nation's soldiers, past, present, and future in the regular army, the army reserves, and the army national guard. thank you for joining us for our virtual ceremony. out of an abundance of caution during the covid-19 pandemic, there is no in-person audience today and certain ceremonial elements have been prerecorded. please welcome the official party to the states. secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b. mccarthy. chief of staff of the army, general james c. mcconville. sergeant major of the army, michael a. grinston. director of the national museum of the united states army, ms. tammy call. accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c. miller. and chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. millie. now presenting the colors is the third united states infantry regiment, the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. the national anthem will be performed by sergeant first class jesse meeks from the united states army band, pershing's own. ♪ ♪ >> present arms! >> ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we

they're all in the army. they're all in the army. do you think they would be better served if it was an independent federal law agency that was overseeing these investigations for the army rather than military personnel? >> they're not uniformed. they are plainclothes special agents. they're enlisted and warrant officers. >> right. conundrum lies the because they are subject to transfer, subject to deployment, subject to being pulled away for field training and that sort of thing. you are hitting on a very strong investigativem an standpoint. there needs to be continuity and a stable force of experienced agents. i think all of us discussed this. there need to be more investigators within cid so you can balance out -- in fact a preponderance of investigators should be 18-11's. they pretty much stay on that post. if you want less experienced agents moving through, they can be the stable force that mentors them and creates the institutional experience and skill. i hate to make comparisons to other military branches, but at ncs, it is al

army reserve. the committee have brought expertise with organizational dynamics, and a combined 75 years of experience as active duty military and law enforcement personnel. the committee was directed by the secretary of the army to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the ft. hood command climate and culture and impacted any on the safety, welfare and readiness of our soldiers and units. in addressing this mandate, the committee determined that during the time period, the command climate, relative to sexual harassment and assault response and prevention at ft. hood was ineffective. to the extent there is a permissive environment for sexual assault and harassment. the report set forth specific findings, which demonstrate that the implementation of the s.h.a.r.p. program was ineffective. during the review period, no commanding general or echelon commander chose to intervene proactively and mitigate known risks of high crime, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. the result was a pervasive lack of

it's a claim that the army says they're currently investigating. her case gaining traction this summer, invoking outrage over sexual harassment and abuse in the military. >> we demand justice! >> reporter: launching a movement under #iamvanessaguillen. >> the murder of specialist vanessa guillen shocked our conscience and brought attention to deeper problems. >> reporter: today the pentagon took unprecedented action, announcing that 14 top army leaders and enlisted personnel at ft. hood have been fired or suspended for failure of leadership. it follows a three-month-long investigation into the culture and climate at ft. hood. >> initial investigation into vanessa's death coupled with high numbers of crimes and deaths at ft. hood has revealed a series of missteps and multiple failures in our system and within our leadership. >> reporter: the investigating by an independent civilian ban nel determining that serious crime issues on and off ft. hood were neither identified nor addressed. it also said that the system in place designed to report and prev

four weeks of basic training finished, the army nurse was ready to serve wherever the army needed her most. she might have found herself stationed in a general hospital right here at home. or perhaps assigned to a mobile hospital unit overseas. after she arrived, she may have helped to build the very hospital in which she worked. for the field hospital, or the evacuation hospital, like a circus, had to be able to pack up and move on at a moment's notice. its primary function was to offer immediate surgical treatment to the wounded, and that meant following ever-changing battle lines. everyone pitched in when a mobile hospital went up. enlisted men, doctors, and nurses. just one small instance when -- instant -- instance where basic training paid off. those muscles, toughened and hardened during those four weeks of basic back home, were equal to the job. in the field, the army nurse lived roughly and worked gently. there was no glamour and her life was far from spectacular. she slept under hastily-pitched canvas, on a g.i. cot, under g.i. blankets. she trained her mind to act like an a

the fifth army under the general of the panther force. and the seventh army at the left wing under general brandenberger for coverage in the south. while the operation was being prepared, it was important above all to keep this a secret from the allied forces. all movements were made during the night only. all vehicles in the front vicinity were wrapped in straw to keep the noise to a minimum. but nobody could predict how the situation would develop by december 16th. >> from the beginning hitler's generals saw no success for the counteroffensive but the fuhrer was adamant. he was irrevocable. his key elements were surprise, speed, and to prevent allied air cover, bad weather as specified in the basic order from the high command. >> the operation will take place only under favorable weather conditions. these will be ordered by the fuhrer, the sentences induced me to call up headquarters and ironically inquire whether hitler was now ordering the weather too. >> the weather did take sides. it was a harsh, confusing enemy to combat command b

the army that defeats the japanese, we refer to often as the british indian army. it is an indian army that defeats the japanese. whilst they are fighting on the british side, who they're really fighting for is india. after the war, my grandfather continued his military career and had a long life. others were not so fortunate. a war that drew in many countries means that today some lie far from home. their service is commemorated, but their stories are slipping further into the past. now it is up to us to remember, to learn, to be grateful for the courage of those who went before. sophie: mishal husain and the extraordinary story of her grandfather. while fighting a conflict on this scale required immense resources a nd co nsta nt supplies, much of it was transported by sea. the merchant navy delivered supplies to britain and the troops who were serving abroad, but it was a dangerousjob. the merchant navy suffered one of the highest casualty rates. huw edwards tells the story of his grandfather who served with the atlantic convoys. huw: the story begins in the tiny

