John the program is entitled the origins of the militaryindustrial complex and features dr. Daniel ellis, who is this years staff fellow, a prestigious position. He has been using items to investigate the origins of the militaryindustrial complex through wartime and immediate postwar, meaning postworld war ii, evolution between Scientific Research, industry and National Defense. Dan has advised congress on defense issues. I was a colleague of his at crs for several years. Dan did things in connection with things i knew, a whole range of things, defense production act, appropriations, military construction, and he does many more things at crs. He holds a phd in Political Science from George Washington university. And at crs, as many of you know, he is the author of many reports on defense, trade and security. , this project is the latest example of the work undertaken by staff fellows showcasing their knowledge and passion of their areas of expertise. This is funded by a gift left by th
From 1917 to 1974. It features an interview with wwi and wwii veteran captain joy hancock. Who is pictured here. The second half of the film explores how contributions by navy women increased beginning in the mid1960s. As restrictions were removed, opportunities opened up in a variety of fields. music music music music music it was a dramatic first, the first time in navy history women wear assigned to the crew of a ship. In 1972, at Hunters Point naval shipyard, the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The navys first woman admiral gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new, unusual type of ship with a mission to assist the efforts to improve morale and flexibility by home boarding combat and ships overseas. It will provide services to deploy dependence wherever the fleet is assigned. In addition to this forward step, the sanctuary has also been accepted as the ship to be dissipated in the pilot program, which will evaluate the utilization of women for
It was a dramatic first, the first time in navy history women wear assigned it the crew of a ship. In 1972, at Hunters Point naval shipyard, in california, the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The navys first woman admiral gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new, unusual type of ship with a new mission to assist the efforts to improve morale and flexibility by home boarding compact and ships overseas. It will provide services to deploy dependence wherever the fleet is assigned. In addition to this forward step, the sanctuary has also been accepted as the ship to be dissipated in the pilot program, which will evaluate the utilization of women for ship or duty. It will be home for about 80 women, half in the crew and half at the hospital. With these innovations, you can see the sanctuary is truly unique in many respects. The sanctuary is an experiment to see how well women and men can Work Together at sea. It is also a symbol of the navys changing
Naval battle in history and was a decisive victory for the United States and their allies. Up next, six panelists participate in the 75th befallingy discussion the panel, a retired admiral discusses the legacy of the battle. All, i would like to put in a little plug for a marvelous new book written by our first speaker or edited, tom cutler has edited this retrospective published by the Naval Institute. Recently it was put out and in fact filled with interesting new and old assessments of the battle, including some japanese testimony. Also a number of the panelists have written for this as well. I wanted to at least give that a plug. Second, what i wanted to do was this,ould not resist namely for a couple of reasons. Thanks to wikipedia i discovered the fact that it has become the basic Foundation Source to go , which then says you cannot cite it. I did have one person who used it for his entire paper, which is another story. But i discovered some different points. If you search this b
At that time was settled by the spaniards. They had two different establishments at the time. Places populated by the military, and you had the missions that where established by the franciscan priests. They were up and down the california from the san diego to all the way up to San Francisco at the time. You had no the city type of establishment. During that time, you had a lot of native americans running throughout california. It was the attempt of the spaniards to settle and originalize the settlers, they native americans that were established here. At this time, you had intrusions from the french, british, and also russian interests coming into the pacific coast. The spaniards were looking at a way of settling and controlling the region that we know of california at the time. The difficulty was with sea travel, going up the coast was against the tradewinds from mexico. The thought was if they could establish a trail method, that would help solidify their hold on california. 1775, j