books earning him awards including the lincoln, the roosevelt and the dudley knox medal for lifetime achievement. his most recent books are world war ii at sea a global history, operation neptune and battle headway. let s give a warm welcome to a simon. thank you let me say i m glad you introduced the staff and that s great but i m so impressed was he and his team with the way they put on this wonderful symposium. so great to be back in sealed new friends in this venue and particular so i m grateful for that. i m also very impressed by the way with all the people that have stood at this podium before me and the way they have taken on questions not just of what happened but questions have how do we know what happened and the most important question of all and the one i often get org. for my students when i was teaching at the naval academy and that is this one, so what? i mean there s the stuff that happened but what does that mean and i really want to congratulate again the
think women in the navy are still in the waves. they are not. the navy reflects the nation at large. 20 percent identify as black , a slightly larger percentage than the country as a whole. latinos make up 16 percent. 18 percent of women and the laws that previously barred them from combat of come down as well. the last barrier in the navy was breached in 2011 when two women reported on board one of the navy s nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines. you may have seen in the news to army officers who were women accepted and successfully passed ranger training. so far know female seals, but i am sure it is only a matter of time, and not long. finally, gays and lesbians now openly serve in the army and navy. the uniform code of military justice made homosexuality a crime punishable of physical punishment as well as dishonorable discharge, but no more and from my view no one of the 30 seems to care. this up for the general patriotic and alec forward to your questions. than
The ruling is another victory for conservative groups waging legal ware against corporate diversity programs at dozens of companies and government institutions.
A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners on Monday, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail