Technology a vietnam and the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft here earned his ph. D. From Kansas State University with his dissertation the calls of the lightweight fighter 1964 to 1991 and ladies and gentlemen please help me in welcoming doctor michael handguns. applause all right. Ill try not to keep you from the reception, i did want to start off by talking about something that happened a year ago. There was an air force f15 flying overseer yeah and this is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture but stay with me, he shoots down an iranian drone. A uav, not quite two weeks later a second almost identical event ppened. I dont know about you but my twitter exploded. People started talking online, blogs are being written, people are arguing, and what they are arguing about is does shooting down that drone count as a kill . Is that something
The major driver of our driver is our president who i have the job of introducing today. She spent most of her professional career. To quote a piece, they wrote, steering democratic strategy, jessica, an operative who is little known outside of campaign circles and turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. I turn it over to jessica how we urned it over to a juggernaut. Thanks so much. Ok, great. The line is open. The juggernaut is powered by a lot of coffee and a lot of hard work. I appreciate everyone coming here today. Im the president of the dlcc d announcing our flip 2020 campaign. And we flipped 10 chambers from red to blue and did that since Donald Trumps election and flip red to blew and why state legislatures matter. So we will talk about the dlcc. We are charged with winning americas state legislatures. For me, this is personal. In the 2010 election cycle i was the National Field director and junior staffer and i saw what happened in 2010. In the last 28 days, i was sent
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Airmen behind the romanticized facades and described how legendary pilots like Eddie Rickenbacker influenced movies, comics and popular culture. Held by the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, this is close to an hour. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my true pleasure to introduce the last speaker for this afternoon. That is dr. Michael hankins. He is the assistant professor of strategy at the United States air forces eschool of graduate professional military education where he directs courses on air power history and national strategy. He recently published an article, the teaball solution the evolution of air combat technology in vietnam, 1968 to 1972 in the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. From Kansas State University with his dissertation, the cult of the lightweight fighter, culture and technology in t
Police presence in marin county. Still no word on why chp was chasing this car. We will bring you more details as we get them. At the live news desk, back to you. New at 6, we are learning more about the victim who died in the laptop theft in oakland. The victim, an ibm engineer, died on his 34th birthday. Da lin is live at the starbucks where it all happened. What are friends and neighbors think about this young man . Reporter the victim lived about a mile and a half away from the starbucks where the theft occurred. They say he was a very smart and kind man. They say was a hard worker, one of the best engineers at his emeryville company. Really, a bright guy, bright guy. It is just hard, itll be neighbors are grieving the death of this man who moved to this oakland apartment five months ago. In that short time neighbors got to know him as responsible, engaging, and friendly. We talked, he was happy to be here and enjoying life. When we found out about it, we just consider it a sad tra