Concluding his service this Fall And Wake it making way for a new vice chair, the identity of which we dont know. But he began as an Rotc Cadet at Harvard University where he studied engineering. Those of you who know the military know that he is often quite involved not only as deputy to the chairman but perhaps even more importantly, as the chief Uniform Technologist for the department of defense. It is in fact often the case that not only starting with the rotc experience but all the way through when he was Combatant Commander in strategic command, he has often been involved in the high technology aspects of our military as if they were not all hightech. He has particularly been involved in the domain of nuclear forces, satellite capability, communications infrastructure, commandandcontrol. If you read through his bio, you see a lot of assignments in colorado, nebraska, alabama where the u. S. Military has a lot of its space related assets. And also in the pentagon and the middle ea
And studied engineering. The Vice Chairman is often quite involved ott not only as the deputy to the chairman, but in some ways the chief Uniform Technologist thats not an official label or slogan, but it is, in fact, often the case, and general Hytens Background all the way through when he was Combatant Commander at u. S. Strategic command, he has often been involved in the high technology aspects of our military, as if they were involved quite hightech, but hes particularly been involved in the domain of nuclear forces, satellite weapons satellite capability, communications infrastructure, Command And Control. If you read through his bio, you see a lot of assignments in colorado, in nebraska, in alabama where the u. S. Military has a lot of its spacesrelated assets and, of course, at the pentagon and also in the middle east. So i think we will begin today first, im going to give the general a moment just to say greetings to the crowd and amend anything i described about the Vice Chai
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Our focus has been on searchandrescue missions. Saving lives has been the number one priority. To that and, we started moving search assets. The Search And Rescue efforts will continue. And for as long as necessary. I want to pause for a moment and think the many women working hard to make this happen. This has been a partnership between local and first responders, state and federal government. They have put assets into this effort as well. When i say state, it really is about 16 different states including louisiana. They have engaged in search and. As much as i wanted to get out and survey the damage for myself today, but i did not do so. All of our air assets were needed today for searchandrescue, because the affected portion of our state was so large, and many of those areas were not accessible by ground, at least not until late in the day. I hope to be able to get out and about tomorrow. Hurricane ida brought devastating Rain And Wind to louisiana. Almost the entire southeastern pa
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