there were no commissioned officers in theo navy of color. there were people like robert smalls and others who were eventually taken in either navy reserve and others. in terms of the army itself, the accepted figures of commissioned officers in relation to that. a lot of them stayed in the army rather than stayed in the navy. plus you always had the merchant marine, which even more than the navy, was integrated and there were officers of color s in ter of that.ar plus you always have the fourth factor s which stanton gave in . people of color were state militias which that had to be overturned in addition to having recruitment in the united states. i think someone asked about numbers and the draft.k the draft was done for two reasons. it was done to encourage enlistme enlistment, but black troops started to count toward state quotas. so that was anotherst inducemen for free man of color, particularly in the north, to enlist after 1863. so there were a lot of different factors going on, too, so i thought i would clarify that. >> the ohio gove

hicks: a navy question. secretary esper: it is blended services appear. >> an article that came out this month, and admiral claims there were failures that did not -- ms. hicks: sounds like this is going long. go to the question. he said this new series of exercises that were instituted two years ago and seemed to be the first set of realistic exercises -- if we presented an accurate, which is to say, a heart problem, there's a high probability we are going to fail -- these three problems revealed the navy units are not able to constantly execute high-and were fighting -- more fighting application. when it is described that the navy training is taking off,is it true the navy's pre-deployment training consists scenarios? ms. hicks:ms. hicks: and we will take one from over here. senator warner, former secretary of the navy? justor warner: i would prefer petty officer third class john warner. first, having had the privilege of observing the department of defense and those who occupy your offices over many years

the navy has not had urgency about this. we are in the conundrum we are in right now because of a lafk urgency. i have to tell you, mr. secretary, since you have come on board i haven't seen the navy pick up the urgency on this program. in fact, i see the opposite. i think you are slowing down. in fact, some people from the navy have been in the shipyard in my hometown and said they want to know what happens if it slides further from fiscal year '20. i think the urgency is missing there. both of these shipyards that are making lcss now are telling us if we go to one combat ship they will have a dramatic erosion of the industrial base. they will lay off thousands of shipyard workers and we look at the prospect of losing one or both of those two shipyards, shrinking the number of shipyards from seven to five. that's the industrial base. admiral nagley, the lcs program executive officer, i know you renamed that program but he was at the time when he said this, has testified the optimal sustaining rate for both shipyards is a to

and he felt that the navy had fallen down. here we had all this industrial might and we didn't have a ship down in hampton roads. it was on the way but it hasn't been there. so he, in his typical way, took things into his own hands. he decided that it was necessary to close the potomac river, which hay had just just with great difficulty reopened to commerce. went down to the navy yard, got on with a ship, went out, dumped rocks to try to close down the potomac and strengthen the guards. he also took matters into his own hands, sent a telegram to cornelius vanderbilt in new york city and said, name your price to destroy the merrimacmerrimac. he and vanderbilt worked together on a ship that became the vanderbilt. it was aimed at ramming and destroying. again, wells was annoyed because here's the army building a warship. so the ultimate, far better response was the monitor, but stan on the instantly started doing things. he wasn't just going to continue welles to sort of bumble incompetently. >> now, bringing up gideon welles, o

outstanding product to the navy. my only add one of the things we are in the process of aligning a national defense strategy that has been outlined to bring back because sequester did destroy this risk management portfolio review. there are some fascinating things coming out of the labs and to walk around in the summer and in the courtyard and in the pentagon i look at what navy research has done. that we have to match. >> i am from the u.s. naval institute. >> this is an army question. [laughter] but retirement and how this fits into recruitment several years ago you brought it up and now you are living with it. so how does that factor into everyone's ability to recruit and retain talent? >> that is a great question if you don't know my first year on the defense business board michael baer world gas walked me up to the secretary's office and said here he is he said this is the guy that will do the three projects he said okay. modernizing military retirement, defense, theory system and defense education. can you refo

