From the 20th century to try to identify which garment fits into which decade. So thats friday. Hope to see you then. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] join us each saturday at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern for classroom lectures from across the country on different topics and eras of American History. Lectures in history are also available as a podcast. Visit our website cspan. Org history podcasts or download them from itunes. H week, each week reel america brings you archival films that tell the story of American History. Up next, sniper employment. Some of these techniques may have been used by the late u. S. Navy seal sniper chris kyle whose memoir was the basis of the Academy Award nominated film american sniper. Since the revolutionary war snipers have been employed in every war and conflict. During the civi
States used rifles to conduct sniper operations. World war ii taught us that a sniper is a weapon of opportunity and a typical rifleman cannot be assigned the sniper mission. Every marksman is not a sniper. Every sniper is a marksman. During the korean conflict, army and marine corps commanders failed to appreciate the techniques and capabilities of snipers. As a result, a Sniper School was founded by the United States Army Infantry school in 19551956 to pass on these lessons learned. It was noted and well trained sniper is the best protection against enemy snipers. They must be experts with specialized weapons and combat skills. Also, the commanders education in this area is vital. The Sniper Program was shortlived, vietnam revised the need for snipers because of enemy forces in vietnam illustrating the effectiveness of sniper techniques under varying conditions. Additional cyprus in vietnam used to. 3 rounds per kill versus thousands per round per kill expended by conventional units.
Our family was from alabama. I always felt that i had Something Special. Back then very few africanamericans in 1937 had cameras. My grandmother said my mother did not have a father, but she had a camera. She took pictures all the time. I always knew this was Something Special she had put together that she left the family and left the world. Mr. Evans has brought in what. Amounts to a visual social history of black life in brooklyn, new york, preand post postworld war ii. And the variety of scenes that his mother took. So, kids on street corners just at play or posing in a playground or trips to the beach. Going to coney island. Going to coney island. Young couples that are literally clearly according. There are a range of activities and scenes. The background constitutes this as a social history of brooklyn and the black experience in a time of immense change at around world war ii, a time of gender changes as well as economic and social changes. We are looking at a window of black li
From the countrys bestknown American History writers of the past decade every saturday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. To watch these programs anytime visit our website, www. Cspan. Org history. You are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Next weekend marks the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday when Voting Rights advocates on a march from selma through montgomery, alabama, were met with violence from montgomery state troopers. American history tv will be live from selma next that are day on sunday, march 7 and eight. Each night at 8 00 eastern well show highlights of our coverage. Here is congressman john lewis one of the leaders of the march, reflecting on selma 50 years later. When i heard that dr. King had been assassinated, it was a sad time or me and a very dark hour. I loved dr. King. If it had not been from him, i do not know what have happened to me. I grew up in very poor, rural alabama. Seeing segregation racism, he gave me a way out. Maybe a way in. But
Its exactly the reason i gave up my cell phone number during the First National press conference in september and i get calls every single day from veterans and to listen to them. Because youve got to keep that this will put the above were trying to do. Its all very personal. Thank you for your dedication. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I do have some questions that i will submit for the record. Thank you, mr. Chair been. Also secretary, thank you for being here. Appreciated. I visited with you before about legislation that i put forward, the veterans access to extended care. And its all about making sure that we can encourage Nursing Homes to take va reimbursement for veterans by limiting the Small Business contracting requirements that are currently under when they take va reimbursement but that they dont have to deal with when they take medicare reimbursement. Thats a burden that really makes no sense for them. They even have to undergo a separate so theres a lot of red tape, a lot of com