[applause] ryan well, thank you. How is everyone doing . Everyone excited to be here . Not a great answer if you said no five minutes into the program. Awesome to have you. I was excited when the program was announced and the idea of the theme, forgotten battles of the civil war. The question became what to do next, and at the time that i worked at the fredericksburg military park, the thing about fredericksburg, they were massive battles. Huge. I like to study the smaller engagements. The problem with that, the smaller they are, the harder they are to study. So, dranesville. I was hoping to create a book out of it. I was especially excited to talk about it tonight. Poll the audience, has anyone heard of dranesville before . Whoo ryan ok. Do you know where it is . Less hands, but still a good number. It helps if you turn it on. First things first, dranesville is 15 miles east of leesburg and 20 miles west of washington, d. C. Engagement we will be talking about happens in december of 1
Washington foundation he now inks as an interpreter military programs at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation. Welcoming ryanin quint. [applause] thank you. How is everyone doing . Everyone happy to be here . Not a great answer if you said five minutes into the program. I was excited when the program of announced and the idea the theme, forgotten battles of the civil war. Question became what to do next, and at the time that i worked at the fredericksburg military park, the thing about frederick spur, there were massive battles. Huge. I like to study the smaller engagements. The problem with that, the smaller they are, the harder they are to study. So, dranesville. I was hoping to create a book out of it. To talkpecially excited about it tonight. Has anyone heard of dranesville before . Whoo ok. does anyone know where it is . Less hands, but still a good number. It helps if you turn it on. It is 20 miles west of washington, d. C. The battle the encasement we will be talking about happe
It is my pleasure and my honor to introduce our keynote speaker who is the assistant secretary of the army. He assumed his position following confirmation by the u. S. Senate in mid january of this year. His responsibilities include supervising Manpower Personnel and reserve Component Affairs to the department of the army and is the principal advisor of the policy of human resources, training, readiness, military health sales, equal opportunity in marketing among others which makes it striking that he finds time in his schedule to come talk with us today and we are grateful for that. Dr. Wardynski is a graduate of the Us Military Academy and hold same masters of Public Policy and a phd in policy analysis. During his 30 year career he served as a special weapons officer within the United States and in korea. He spent 10 years as an associate member of economics where he was also the director of the us armies office of economic and Manpower Analysis advising Senior Leaders on officer ret
Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of economics at west point where he also was the director of the u. S. Armys office of manpower and analysis advising Senior Army Leaders on Office Retention and marketing. My favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the Award Winning stateoftheart Americas Army game which served as a Key Recruiting tool for the service as well as the virtual army experience. Im expecting that you should all ask him questions about that aft after. Excuse me. Among his military awards and decorations, ser
Final lecture he gave before he passed away. The one place that intrigued me was my first trip to london and the health of parliament and big ben. Now these pictures, you must remember, are more than a quarter of a century old. The thing that entertained our boys stationed in england was westminster abbey. Quite a few americans stationed there came to see westminster abbey. These are the photographs i took on a sunday afternoon. Another thing that intrigued me was marble arch. Marble arch, on one sunday afternoon, it was filled with people. You must remember that london was being bombed almost every night during this particular time. I was photographing these speakers that were addressing the crowds. Every speaker was speaking on a different subject, but the police stood around and watched and as long as there were no strong arguments, nobody was hurt. The people in the argument in the audience were arguing back with the speakers, but these were typical shots of how we pass the time wa