the navy had no love for john and he had no love for the navy. that is a story for another day though. he agreed to look at the plans. he looked them, proclaimed them to be good. the ship would float. then he asked if bushnell would get something of his spirit he pulled a dusty box off a shelf, and in it, the plans for what would become the uss monitor. bushnell was intrigued. he knew this was the future of naval warfare. but he had to get erickson through the ironclad port area so he asked if he could take it back with him and eventually made his way to the house where the board and president lincoln were waiting. you heard what lincoln said. all i have to say is what the girl said when she slipped her foot into the stocking. it strikes me there is something in it. so he had to trick him into ironclad grouphe loved him. through sheer force of will, he pushes the idea through. the monitor would be built, and she was. her tour at place -- plates rolled in baltimore, maryland. she was built all over the north. the ironworks were owned by one of the

it will not just be the navy. we went after root causes about what is going to make corrections for the actual trajectory at were the navy marine corps is going. it hits us from a how we do business to how we recruit to how we employ and deploy. i will close in saying that congress is going to give us quite a healthy basket here if we get the budget that is being discussed. that dovetails into the audit. if i am congress, i will ask for abc. i will ask with the money went and worded it go to? it will be the primary tool for us to respond. i will be underway way in a short period time. a very interesting reaction in both services that the marine corps has been at for a while. changing the conversation on this being a task to this being a learning experience. the audit is uncovering the way we do business, and when that happens and you start shining lights on logistical distribution, investments and weapons systems, you all of a sudden get clarity as to where your dollars are being censored are these worth the dolla

the navy just started. we're changing the conversation from this being a task to this being a learning experience. what the audit is doing is uncovering the way we do business. when that happens and you start shining lights on logistical distribution, investments in weapons systems, you'll get clarity as to where your dollars are being spent. then you get to put the metrics as to are these worth the dollars being expendituresed. it really is a good step -- expended. it really is a good step forward. in closing, the biggest mention i'm transmitting along the services along the lines of this is urgency. we have to get after this yesterday. and it's a drum that we continue to beat loudly and clearly. it's being received. i will tell you that after 16 years of doing more with less and now we're in a growth phase, those are new muscles. we're going to be leaning forward. and it's going to take us a little while. i'll be frank with you. we can't expect this to happen overnight. congress is giving us some relief i

it's truly delivered some outstanding product to the navy. my only added there would be one of the things we in the process have been doing it is aligning at the national defense strategy initiatives that have been outlined in the rollout. and to really bring back, because i think that the sequestered did destroy this to a large extent, bring back risk management portfolio review. there's some fascinating things coming out of the labs and i have to admit when you walk around in the summer when they have them all out with their goods in the courtyard of the pentagon i look at what the navy research has done and i'm saying that's fantastic where washa the poll. that we have to match. >> great okay. let's see, i've got oneat right here. >> from the naval institute you can all answer but this one is for secretary spencer not specifically but about retirement and how that fits into the recruitment retaining. several years ago you were on the committee that fought it up and now you are living with it and i'm just kind of curious how does that facto

but they were an established part of the navy as the civil war started and the black role in the navy was used as an argument as to why blacks should be allowed to become soldiers. during the war they do become soldiers, but it is not surprising, because of the way it started in the youtset of th war, but as to piece of after the war why the navy is a lilly white institution by the time of theodore roosevelt, i don't know. >> well, ki address that. there was a quota the before the war in relation to the navy and it is not 11%, but 4%, and there were no commissioned officers in the navy of color. there were people like robert smalls and others who were eventually taken in the naval reserve or others, but i don't believe that the percentages are right on that, and in terms of the army, itself, you know, the accepted figures of 186,000 plus the commissioned officers and a lot of them stayed in the army rather than stayed in the navy, and also, you had the merchant marine which is more than the navy was integrated. there were officerses of color in terms of relation to that so you had thr

navy. >>host: why women? >> guest: the men were unavailable at was a national emergency we availed ourselves of native american communication linguist and we did the same for women we needed educated people with math and language that can learn very quickly i literally found memo in the national archives when they were recruiting codebreakers typed up new source, women's colleges men are unavailable let's see what the women can do. >>host: from your book the committee on naval affairs argued admitting women into the navy would break up homes and go backward in civilization. >> there was a nervous controversy getting women into the military during world war ii because those codebreakers were women accepted for volunteer emergency service their first gig ever to include in the u.s. military there was son in world war i but this is a larger number with a lot of resistant from the older admirals they didn't want them the navy blue but gray or tan but the women who were pushing for inclusion understood even unifor

