andy hird is a special assistant to the nora s university provost, he talks about expanding to students so that you may learn what it is like to travel abroad. he has done a tremendous amount of things, part of that has to do with him being stationed here for rotc and his hopes in helping each of you become better leaders and meeting here today is moderator of this panel. his bio is extensive. i could spend a lot of time writing about the things he has done but i will keep it short. he is retired, united states air force, went to the air force academy, university of north carolina. s. eric career includes 3 commands. for those that will be aviators, 6000 flying hours and combat missions in four conflict. please welcome colonel andy hird. [applause] or smack thanks, travis. thank you for attending the north university military writer symposium panel of warfare in the 21st century. future battlegrounds. my name, andy hird. you and i are privileged at the peace and war center
colonel is a special assistance to the north university provost. he integrates university departments to expand expeditionary opportunities to students so that you may learn what is like to travel abroad into lead abroad. he has done a minus other things here at norwich university and part of that is to do with him being rotc but also his hopes and helping each one of you to be better leaders and leaving here to be the moderator of this panel. his bio is extensive i could spend time reading but i will keep it short. as i mentioned he is retired, united states air force and air force academy and the university of north carolina. his military career include three commands and for those of you who will be aviators, 6000 flying hours in combat missions in for complex. let s welcome the kernel. [applause] thank you, travis. thank you for attending norwich university writers symposium, panel of warfare in the 21st century. future battlegrounds. my name is andy heard, you and i, w
privateers are seizing our ships on the high seas, this is an insult and there is an increasing clamor in britain to do something about it. also some of the tension between british and spanish over something that is basically a slave trading contract. it is a 30 year contract that gave britain the right to furnish slaves to spanish colonies. there was specific numbers on that. there was one incident in particular is that later gave this conflict the name, war of jenkins year it was in fact a result of one of the ships, the rebecca, that had been seized by the spanish, the captain was a man named robert jenkins and he had his ear cut off. it was severed. everyone handed it was handed back to him. to him it was symbolic. he gets his ear cut off in 1771 but talks to the government, there s a carton of him talking to the prime minister. there s his wig, they are showing his ear, the prime minister dismissing him. he would rather talk to a lady than have to deal with this issue. s
we have two great authors here who have done great work on biographies, two good books you should pick up, both are available in the vendor area. once again i m from the national parks association, i have several coloraleagues that will here, raise your hand, that s us. if you have any questions about us who we are, what we do stop by and visit us and pick up our brochure. this ends the opening 99th annual conference. i look forward to being back next year for the 100th. thank you all. tl . good friday. today we re going to be discussing two separate conflicts that took place in north america. we talked about the french indiana wars and queen anne s war. today we will talk about two separate conflicts. one is not actually the french indian war. but actually the war between british colonies in the south and spain. and the war that occurs just before the french indiana war. these are words i put up for spelling. often times i will mention these and students like to get the
the corner. i wanted to know what your thought if the sight is not 402nd national park. what are the plans? yes, to answer your question joy, i think that is a really good question. the position of the campaign as it has gone over the last two years has been pullman is well positioned to be 402nd national park sight. er the status of the campaign, senator who is assistant in the u.s. this senate and senator in the minority has co-sponsored legislation to have this if become a national park. that was first step. congressional route is one way to go if it doesn t work initially you have the second option, that is using president antiquities act created in early 1900s was designed to help preserve the country, the president can step in and designate federally owned property as a national monument and direct national agencies, such as the national park service to manage that sight. where we are in that process is in regular communication with d.c., with our partners in formulat