The air force association hosted this onehour event. Gen. Holmes well, good morning. This has to be the best job in the world that somehow i fell into, when i look across the room at our air force family. Its incredible. Believe me, the chinese would not like what we are talking about, what we are doing, getting together here today focused on defending this nation, all of us together. So a special thanks to everyone in the room attending, and of course our sponsors, our Defense Industry partners. When we can put Defense Industry in the same room as our warfight good. Hats also, thanks to the media for being here. You all it criticized sometimes, more than you deserve. If we dont tell the story about the most lethal combat, conventional combat force in the world, were going to miss opportunity to defend this nation. So the medias directly involved here. The good news, this morning we have the leader of the most lethal conventional combat force in the world, general mike holmes. Incredib
Its will on a minority group. So there are all kinds of reasons for violence. But one of the phenomenon that we are now seeing is he very specific promotion of violent extremism that oftentimes is twisting and distorting. And i think ultimately defying the hedicts of one of the worlds great religions, islam, and groups like al shabab and isil and boko haram. And the question is how do we fight back against those ideologies that allows us still to be true to the values of peace and tolerance and due process and rule of law. So the United States is obviously committed to this fight against terrorism. And we are working with countries and partnering with countries all around the world to go after, whether it is al qaeda, boko haram. But what weve also said is in order to defeat the extremist ideologies it couldnt just be police, military and security. It has to be reaching into communities that feel marginalized and making sure they feel they are hurt. Making sure the young people in thos
Is not considering stop loss which is the involuntary extension of service to retain pilots. Held by the Heritage Foundation here in washington this is about 45 minutes. [applause] while ladies and gentlemen. Welcome. Its a pleasure to see these handsome faces out here heritage i will introduce a man who needs no introduction ive down and one for 25 years, 25 years ago this month we were in the throes of amateur a second phase of training and having the times of our lives. General goldfein has flown in combat air he has actually went in from into desert storm and had some Great Stories on that and if you have a moment after this event. He went on to several assignments, commanded a squadron in combat as a squadron commander, led to the highs and lows of that. He commanded a component, which is an air force level. And now we leave the United Force Air force in combat today. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend and the chief of staff of the United States air force, general goldfei
General goldfein has flown in combat air he has actually went in from into desert storm and had some Great Stories on that and if you have a moment after this event. He went on to several assignments, commanded a squadron in combat as a squadron commander, led to the highs and lows of that. He commanded a component, which is an air force level. And now he leads the United Force Air force in combat today. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend and the chief of staff of the United States air force, general goldfein. Lets see how long it takes us before were talking like this. Its broken down already. I am going to take a couple of minutes to ask the questions. About 45 minutes and and will open it up to questions in the audience and see where it goes. Ought to be a fun conversation. General goldfein is readiness, the first one on the docket and if one of the biggest conversations on the hill and throughout the United States. In testimony last spring during your confirmation testimon