navy?hey a part of the >> guest: yes. i heard the stories that would later become headquarters on the nebraska avenue they were told if they ever did anything they would be shot. >> guest: exactly. they did say we were going to be captured, but we took our oath seriously they got in some debates about the conventions and other agencies upon its okay to weeks of classified material. it's much like other stuff was. i think it is a good idea. in the 60s and 70s a lot of the material was still completely classified and rightly soco because some of our enemies in the 60s and 70s were using the same systems because they didn't know any better and that was fine with us. >> host: is some of the still classified? >> guest: yes i worked hard to get as much material declassified as i could. a greatrs deal of this material should be declassified. during wartime is something that you don't want to have happening. they tookk that seriously and i not only had to persuade them that they wouldn't be put in prison if they talked to me but

itself as an attractive place to train the head of the navy's recruitment center wants to turn young people into new sailors but it's up to up we were here for the pick on the field people from five of the come from. the humvee we have a big problem. getting young people into the navy particularly into the technical areas such as electronics annoyed to see we have to compete with civilian businesses want to get people excited about what we do in the navy. you know because. since compulsory military service was abolished the armed forces have had to take care of recruitment on their own the navy has to whet applicants appetite. here they can make the whole experience more tangible a day at sea the excursions on minesweepers are popular and booked out months in advance this goal is to excite young people about a career at sea the task specific the navy once engineers and mine clearance divers it's a working environment that isn't for everyone. says it's a job but starting out in the german armed forces it's not everyone's thing and not everyone knows that you can be a dog in the navy c

the navy pilots ran low on gas. air force sky raider pilot and his wingmen took over the search. >> him and his wingmen started their zigzagging pattern looking for signs or parachutes or flares. that's when his plane was hit. and there was no other sign of my dad or no radio or parachute or anything. >> i answered the door when three air force officers were at the door. and they came in and my mom saw them and she said, carol, take jim out in the backyard and push him on the swing. and i was back there pushing him, and i knew something was wrong. >> she was told not to talk about it because the north vietnamese government would use any information like that and use it for propaganda. >> i pretty much cried myself to sleep every night of my life. when i was in grade school and high school, just thinking he was being tortured. >> i assumed he was captive and in a prison camp somewhere. >> when "war stories" returns, we'll take you inside one of the war's greatest deceptions, operation bolo is coming up.

they why did the navy completely why did the navy completely reverse itself after the war? >> that is a good question. [laughter] >> i'm not sure i have an answer for that. >> i have a piece of an answer, which is blacks had been serving in the navy, i don't know starting win, but they were an of the navy ast the civil war started, and the black role in the navy was used as an argument as to why black should be allowed to become soldiers. they do become soldiers during the war, but it is not surprising in the way that the percentages were lower in the army than in the navy, because in the way the navy started a step ahead of the army at the outset of the civil war, but after the war, i don't know the answer as to why the navy becomes sort of a lily white institution by the time of theodore roosevelt. actually i can address that. there was a quote of before the war. it was 4%. no commissioned officers of navy in the color. there were people like robert smalls and others who were taken in. so i don't think the percentage was exactly right on that. fromrms of the army itself t

navy. >>host: why women? >> guest: the men were unavailable at was a national emergency we availed ourselves of native american communication linguist and we did the same for women we needed educated people with math and language that can learn very quickly i literally found memo in the national archives when they were recruiting codebreakers typed up new source, women's colleges men are unavailable let's see what the women can do. >>host: from your book the committee on naval affairs argued admitting women into the navy would break up homes and go backward in civilization. >> there was a nervous controversy getting women into the military during world war ii because those codebreakers were women accepted for volunteer emergency service their first gig ever to include in the u.s. military there was son in world war i but this is a larger number with a lot of resistant from the older admirals they didn't want them the navy blue but gray or tan but the women who were pushing for inclusion understood even unifor

