Perna serve this Community General the armys material for nearly four years leading 190,000 military, civilian and contractor employees with a mission to provide logistics, sustainment, maintenance for globally deployed army. General perna is a career logistician to estimate complex supply distribution and Maintenance Operations in multiple combat tours with on the joint force and serve as at the national supporting department of defense supply and Distribution Efforts so as this with the back and its easier when he was selected for this critically important position. General perna graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy and has a masters degree in logistics from the Florida Institute of technology. General perna will provide introductory comments and then befuddled by dr. Hepburn, ahead of Vaccine Development. Following dr. Hepburn general perna will come back specifically to talk about Vaccine Distribution and then we will move into a questionandanswer period that ed and i a
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Color, irrespective of party affiliation. We are one america. And lets try to act that way. And i close this briefing. Thank you. As that herring comes to a close, lawmakers discussing how the Veterans Affairs department, this is a live hearing getting under way now on cspan 3. If covid19 turned into a pandemic and portions of the United States Health Care System broke down the va may need to come back and ask for additional funds and since then congress has appropriated 17. 2 billion for vhas covid19 Pandemic Response and i was glad to help advocate for that funding. Now im not sure that many of us here on the dais know what to expect during that february hearing nor did we fully grasp the enormity of the Public Health challenges americans would soon face from the pandemic. This is largely because the administration failed to recognize these risks and communicate them to the American Public in advance of the crisis. Here we are a little more than three months later and exactly 90 days
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Recounts his time as secretary of the Veterinary Affairs department. Ceo and afghanistan veterans of america, and after words has relevant hosts interviewing top authors about their work and after words are also available to listen to as podcasts. Dr. Shulkin, thank you for being with us today. Its an honor to have you here. I think the va is an important subject to talk about and i think its one of the areas of our government that a lot of people hear about, but dont necessarily know many of the details, frankly in the veteran community, i think a lot of us that dont understand the breadth and the depth of what the va does. Im excite today talk about the va in general and certainly about your book and about your time in the administration. If youd like, id love to begin by sort of what brought you to the va. You were successful in the civilian career and a lot of times making a transition from the civilian world into the government world can be a bit jarring. What drove you to want to