Mr. Clark my name is allen d. Clark. My age is 92. My birthday is 10 september, 1923. Jini and where were you born . Mr. Clark where was i born . I was born in virginia. Jini will you tell me brief information about your family . Where did your family come rom . Mr. Clark well, they are primarily from the english continent. My mother from the welsh. My wife primarily did analysis of where we are and we have a book up to a certain point but we cannot go back much further. Back to about 1760. And we have all that in a genealogy book. I can show that to you before you leave here. Jini sure. Mr. Clark but i was born on the farm. My dad raised corn and horses and cows. And i was born there. There were seven children. Three girls that were older than i, two boys that were older than i, and one daughter that was younger than i. And they all have deceased now. Jini ok. And so, you are part of the hosen few association, which means you are at the chosen reservoir during the korean war. Is that
Indopacific region at the heritage foundation. His talk focused on the future direction of the marines and the technology in their future missions. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [ applause ] were sitting next to General Mills and were infantry guys so were not pal, but you look at the guy who introduced me and i dont know down in pensacola, they decide what aircraft theyll fly, but that guy will not fit into the cockpit and he must fly big helicopters. General mills is one of my mentors for life so its sort of intimidating to be up here in front of him. I if i could follow your foot steps and do half as good as you d i would be really happy, sir. Good to be here this morning. Dr. Holmes, thank you for allowing me to be here this morning, as well. It is a privilege just to be asked. In that kind introduction, thank you for also keeping it short, sir. Bullet. I have to think of how you got that call assignment, bullet and theres probably a story there. Dakota, very quickly, has been mo
Introducing, in pensacola, deciding what aircraft theyre going to fly, but he was not fit cockpit, sojet he might fly helicopters. General mills is one of my istors for life, so it intimidating to be up here before him. If i follow your footsteps and do half as good as you, i would be really be happy. Its good to be here. Dr. Holmes, thank you for allowing me too be here as well. It is a privilege just to be asked. Thank you for keeping it short. I have to think how you got that call sign bullet. Theres probably a story behind there. Real quickly, dakota has been more helpful to me over the years than you all will understand. But he is a lot like me in that he is a critical thinker, and thats how i was trained to think, every path you go down questioning that and for continuing to do that please do not go down that at all. I thought this morning i would offer two parts to this. First, i think i owe you some perspectives on the Planning Guidance that we published the summer. I will just
So welcome to the annual lecture. Featuring our special guest general david berger in the marine corps. He is a true american patriot, he is making very exciting changes to the recorder and he is here to share with you. We are honored to have him here to hear his insights and to see what the future holds for the marine corps. We would like to think the sponsor for this event James Mcginley who makes a series of lectures possible. The annual colonel lecture always features an distinguished speaker talking about the topics of national security. In the past we have welcomed david hansen senator jon kyl and james mattis, a distinguished list and were very happy to have another distinguished speaker here today. The Foundation Also partners with the Marine Corps University foundation to host this event. And Lieutenant General Richard Mills who is the president and ceo of the Marine Corps University foundation. General mills enjoyed a 40 year career at the marine corps and led marines all aro
Plays out his wide ranging National Security plan singling out russia and china as main threats to the us. Im Richelle Carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up. What we witnessed here today in the Security Council is an insult it wont be forgotten washingtons ambassador vetoes a u. N. Resolution then lashes out at her colleagues. And it later and a new era in South African politics well look at the expectations for. Take charge of the African National congress. And a new report says sixty five journalists have been killed this year well look at the most dangerous places for reporters to work. China and russia have criticized the u. S. President for labeling them strategic rivals singled out the pair as a as main threats to america when he was outlining his new National Security strategy a White House Correspondent kimberly hocket reports from washington populism has been a hallmark of his presidency and donald trump again struck that note as he announced his strategy for u. S.