i sawart of the navy, what was going on and i heard stories from the guys who came back. i was stationed in oakland, california, and took care of the casualties and heard their stories. i did not hear them in quite the same detail that pop has related because at that time, i think the war was to freshen they did not want to talk explicitly about what they had seen. but i heard their nightmares and the middle of the night. i heard them yelling and screaming and yelling out to their buddies. i saw some of the guys who had open wounds having their arms and legs held up by butcher-like contraptions with infection coming out. as i said, i heard them in the middle of the night. i heard some of the stories that way. i went in as a healer and i felt at one point, it was after about a year in the military, that i had become a part of the united states military and i had helped perpetuate the war in vietnam. i just thought i had to live with myself and speak out against the war. i had heard about the united states dropping flyers on vietnam, on the vietnamese urging them to go to p

property and austin hall which was on a navy site. so working with them to improve the security of vacant structures. we have been doing a number of traffic calming improvements on avenue h in anticipation of the upcoming closure of avenue to palms which increases the traffic volume on avenue h. also last friday life running academy had a groundbreaking event for their planned dorm housing adjacent to the school. these are temporary facility that is -- will be in operation until such time as life learning academy relocates to a new location within the development as part of the development plans for the island. recycle for change has placed a bin at the island cove market -- or will be placing a bin at the island cove market, to accept clothing donations and other things -- shoes and clothing to divert those from landfills if they can be repurposed and reused. last february the 24th and 25th we had another successful treasure island fest on the island. they implemented a new traffic management plan which worked well although the atten

he joined the navy. he was in every respect the outstanding young man just as he has been a distinguished public servant throughout his life. he's been widely respected here by his colleagues, elected to be chairman of the republican conference. and most recently he's been chairman of the appropriations committee, which is as important as any position in this body. in an era where not everybody seems to think it's important to act like a gentleman, thad cochran is a gentleman. and we respect that and the example that he has set. so he's been a pioneer for the republican party. he's been a good example for young people and for all of us really in terms of what we should expect and try to emulate in public life. and to me, he's been a great friend. so my wife honey and i would like to say to him and to kay, his wife, that we respect him. we look forward to the next chapter in his life. and we honor his service to this country. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi.

the conflict has gone through many ups and downs but things escalated recently when the turkish navy blocked access to an italian drill ship in february the vessel was part of efforts to explore recently discovered gas fields on the southeastern tip of the island the heads of the e.u. backed the greek cypriot leader nikos anastasio address the european commission's president jiang close junkers said he was strictly against the behavior of turkey's turkish president though on issued a warning to cyprus and foreign companies though not to infringe on what he calls turkey's sovereignty where do things go from here and is diplomacy the only way forward i'm sam is a than at the presidential palace in the casea this week the president of the others tells me he's ready to jump out of a television interview and begin peace talks if the turkish cypriot leader calls him he also confirms u.s. energy giant eggs and mobile is on track to start exploration in the eastern mediterranean sea and he says he's confident the u.s. knows how to protect its interest because alastair cialis president of the

is a superpower has a very big navy part of that now people are interested in many rewards. and military interventions by anybody but it's up to the united states to protect their own interests but have you asked them at all i mean it would cross my mind if i was in your position you have a company from a superpower you have a superpower navy sure that we have done whatever it is necessary to be done in order to succeed to the energy program of the republic i don't to put you in a hard position with all due respect that sounds like a diplomatic way of giving the indication that that's again all we have let me put it this way have you received any assurances from u.s. authorities that they will make sure eggs in can do the job no we haven't asked such guarantees and we haven't received search or identities it's the company who is doing whatever. they thought and probably appropriate in order to succeed to. progress and their ability issues of courting to. the license they've got. even if you haven't asked the u.s. side you have expectations from the u.s. navy that they will t

on 2 august, 1964, one of those destroyers was attacked. >> three north vietnamese navy torpedo boats went out after the u.s. destroyer maddox. they lost the fight. >> washington called the attacks unpro advocate and claimed the maddox under the command of captain john harrick was on a routine patrol in international waters. two days later on a moonless rain-swept night, the maddox, now accompanied by the uss sea turner joy picked up what seemed to be high speed vessels on its radar. both ships opened fire. >> i'm confident that there was no attack. that what they were seeing was ghosts on their radar, generated by the weather. >> when the smoke cleared, captain harrick cabled pearl harbor. his message forwarded to washington said review of action makes many reported contacts and torpedos fired appear doubtful. but lbj running for president, and not wanting to appear weak or indecisive decided he had to respond. >> i knew that hostile actions have today required me to take action in reply. >> i think it was time to bomb the hell out of north vietnam. and all the restrictions that we w

