Other crew shipping activities, i know what the price per passages if i want to book affair of the crystal serenity, for what . And if im in the crew shipping industry this is a business, so you might want to get in on this business and i fully anticipate that we will see more and more crew shipping into this a very pristine environment coming up in the future as well. So we are not done there. We also looked at what is happening in the cyber domain and i know all of you follow cyber. I look primarily through the Maritime Transportation lens, i was out at long beach earlier this year and it looks like something out of star wars, even though that is where george lucas got that design for those robots, but there are these Autonomous Vehicles moving containers across the yard and there on mans. In fact, they are not even, theyre using natural gas so theres no carbon, very little carbon footprint. But they put they put transponders down beneath the tarmac of this entire tainer terminal and
Saying we need a bigger coast guard, how do you feel about the resource picture now that the fy 17 budget request is in . You mention several of the new major investment strings underway. The growth of the structure and the readiness picture. What most challenges you at this point and executing all of that . I am immensely pleased with our acquisition budget. On the other side we have our operations in maine is, what our operations and maintenance, would cost to do operations and people from under that funding portfolio as well. Were not keeping pace. In fact were fact were not even keeping pace with budget control funding levels. Where funded below that level to sustainer operation so its great that were modernizing, the sustaining piece is still a bit of a challenge for me. Thats work that i need to do in demonstrating how critical that is because lets face it, ive been to enough commissioning ceremonies now more than i have decommissioning ceremonies, thats a good thing, more births
The new York Military affairs symposium. Welcome, colonel daddis. Thank you for the kind of introduction and bob for the invitation, im not only happy to be here given new york traffic, im also lucky to be here, as i watch the clock tick away, not only in the palisades as we were driving down from west point, but also in the cab trying to get us from the hotel to here. It was a close return thing as some would say. What i would do this evening would be to really start with something that happened last week in the white house and there was an uproar as you might have recalled last week at the white house, it was not related to the president s tan suit, which got quite a number of remarks as we saw, but more significantly for my conversation this evening with you, was really revolved afternoon one word, and that word was strategy, and the president igniting criticism by saying that we dont yet have a strategy against isis targets in syria, causing uproars, certainly among the president s
The markets, tensions growing across the globe this morning so why are stocks set to open higher . Not a lot of good news for mcdonalds, and why asia is troubling for the fast food maker, and gap is not struggling after same store sales. Whats leading the Company Higher . Cbs making shows for netflix behind the ceos big plans for the streaming service. Breaking news from Michelle Carusocabrera back at hq. Busy morning, michelle. We want to update what the president said last night, two u. S. Navy f18s dropped two 500 bombs on isis enemy forces this morning. No word on casualties, fighter jets flew off the uss george w. Bush Aircraft Carrier in the persian gulf telling nbc news, two navy f18 drops two 500 bombs and in addition, the pentagon tweeted out details as well saying the u. S. Military aircraft conducted a strike on isis artillery used against Kurdish Forces defending u. S. Personnel. As the president warned last night, that arab strikes occurred this morning trying to protect u
The senate. I congratulate him on his comparable career in the i wish him the very best. Senate incomparable career in the senate. I wish him the very best. I would like to say two other words here. I want to make sure there is a separate place in the record for what i am going to say. I ask consent for that to be the case. Without objection. It is said that you dont chose your family and that is true. We are born into our family and we have no way to determine the family we are born into. Jay rockfeller chose to make the people of this area his community. How did that happen . Born in new york to one of the most famous people like this end up in West Virginia. I was an undergradate student at harvard and he decided he didnt like things they were doing so he left and dropped out of school. He went to japan and spent three years there. He became an interpreter and knows the japanese language well and loves the japanese people today. He started out at harvard and came back and was there