Secretariest per hello, everyone. Im joined by general millie and chairman lopez. Today we want to talk to you about all that d. O. D. Is doing to protect our people, our troop, our families from the coronavirus and what were also doing to support the interagency whole of government efforts to deprotect the American People. First i want to thank all of you for your patience and commitment to the nation in this time of great challenge. Its a time of great challenge as we face the pandemic upon us. I want to reassure you that the administration, the military are taking all necessary measures to protect our force, to protect our people, to protect our dependents, to protech ore contractors and civilians. Ive made protecting our people our top priority. The second priority ive outlined for the past couple of months has been ensuring our ensuring the safeguarding of our National Mission capabilities. In other words, making sure we can do our mission when called upon to do it. Im confident w
Secretary esper hello, everyone. Im secretary of defense mark esper, im joined by joint chief of staff chair general milley and chairman lopez. Today we want to talk to you about all that d. O. D. Is doing to protect our people, our troop, our families from the coronavirus and what were also doing to support the interagency whole of government efforts to protect the American People. First i want to thank all of you for your patience and commitment to the nation in this time of great challenge. Its a time of great challenge as we face the pandemic upon s. I want to reassure you that the administration, the military are taking all necessary measures to protect our force, to protect our people, to protect our dependents, to protect out contractors and civilians. Ive made protecting our people our top priority. The second priority ive outlined for the past couple of months has been ensuring our ensuring the safeguarding of our National Mission capabilities. In other words, making sure we c
Big show this morning, joining the conversation fox business dagen mcdowell, moodies capital chief economist john and the brewer ceo, former investment banker and nfl player jack brewer. Dagen good morning. Maria we keep falling the bouncing ball with china story, yesterday when i spoke with wilbur ross played down november 17th when the president will meet with xi jinping to sign the documents and paper it up as they say. Dagen maybe better to set expectations low and theres only one president of the United States. Maria absolutely. Showing progress and hopefully close the deal as soon as possible, i think the market anticipates an end to this particular matter and thats a positive. Maria markets are positive feeling a sense that maybe theres something on the table but markets are fractionally moving. Chinas vice foreign minister and President Trump weighed in on negotiations and talked a bit about potential deal watch. We have a summit in chile or wherever that may be, able to sign a
Veterans, as you exit the theater after todays theater, archives asked and volunteers will present each of you with vietnam veteran pins come on the back is a grateful nation thanks and honors you. The United States of america vietnam war commemoration is a National Initiative and the momento ofs a thanks. The National Archives building is always an impressive sight. We are a tracking more attention. About threend learn. Riginal vietnam helicopters this displays presented in part from the National Archives foundation through generous of Bell Helicopter. Now you will hear from general richard cody, retired u. S. Army. General cody graduated from the u. S. Military academy at west point in 1972. He is a master army aviator. Over 19 helicopters and has over 5000 hours of flight time. During his years of service, general cody served in six of the armys combat divisions. During operation desert storm, Lieutenant Colonel cody led task force normandy, a flight of eight apache helicopters, int
The commander to move suspects on any kind of relief because its not a result of a legal determination. So i would say you have to follow a with the staff judge advocates. Have a question on seems to me people covered under cap theres a carveout for the expedited transfer. If somebody who would be covered under that is the victim of a sexual so what avenues are available to them . Kathy will be here in january to answer questions. So anybody who falls under that is uncovered. From this program, that is correct. And you have a carveout for that . Sony stats from the navy, air force, marines is for his expedited transfers would not cover family members. The statute doesnt make it a distinction that just talks about Sexual Assault. So theoretically there could be something on the other side. Kathy has some data for you nono on i noticed in looking at that data the 2016 there are 19 pages where the request were an expedited transfer was denied, what are those request tonight typically . We