I could provide you a long list of his military assignments but you have probably already looked him up on the internet so i will share nuggets that provide a better understanding how his career places him at the book festival today. He is no stranger to books. He started his love of books when his family was stationed in greece in the early 16s. Because there was no Armed Forces Network television he spent his time at the post library. I can totally relate to this. My family was in france at the same time and my whole family, all seven kids were at the library too. What is striking to booklovers is throughout his naval career, published either articles or books to include midshipmen. I suggest he would tell you his favorite assignment was command of destroyer uss barry from 1993 to 1995. His first literary book, destroyer captain, was about his time as commander of the uss barry. It came as a result of his daily journaling using a typewriter of all things during his 21 2 years on boar
Downstairs, in the gallery, on the west side of the museum, there is a room with a taxidermy bison. If you look to the left of the bison, there are a couple cases. One of them is a case of artifacts related to the battle of the little bighorn. Inside that case, there is a firearm, a springfield, acquired from a native named little moon. You can look at that object and contemplate how it changed hands, the travels that it took prior to that and the ways that might help us think differently about history in the west. Coincidentally, in the west, there is a small macabre basket. Maybe after this talk, you will be able to look at those objects differently. Maybe the objects will help you reflect on the talk differently. I was going to Say Something about trends in historiography, and about how different authors have been rethinking this, but i think it will come up. I will skip that part. It is part of a new wave of history that thinks about native geopolitics differently. In a lot of othe
Downstairs, in the gallery, on the west side of the museum, there is a room with a taxidermy bison. If you look to the left of the bison, there are a couple cases. One of them is a case of artifacts related to the battle of the little bighorn. Inside that case, there is a firearm, a springfield, acquired from a native named little moon. You can look at that object and contemplate how it changed hands, the travels that it took prior to that and the ways that might help us think differently about history in the west. Coincidentally, in the west, there is a small macabre basket. Maybe after this talk, you will be able to look at those objects differently. Maybe the objects will help you reflect on the talk differently. I was going to Say Something about trends in historiography, and about how different authors have been rethinking this, but i think it will come up. I will skip that part. It is part of a new wave of history that thinks about native geopolitics differently. In a lot of othe
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We do immediate feet back and do that consistently. Workforce readiness and performance and workforce accountability. We changed that. Its no longer based upon how long the lines are. Thats a separate issue. We deal with that at the management level. For the frontline workforce, i want you to know they will focus on the mission and support them with the best possible training and train them on the equipment and how it operates and gave them hands on understanding of what the limitations were. There is a fuller interest that i will provide. The gentlemen from tennessee for five minutes. Can you me how many tsa employees make 100,000 or more a year . I will have to get that number. Can you make a rough guess . I dont really know. I will have to get it for the record. Do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i restricted the number of bonuses we do. It was a significantly smaller number based on performance and not special act awards. Have yo