believe, of great importance the need for term limits for members of congress so that we can begin to fix what is broken here in washington politics. Before i introduce our first panel, id like to explain why we organized todays hearing. In the 2016 election, the American People made a resounding call to drain the swamp that is modern washington. And sadly this is a bipartisan problem. The American People have lost confidence in washington, and especially in congress. Enmeshed in backroom deals and broken promises, our capital has too often become a political playground for the powerful and the wellconnected, for members of the permanent Political Class looking to accumulate mor
Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of economics at west point where he also was the director of the u. S. Armys office of manpower and analysis advising Senior Army Leaders on Office Retention and marketing. My favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the Award Winning stateoftheart Americas Army game which served as a Key Recruiting tool for the service as well as the virtual army experience. Im expecting that you should all ask him questions about that aft after. Excuse me. Among his military awards and decorations, ser