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Seminars such as this and the opportunity to network with our colleagues and each other on search and rescue and Public Safety. Its just a great addition to the already exciting opportunity to see the navy and our armed forces at work. Some of you may be wondering exactly why am i here, whats a ranger doing up here during fleet week. Ill try to explain that a little bit. This is our 40th anniversary of having a National Park in San Francisco. So, those strikev lands at the golden gate hills right behind that helicopter there are now part of the golden gate National Parks. And that happened 40 years ago when the army decided that those lands were no longer necessary for National Defense. So, that strategic entranc ....
Greatest Civil Engineering set of blunders that our country has made in our countrys history. And what we all learn from Hurricane Katrina is what happens when we dont have a community that is prepared and a set of relationships that is ready to be hit by the big one. Which leads me to the third reason why i wake up at night. The neighborhoods that i represent in the northeast not only represent the oldest neighborhoods in our city, but some of the most vulnerable. We have some of the poorest residents. Half of my district are recent immigrants who are mono lingual. I have hundreds of constituents who live in buildings that contain them where they live three, four, five people in a room that might be no larger than 10 by 15 feet, in buildings that are absolutely prone to earthquake, fire, and the next major disaster. And, so, i was asked to just mention if i had three t ....
Oclock along with general charlie. The previous day general hughes had briefed us that the Chinese Military were to begin extensive military maneuvers in the taiwan strait. This morning we were stunned to learn that they had fired two missiles that landed just 10 miles off the coast of taiwan. The taiwanese had a president ial election underway, and the chinese were using a not too subtle way of explaining to them what they wanted the outcome of that election to be. Thises was an unacceptable form of military coercion and both the general and i agreed that a strong response was needed by the United States, something more than a diplomatic letter of protest. After some discussion we agreed to send two Carrier Battle Groups to taiwan. Within an hour the president had approved our recommendation and before the day wa ....
Preventive defense project. Please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. applause what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of americas millery power, the uss macon island. What a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the First Responders of the San Francisco bay area. Fleet week for many years in San Francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the First Responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of San Francisco. This amazing transformation in the last few years was due ....