Out of an abundance of caution during the covid19 pandemic, there is no in person audience today and certain ceremonial elements have been prerecorded. Please welcome the official party to the stage the secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b mccarthy. Chief of staff of the army, general james c mcconville. Sergeant major of the army, michael a grinstead. Director of the National Museum of the United States army, ms. Tammy call. Accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c miller. And chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. Millie. Now presenting the colors is the third United States infantry regiment the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. The National Anthem will be performed by Sergeant First Class jesse meeks from the United States army band, pershings own. Present. O say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through t
Please welcome the official party to the stage the secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b mccarthy. Chief of staff of the army, general james c. Mcconville. Sergeant major of the army, michael a. Grinstead. Director of the National Museum of the United States army, ms. Tammy call. Accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c. Miller. And chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. Millie. Now presenting the colors is the third United States infantry regiment, the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. The National Anthem will be performed by jesse meeks from the United States army band, pershings own. Present arms o say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight , oh the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our
Acting deputy Homeland Security secretary Ken Cuccinelli and the head of the National Counterterrorism center. The fbi director said at the hearing that the fbi has not seen widespread voter fraud. Wisconsin senator ron johnson chaired this two hour, 40 minute hearing. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism center, and kenneth cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary. This is our annual threat hearing. When i take a look at all of the threats that this committee has considered and all of the threats facing this nation, i think its pretty interesting, you know, how many hearings weve held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for unanimous consent to have my written Opening Statement be entered in the recor record. If you consider t
Indopacific region at the heritage foundation. His talk focused on the future direction of the marines and the technology in their future missions. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [ applause ] were sitting next to General Mills and were infantry guys so were not pal, but you look at the guy who introduced me and i dont know down in pensacola, they decide what aircraft theyll fly, but that guy will not fit into the cockpit and he must fly big helicopters. General mills is one of my mentors for life so its sort of intimidating to be up here in front of him. I if i could follow your foot steps and do half as good as you d i would be really happy, sir. Good to be here this morning. Dr. Holmes, thank you for allowing me to be here this morning, as well. It is a privilege just to be asked. In that kind introduction, thank you for also keeping it short, sir. Bullet. I have to think of how you got that call assignment, bullet and theres probably a story there. Dakota, very quickly, has been mo
Introducing, in pensacola, deciding what aircraft theyre going to fly, but he was not fit cockpit, sojet he might fly helicopters. General mills is one of my istors for life, so it intimidating to be up here before him. If i follow your footsteps and do half as good as you, i would be really be happy. Its good to be here. Dr. Holmes, thank you for allowing me too be here as well. It is a privilege just to be asked. Thank you for keeping it short. I have to think how you got that call sign bullet. Theres probably a story behind there. Real quickly, dakota has been more helpful to me over the years than you all will understand. But he is a lot like me in that he is a critical thinker, and thats how i was trained to think, every path you go down questioning that and for continuing to do that please do not go down that at all. I thought this morning i would offer two parts to this. First, i think i owe you some perspectives on the Planning Guidance that we published the summer. I will just