Good evening, im bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife Lisa Muscatine and on behalf of everybody at p and p welcome 2 pm to p. M. At the wharf, thank you for coming and for bringing this evening of storm warnings and wind and rain. Evenings are getting to be all too frequent here in washington dc. Last august john chapman, air force combat controller was posthumously awarded the medal of honor or his heroic actions atop a snowcapped mountain in afghanistan in early 2002. Afew months after us forces began fighting in the country. Chapman was the first airman to receive the medal of honor is the vietnam war. He then attached to a Navy Seal Team assigned to establish a mountaintop observation post in connection with a major us to against al qaeda and Taliban Forces in the shower valley in eastern afghanistan. Approaching the site, the helicopter carrying the special Operations Unit came under heavy fire and one of the team members was thrown from the aircraft. R
Stopped their firing. Thanks, everybody. Defense secretary ashton announced that general David Goldstein has been nominated to be the next air force chief of staff. He is currently the vice chief. Also at the announcement was air force secretary deborah lee james. This is about 15 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. I am very honored to bring to warrior, one ested of the most proven strategic joint force. Ss our and that is general dave goldstein. I want to extend my deepest congratulations to dave on his nomination by president obama as our next air force chief of staff. Colonel goldstein wrote in his ook sharing success earning failure quote, the single most important element of success in war is leadership and it was because of general goldsteins ry ong and also visiona leadership over a demanding uccession of roles, including commander of u. S. Air forces central command, director of the joint staff and most recently vice chief of staff of the airport i recommended general goldstein
By the determined ground force commander, he stopped their firing. Thanks, everybody. David goldstein is currently the vice chief of staff. Hes also company by debra lee james. This is about 50 minutes. I am very honored to bring to this room a tested warrior, the most proven strategic thinkers across the force and that is general they goldstein. I want to extend my deepest congratulations to date on his nomination by president obama as the next chief of staff. Goldstein wrote in his book sharing success and earning failure, quote, the most important part of success is leadership. It was because of his leadership over a demanding succession of roles, including commander of the single most important element of success in war is leadership and it was because of general goldsteins ry ong and also visiona leadership over a demanding uccession of roles, including commander of u. S. Air forces central command, director of the joint staff and most recently vice chief of staff of the airport i
Build it into this high school that is now commonly ranked as one of the 25 best public high schools United States and the students are here as part of a constitutional competition that they have been participating in and i am really happy to have them here. This is a good hearing for them to be at. I have the opportunity last week asking essence of this hogan and mr. Paul mary with respect to the northern triangle and i will focus my questions to the secretary. Yesterday, i had a meeting with senators baldwin and coons with inspirational city councilwoman and in in stable. She founded the Istanbul Pride parade in 20 2003 and there were 30 marchers. By 2014, there were over 80,000 marchers and last year, the turkish government use Water Cannons to shut the march down and disperse everyone after it had grown so large. She was visiting us to talk about ways in which the United States could be helpful and when senator coons asked her how we could help human rights in turkey. This was her
Hello, u. S. Secretary of state john kerry has expressed his gratitude to iran for releasing tern american sailors captured and held overnight. They freed the sailors after determines they entered iranian waters by mistake. It took place in waters in this the gulf which is home to an Iranian Naval vessels. The u. S. Vessels were headed for bahrain. The u. S. Navy said it would investigate, bringing to an end an incident that rattled nerves senior iran yoon military officer explained the reasoning behind the release of the u. S. Sailors. Translator our final finding was that it has not been a hostile crossover meant for espionage or the like. They reached the area dued to a malfunction of their navigation systems. Lets go live to washington, d. C. , and al jazeeras rosiland jordan. We just cently pictures of the time when those sailors were held by the iranians. This was potentially a rather serious incident which appears to have been resolved rather quickly. Thats right. Especially whe