He was deployed to vietnam in april of 1969 and on his second Southeast Asia tour, he participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1975, which, this evening, we will hear more about. He is a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania. And the National War College in washington, d. C. He later served as the marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military strategy. He moved to kansas city in 1993 and was assigned as the Commanding Officer and later retired from the corps in 1996. Please help me in welcoming colonel Thomas Holden to the stage. [applause] colonel holden thank you. [applause] colonel holden thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here. To talk to you tonight about some of my experiences and as i start, i want first to say that i want to speak on behalf of all of the marine pilots that were involved in operation frequent wind when we
Participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1979 which this evening we will hear more about. He is a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania. He later served as the marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military strategy. He moved to kansas city in 1993 and was assigned as the Commanding Officer and later ps in 1996. M the cor please join me in welcoming colonel Thomas Holden to the stage. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here. To talk to you tonight about some of my experiences and as i start i want first to say that i want to speak on behalf of of all of the marine pilots that were involved in operation evacuatedind when we the marines. 77 helicopters took to the air and accomplish that mission and we had great marine corps pilots making that happen. Unfortunately, like a lot of operations, it did not go with
April of 1969. On his second Southeast Asia tour, he participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off of the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1975. We will hear more about that evening. Hes a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania and the National War College in washington, d. C. He later served as a marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military strategy. In 1993 to kansas city and was assigned as the commanding officer. He later retired in 1996. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome colonel Thomas Holden the stage. [applause] col. Holden thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be here. Aboutk to you tonight some of my experiences. As i start, i want to first say, i want to speak on behalf of all the marine pilot that participated in operation frequent wind when we evacuated the embassy in cambodia. Airelicopters took to the and accomplished that mission.
After a poor first half due to poor weather and a weak yen. Fingers crossed, everybody, that today will be the end when we have to the end of time when we can stop talking about taper. Set taper gossip giving away to cold, hard facts when the feds twoday meeting concludes. The fass dak being up at a 15year peak on tuesday, u. S. Treasuries up for the fifth day in a row and the nikkei up on an eightweek high. Investors appeared calm by the prospects of a modest scale back of stimulus. But what if recent data turns paper light into paper zero . Get a look at some of the estimates for more. Cnbc. Com. Right now for more we have our own inhouse expert here in london. Karen has all the details. These are the estimates to how much the fed will taper. We have got first up let me run you through the numbers. Warptants expect 14. 5 billion to be taken off the table, up absolutely from the Previous Survey which averaged just over 12 billion. The poll of Top Economists said reduction, which is ex
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