They understood that cherished ideals of Human Dignity and individual freedom were literally at stake. Easily more than 500,000 missouri and kansas citizens served during the war, from rural teenagers who had not finished high school to omar bradley of missouri and Dwight Eisenhower of kansas. Three of those individuals are with us tonight to share and reflect on their experiences in this terrible yet galvanizing war that ended 70 years ago this year during the presidency of harry s truman. These men need no introduction to a kansas city audience, as your welcome indicated. But they are so humble, i do want to talk a little bit about each of the men you will hear from. Henry bloch was a student at the university of michigan when the u. S. Entered the war. Having learned in school the horrors of trench warfare in what was then known as the great war, world war i, he resolved to do his service above ground and enlisted in the Army Air Corps. Trained as a navigator, he was assigned to the
Answer it in two parts. The two takeaways are the terms. Ncertainty and inflexibility uncertainty is the budget environment we are in right now. Not knowingnty of when we are going to have a budget or with the budget is going to be. As a navy, we are asked to with capablence ships to do our nations is this. To do that, we have to plan. We have to plan a strategy, a budget. Aviation andan for ship depot maintenance. We have to train our people and we have to have a plan for that. We also have to have a maintenance schedule. With the uncertainty, it is comes toid, when it the planning. With the inflexibility that we budget environment now, we haveht already seen what happens in 2013 and when we look at 2014, the combination of a continuing resolution and a sequester will impact our training. Its going to reduce the number carriers that we can effectively train. Had two carrier rings then had to go to reduce training. In 14, its going to be more than twice. Half of our carrier air wings w
Let me start. I will ask admiral myers and general myers the admiral in general to step in. The data that you just described in terms of cost reflects the positive trend that the program is on in terms of driving down we enter the as inservice portion of the program, greater feasibility to the operating and support costs that we are able to attack and were seeing projections come down in that regard and it is all good. The ioc dates set by the Service Chiefs earlier this year that reported to congress, those dates were set with a clear understanding of the requirements and capabilities and what they would need to be as well asthem realistic schedules to go along with them. Both the marine corps and the navy received dates in the 2015 3ft and then 2018 with lots capabilities. With thetand capability will deliver and equally, and more important, maintaining the path that goes beyond the initial capabilities to the continued development of the program. Effort on after great the part of th
Journal texas congressman gene green. Us to discussns her new book. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern. Cspan, we bring Public Affairs and events from washington directly to you. Putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, and conferences. Offering complete coverage of the u. S. House as a Public Service of private industry. Created by the tv cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. You can watch us in hd. Officials from the u. S. Army, navy, air force, and raines testified about how the fence as restraints and marines defense budgetw restraints are affecting the military. This is about two hours. The hearing subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon. The tactical air and Land Forces Committee meets today in open session to be seek testimony from each of the four military services on the impact of sequestration and continuing resolution known as cr. For over two years, this committee has held numerous
Conservation, creates millions of jobs right here at home, makes us more Energy Secure and Energy Independent and works with our friends, not our enemies. And i think we can get it done. Ive been around here long enough to know that things arent easy but i refuse to be cynical, i refuse to be, you know, woe is me, the world is coming to an end, which i hear a lot around here. I think theres a lot of positive things going on in our country today. The economy is improving. In north dakota, your state, i think you have zero unemployme unemployment. I think we come in second at about 2 unemployment in louisiana because we are busy working not fighting but working together to produce energy jobs for the country. So i was very proud to support this efficiency bill in committee. I would like, of course, to see some other additional things added to it, but in to move it forward, voted for it, to move this bill forward to the floor. When i became the chair of the committee, i had committed to r