he led the implementation of president reagan's strategy of larger, competitive, modern navy and it was an honor for me to work for him the final two years of his term in office. president reagan and senator tower's vision of the importance of navy is illustrated by this week's visit of the carl vincent to vietnam. senator tower also a master chief petty officer is looking down from his heavenly perch with great pride and seeing his grandson, tower cook, and the success of the united states navy. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. sir, this is to notify you formally pursuant to rule 8 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives that i have been served with a civil subpoena for documents and depositions testimony issued by the united states district court for the district of maryland. after consultation with the office of general counsel, i have determined that compliance with the subpoenas is not consistent with the privileges and rights of the house. sign

we heard late today of a navy jet crash. we have more on that. >>> the new video just in tonight, the suspect under arrest in another country, wanted in connection with murdering a nursing student here in the u.s. >>> and tonight, police say the husband who told a priest that he murdered his wife, has now been captured with the priest's help. we'll be right back. right back. oms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough, it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. pml, a rare, serious, potentially fatal brain infection caused by a virus may be possible. this condition has not been reported with entyvio. tell your doctor if you ha

the two navy aviators injected but did not survive. this happened off key west florida. a source telling fox news the jet was flying on one engine when it lost the other lol to 2. the president tweeting please join me with your thoughts and prayers for both aviators, their families and our incredible u.s. navy. this is just the latest incident bolstering calls from lawmakers to rebuild our military. paul ryan says almost a decade under the obama administration during which the military was not a top priority left major gaps in the readiness of our armed forces. a stronger military is capable of stopping our enemies in a 21st-century world. in november the head of naval aviation told congress only half the navy's super hornets that crashed can't fly right now. 31% are fully mission capable and ready to fight tonight. since the beginning of 2017 there have been 13 navy flight mishaps as they are called, not to mention 111 mishaps across the army, marines and air force. naval air station oceana, that affirmative defense will wait 24 hours, to publicly identify them. >> 6 ar

this very nice man at the department of navy mr. charles mccarthy found me a job in philadelphia at the emergency shipping board which was involved with the war effort as well. well, about the time that job was winding down in 1920, mr. cabbing car think wrote me a letter and said that he was the campaign secretary for franklin roosevelt who was running for vice president on the democratic party ticket with james m.cox, well, he needed a good girl to come down to manhattan and work at the office and was i interested and i knew it was going to be a very, very long campaign because i got the letter in august 1920 and the election wasn't until november, quite a long time for a presidential campaign, isn't it, so i came to manhattan and i didn't see much of mr. roosevelt, i did meet him because he was whistle stopping across the country by train, he gave a thousand speeches during those three months. but it was all for nothing, it was a very, very bad year for the democrats, nobody wanted to hear about woodrow wilson, the great war, the

the navy and air force received $38.4 billion for advanced air fighters and the majority of those funds will be funneled into the f-35 program. guest: the joint strike fighter, the f-35. -- itite house requested was not a bashful budget request -- they asked for 70 aircraft. congress said, we see or 70 and we will give you 20 more. was like thet appropriators turning to the -- turning into opera. you get a plan, you get a plane. -- plane, you get a plane. we saw what we call from zeros to heroes. there were $6.8 billion in new weapon systems that the pentagon did not ask a dime for. they did not ask for a single penny and congress found $6.8 billion to throw at these programs. host: how are they prepared to spend that? guest: they are going to be letting contracts. normally there is what they call the 8020 rule where you can't spend more than 20% of the appropriated funds in the last two months of the fiscal year. oto -- to 75 t 25. we are going to see if lockheed martin has the capacity to turn out 90 planes instead of 70 planes. for: stephen ellis is taxpayer.net. joining us for this

