This is about an hour. Admiral, great to see you again. We are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. Publicre plenty of issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. With how yourt came by service. You came by it naturally, you grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was an interesting person. Thank you forn the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I enjoy spending time with you and your students. I came by it naturally, my ii fireas a world war pilot and fighter flew spitfires, a british plane. We entered the war, we did not have planes so the british loaned us spitfires. My grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii, he was an army surgeon. My dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said i remember what got me in the service. When i was a young boy, i saw the soldiers heading off to france in world war i, board
Quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane. Because at the time when we entered the war, we did not have plans to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. But my grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii. He was an army surgeon. My dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said i remember what got me in the service. It was when i was a young boy, i saw the soldiers heading off to france in world war i board the trains in his small town. He said there was such a sense of pride, there was son such a sense of duty and patriotism that it was infectious. In addition to obviously watching his father, that really spurred him to join the military and then i g
They align with the current nationwide campaign for police reform. And he goes a step further on the, police accountability. It works to to certify officers for serious misconduct. Right now california doesnt have that in place. His recommendations come less than 24 hours after Police Unions put out a fullpage ad on sunday calling for Police Reforms and rooting out racist Police Officers. Unfortunately there is racism in our communities. The first step is to admit we have racist Police Officers working in our profession and how do we prevent them from going from department to department. It would basically list people that have gross misconduct whether it is racism, biases, just dont have the temperament to do the job so they dont go from agency to agency. He says that he appreciates the union speaking out and his recommendations are similar. He is urging local Law Enforcement agencies to adopt practices before sb 820 would require them to maintain those policies pick lets see if we ca
Actively denounced the u. S. For what it calls the illegal trespass of a warship off the shisha islands it doesnt stop there though china is now putting the United States on notice that its willing and capable to defend itself and then suggested that the United States should put aside its quote cold war mentality and take time instead to test and quarantine its sailors from further spread of covert 19 those are chinas words now this is a further escalation of the South China Seas controversy so let me help you visualize this ok lets do this lets go over to the map i want to show you 1st of all lets start by explaining where this ashish island is because most people look at this and theyre starting to wonder were talking about its right over here is part of the paris cell island by the way hes islands are tiny so its not like we could even show them on the map of we wanted to this ones off the coast of vietnam little furry. Theyre southeast of the Spratly Islands so these are the paraso
Actively denounced the u. S. For what it calls the illegal trespass of a warship off the she shot islands it doesnt stop there though china is now putting the United States on notice that its willing and capable to defend itself and then suggested that the United States should put aside its quote cold war mentality and take time instead to test and quarantine its sailors from further spread of covert 19 those are chinas words now this is a further escalation of the South China Seas controversy so let me help you visualize this ok lets do this lets go over to the map i want to show you 1st of all lets start by explaining where theres a shisha island is because most people look at this and theyre starting to wonder were talking about its right over here is part of a pair of cell islands by the way hes islands are tiny so its not like we could even show them on the map of we wanted to this ones off the coast of vietnam. A little further south these are the Spratly Islands and these are th