Discussing his book top gun an american story, Aerial Combat and how his book inspired the 1986 movie to the gun. Good evening. Im Lauren Rosenberg with smithsonian associates. Welcome to tonights program. To our members, im so glad youre here. Its your support that makes events like this possible. And if youre joining us for the first time, an equally warm welcome and open invitation to explore the wide range of programs we offer at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy Fighter Weapons program. We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pederson. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary Top Gun Program at naval station miramar in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the
Book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. And dissertation of culture and technology in the u. S. Air force 1964 to 1991. Ladiies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Michael hankins. All right. I will try to not keep you from the reception and ill be quick. I did want to start off by talking about something that happened about a year ago last june in 2017. There was an air force f15 flying over syria. This is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture, but stay with me. An f15 is flying over syria and shoots down an iranian drone, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or uav. About two weeks, not quite two weeks later a second almost identical event happened, another f15 shot down another iranian drone, and i dont know about you, but my twitter exploded. People started talking online, blogs are being written, people are arguing. And what theyre arguing about is does shooting down th
I am going to take the opportunity to introduce to you the founder and president of the wealth and values initiative. [applause] jeremiah good morning, everybody. I want to start off by thanking the American Veteran center for this spectacular series of events, and for their Wonderful Service to our country. I also am so impressed with the quality of the young people here today. These young, high potential military leaders inspire confidence in me as a father of four with three grandkids in terms of the future of my kids and grandkids in this country. I also am very appreciative of a special group of the initiative that are here today. Having come from across the country. You have no doubt seen the formal side of peter cuneo in his bio in your program. As a leading turnaround expert, if you go to forbes. Com, they say he is top 10 up there was steve jobs and others. His most notable turnaround was marvel entertainment, which he took out of bankruptcy and sold to disney nine years later
Look at women and womens role in u. S. Agriculture. The title for the lecture today, on invisible woman, comes from a 1983 book, so ancient in your mind, by carolyn sachs. Sachs book was groundbreaking. She was one of the first to examine the contributions of women to u. S. Agriculture, and it was this book that helped launch work by sociologists and other social scientists and rural historians and so forth, to look at the contributions of women who had largely been invisible up to this time. This is a nod to that groundbreaking book. One of the Big Questions we have been asking in this class and posing since the first day we met is, why should we study women in agriculture . Why not just study agriculture . Why should we take a gender lens and think about the different roles . Why . Thats one of the Big Questions, right . What we have been arguing, what i have been arguing and what other scholars argue, is that why we want to study women in agriculture specifically, and why we want to
Jeremiah good morning, everybody. I want to start off by thanking the American Veteran center for this spectacular series of events, and for their Wonderful Service to our country. I also am so impressed with the quality of the young people here today. These young, high potential military leaders inspire confidence in me as a father of four with three grandkids in terms of the future of my kids and grandkids in this country. I also am very appreciative of a special group of the initiative that are here today. Having come from across the country. You have no doubt seen the formal side of peter cuneo in his bio in your program. As a leading turnaround expert, if you go to forbes. Com, they say he is top 10 up there was steve jobs and others. His most notable turnaround was marvel entertainment, which he took out of bankruptcy and sold to disney nine years later for 4. 5 billion. Anybody here a fan of marvel . Every hand. I want to share briefly little more on the personal side, having ha