Speaking at Westminster College in his speeches one hour. As the proud army guy is gratitude introduce our general perkins. And to be irresponsible every u. S. Are me soldier and as a graduate of the u. S. Military academy of west point general perkins has sold numerous leadership positions. Special assistant to speaker of the house, Battalion Commander leading over 1,000 personnel in macedonia, Brigade Commander leading over 3,000 over the invasion of iraq 2003, executive assistant to the vicechairman of the joint chief of staff meeting over 10,000 personnel with the transition of forces in 2010 from iraq. From 11 through 2014 general perkins commanded u. S. Army education at fort leavenworth. Trade development and support developing u. S. Army doctrine all of which that provides those elements to the u. S. Army and to hold a masters degree in with the strategic studies and the Naval War College please join me to give a round of applause and a warm welcome to general perkins. [applaus
Provide. Cases the overall u. S. G. Counterterrorism effort may that,. Some of a number of things to empower women and youth who are inticularly vulnerable communities that are at risk to extremism. Arrayl go towards a whole of programming on the multilateral side. Support the globe counterterrorism forum, which is a gathering of countries designed to address terrorism issues, and to put out best practices so that theyre all following a design. Again to combat terrorist flow all the other things i just spoke of. Thank you. You off because i want these gentlemen over here to ask questions. The Ranking Member, five minutes. A it was pointed out to me by Committee Staff that we did get these numbers from c. R. S. , i want to thank the u. N. Ambassador for setting the straight. Does your department or bureau in the state department have as fulltime scholars . Islamic we dont have would class it quite that way. What we do is is programming that we support that brings in those voices and we
Order. Recognize other member seeking recognition for one minute each. We will hear from our witnesses and we thank them for their patience and understanding. That goes for the audience as well. We have had 16 votes. We thank you for the time. The witnesses prepared statements will be made a part of the record. Members have five days to insert statements and questions for the record subject to the length in the rules. Before we begin, i would like to give my sincere condolences to the family and friends of the five american troops who were killed in afghanistan just yesterday recently. No words can adequately express the debt of gratitude that we owe to those brave troops and our thoughts and prayers are certainly with them and their families at this troubling time. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes. Lessons learned from the u. S. Stabilization of the reconstruction operation in iraq. The purpose of that hearing was to examine the final report to get a better understanding
We are honored to have you here today. I am chairman of the in the league club authors group. And to have all of you here today. We have a couple tables from our American Legion post here. So Everybody Knows who you are. And the American Legion post. So whether it was books or dvds or cds or even ipods, batteries, some of the things that theyd let us know that they needed, and we collected a few boxes and sent them to the troops. Each year its gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, and i think last year we sent over 300 boxes to the troops, and we collected a lot of money which, of course, if you come to the event and you havent brought a set of batteries, you dont need to feel bad because we have, like, 25 bags, 50 bags, 100 bags, 40,000 bags if you want to bring that. And well fill them full of things that they need. So thats on november 8th starting at 6 00, and youll see here who our speakers are, and they are equally spectacular. So i hope youll come and bring whatever you can. Brin
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