The interviewer looked stricken. Her supervisor quickly looks down at her notes. Shame wild and my throat and eyes. My humiliation was absolute. Even the doctors were laughing at me. Welcome to the office of Veterans Affairs psycho boy. [applause] thank you thank you very much. Again, thank you so much for coming. I really honestly very, very much appreciated. We have some time for questions. Michael and james are going to circulate with the microphone. Any questions . I am happy to take them. About any part of the story, past, present, future. Boy, that first one is always the hardest, isnt it . Someone is going to ask that first question. Thank you. I say that before i hear the question. Been to your story is a very personal one, something that is much larger and yourself. So stepping back from your disempowered act of witnessing, at least you were witnessing, do you have a broader conclusion about how International Organizations can operate more effectively . I have a couple of thin
Lyceum on a checkpoint. A group of insurgents and then went to the child of a launch. I got fish and lima beans. I try to a healthy. All nine of us are smiling and laughing. Still jittery. A big plate of ravioli and pop types. Before digging in, the persian gulf, the they have pumped cuts everywhere . Another better, too. Weird. He looks up and down the table. I cannot believe we finally had a mission. Its about time we kill someone. Even i chuckle little. We had been in iraq two months when the artillery units actually doing artillery, except so far we have only shot elimination missions. They usually dont want to risk collateral damage. Not us, not until today. Today the old and battery fires and we know we hit our target. Religion until the so. Pretty quiet. How many insurgents to you think we killed . Platoon size elements. What . Platoon size . Hq i dont have platoons. Why do you think we need the old and battery. We didnt . Each gun only fired two rounds. They just wanted us all
Joining us is aaron oh connell who is also the authority of this book underdog the making of the modern ma marine corps. What was it established . 1775. But the birthday is something of a myth. The marines claim 10, november, 1775. Thats actually just the date that congress authorized the creation of the marine corps. Its a very small part of the navy. The burning cars completely separate from the navy now. They are completely her. This became contentious throughout the course history. They would claim they should follow the rules of the navy. When they shared the regulation of the army and eventually in 1832 they became a separate service inside. Host had their Mission Change . Guests at the mission to change so much. There midship urged into the 20 century, but there were some in the jack of all trades. They would do other traits, most often as landing parties and the navy with 10 flavors and marines, investor of the 20th century he took on a variety of mission in haiti and the phili
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Certain rules of the state department they are not agreeing with. Not ratifying the convention does not remove the ability to object to the formation of rules of customary or International Either ran likewise, with effect to u. S. Courts, it reduces the likelihood that a u. S. Court would find there to be a rule of customary International Law but to answer your question, the ability to have an american to nerve on to serve on the committee and the ability to actually engage with the committee likely affects the committees work and may serve to actually ensure that those adopted are consistent with the american and option interpretation. Thank you. Its great to have Tammy Duckworth here, an american hero. She is in a wheelchair and in 1990, we passed the ada to make sure that there were ramps for those wheelchairs everywhere in our country. It would be great if she could go anywhere in the world as well and know that we are moving in that same direction. Thank you so much for your servi