to work at the department of the navy at that time the department of the navy had a very charismatic young assistant secretary named franklin and eleanor roosevelt but i never met him then either. in fact i have a rather spotty and embarrassing short career at the department of the navy. i was working in this area of top secrecy and that they would get a sheet of paper in stenography and we would type them out and then they would give another sheet that has nothing to do with the first and then another that had nothing to do with the other two. and i would come home to the boarding house at night just exhausted, shoulders aching, head pounding and i had no idea what i had done all my day. we went to see mount vernon and had a beautiful wonderful day until we got home. there was a heart murmur for my fever the job was in order so this nice man at the department of the navy foun can't be a jobn philadelphia at the emergency shipping board so by the time they were winding down in 1920, mr. mccarthy wrote me a letter for franklin delano roosevelt on the democratic party ticket. he needed

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but for the relations they they have a chance. >> hi. >> for a visit by the taiwan navy. i invited the chief of the navy at that time, he invited me, to the maritime security company this taiwan, so they were dealing with how to cooperate. we can do that and also i hope that the taiwan navy used the united states and the taiwan airport. it's fundamental that japan and the united states and taiwan are there, it's very important, sometimes the relations between taiwan and japan and the united states, more hopeful. just now, the relations are not so different for the security relations. tpp, the administration, it's not only the economy but also the security. >> just a follow-up on that. now we have japan in the drivers seat. from your perspective, does that add an additional component to how japan is thug about the economic infrastructure. >> tpp? >> yes. >> well, there is a lot of economic benefit for the globe and the security also. i think that the international community including the united states will build an airport in taiwan. they announced a new strategy, also the

neller: the advice i gave to the secretary of the navy and the sect f is privileged communication among us. i read the policy in the president said he would differ to the decision of the secretary of defense and homeland security. i believe this is still under litigation. until thentime, courts decide it i think we will leave it at that. there are any number of personnel in the record. it fluctuates. it is not a large number. i met with some of them and they are out there serving. >> some transgender troops? gen. neller: there are. they are out there. and as long as they are out there, they are expected to maintain the standards and perform the requirements. as long as they do so, they will continue where they should perform and serve their country. we will see what happens with the decision. i know there is a lot of litigation going on but i will not speculate on it in the meantime. >> i will remind the audience that we will open this up to questions in the latter half of that so keep them in mind. let us go around the world. i went out to centcom in january and we went up to syria, an

the british navy. all poured forth their concentrated fury. this was blitz warfare such as the inventors of the blitz had never dreamed of. ♪ the nazi's challenge to the fight of the free world or surrender was being answered. [ gunfire ] ♪ [ gunfire ] [ gunfire ] >> after only eight hours fighting, the hard trust of german resistance was shattered. our armor crashed through. the americans policed their way in. the british smashed right through the center to capture tunis. then a british armored column crashed across the neck. another british column raced around the tip of the cape to prevent any evacuation. the whole axis mass was split into four segments. the end came quickly. >> by tens, by hundreds, by thousands they came. on foot, in trucks, and behind their bands. the greatest mass surrender of fully equipped troops in modern history. we had lost nearly 70,000 men, dead, wounded, and missing. 35,000 british, 18,000 americans, 15,000 french. but for every man we had lost, the enemy lost five. and at the end, 15 full divisions, 266,000

navy. >>> senate foreign relations chairman says a vote on the authorization of use of military force could come as soon as next month. corker says he is hopeful his committee is close to agreement. lawmakers have been struggling for years to redefine the legal authority to wage war on terrorism. many calling for restrictions on the efforts while majority of republicans prefer to not make changes. >>> to a cnn exclusive. analysis finding defense employees charged $138,000 at trump branded properties in the first eight months of the trump presidency. the charges are the most recent evidence that taxpayer money flows to trump businesses which could violate ethical norms and possibility the u.s. constitution. >> military personnel spending one-third on lodging and food on what appears to be mar-a-lago. that is no liis mostly in line president and 2017. >>> hud is struggling to explain e-mails that contradict claims that secretary ben carson and his wife candy had no involvement in the dining room set which costs $130,000. carson and his wife selected the furniture themselves. >> an argue