i can reunite my army. so that raises the big question that people are always going to ask. i try to answer it but i think people will continue to ask it. why does lee decide to fight a battle at sharks burke fight? as you take this enormous risk to assemble his army there with all this hard marching and offer a battle in maryland? the interpretation that i came up with is again, lee is an opportunist. the moment he withdraws across the potomac river in virginia, he surrenders the initiative to the army. you never likes to surrender the initiative. if he stays in maryland and offers battle, and defeats mcclellan's attack against him, what might mcclellan do? you do not know what he is going to do. what has he done in the past? he might fall back to a strong defensive position like south mountain. if he does that, lee remains in maryland. the way to pennsylvania is to open and the campaign north of the potomac river can't continue. that strategically as a win for a confederacy. lead takes a tremendous risk h

the umpire calls batter up, and the game is on -- army versus army. this infield will never play in the polo grounds. but one of their patients might. [applause] off-duty for a while, some nurses strode through the streets and buildings of ancient cities. others preferred a round of golf. or a swim somewhere if the weather was right. then it was back to duty, back to the sick and wounded, back to the hospital, around which the army nurse revolves. those patients scheduled for a trip back home for the final period of convalescence, traveled on a hospital ship as fully equipped as a stationary hospital. now as before, the army nurse stands by, ready to minister to every need. next stop, a demarcation -- a debarcation hospital. then a general hospital in the united states and complete recovery. and this is the end of the long chain of evacuation, the general hospital back home. here, the army nurse works patiently with her hands, her head, and her heart. here, she gently guides men back to the way of life they fought to protect. although she might have v

he graduated at west point and served as an army officer in the active army and u.s. army reserve. after that introduction, i'm going to read a very brief statement and turn it back over to elizabeth. on july 30th, 2020, the ft. hood independent review committee was chartered by the secretary of the army to conduct a comprehensive, independent review of the ft. hood command climate and culture and assess its impact on the health, safety and readiness of its soldiers and units, particularly as it related to preventing sexual assault, harassment, crime issues affecting soldiers and missing soldier protocols. we began our work immediately. the committee members who had never met each other prior to their appointment were tasked to organize themselves, devise a strategy for the review, gather relevant facts and complete a final report to the secretary within 90 days. all of the members have day jobs with significant responsibilities. we couldn't cast those aside, however, we accepted this appointment based on a shared belief that an independent body could indeed assess the serious issu

the army of the potomac is the most politically volatile army in american history. zach frye's new book. in 1860 come he votes for john bell. we know that. -- in 1960, he votes for john bell. they will know that. he is a west pointer, so he is a conservative democrat. in the early years of the war, you see george meade very much aligning with mcclellan's philosophy of conciliation, very much conciliation. peter: what does that mean? define that for us. what does it look with -- look like? jennifer: conciliation is the belief that the majority of southern civilians, white, southern civilians, are not human armyts, so the needs to act with kid gloves, so when the union army is in virginia, it means not confiscating property. it means not looting. and it means not pillaging to keep those civilians on the fence or thereby loyal to the union, and george meade does not in any way favor looting or these raids of confiscating southern civilian property. in northern virginia in the winter of 1861, near drains phil, he is asked to go out, and he is joining the brigade with th

, confederate army. i argue, in my chapter on the pursuit and in some of the other work i've written, one of the volumes on approaches to new military history, i argue that it meade's actions in the pursuit, are successful in two ways. two big questions. if you look at, decisive battles in world military history, they are difficult to achieve. a battle that completely destroyed the enemy, and we can find a few comparisons with napoleon. right. but more so, a decisive battlefield victory, coupled with a successful pursuit, that leads a crushing basically in crushing the belligerent, the enemy, that's incredibly difficult, and incredibly rare. so when lincoln, and the northern public, the philadelphia enquirer, on july the sixth says, that's a big deal. the expectations that they're putting on george meade and the potomac, to be like water blue are monumental. so meade's forces pursue, they've fought a tiring battle for three days. the soldier their counts during the pursuit are fascinating. the weather is

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army. this is march of 1864. the army is going to be reorganized. grabt grant is in the east. he hears people talking about the investigation that's going on about his leader. he didn't know about it. he writes this letter back home to his wife and he says the conversations on the streets of washington are about my leadership at gettysburg. it's a great book. 15 generals testify on the whole and in the end they're looking to see why gettysburg was not more of a culminating victory. we can get into the pursuit. we have a chance to get into that. they question why he uses council of war. does mead even want to fight at gettysburg. he wants to retreat. that's the narrative that sickles and others have already cast. >> just a quick question and i'll turn it over to john. i think you would agree, that people who are well informed of the civil war, you've heard people who have made multiple trips to gettysburg, they're not aware on the committee of the conduct of war and i think it's wrong to sta

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we believe that sent a profound message throughout the army, throughout leadership of the army, like a tsunami wave. >> schifrin: the report criticizes fort hood's implementation of the program designed to prevent and improve sexual assault reporting but acknowledges, "many of those most closely involved in thear program at fort hood lacked confidence in most aspects of the program." >> i believe that the real problem that we saat fort hood was the implementation of the sharp program at the lower o levethe command. aders at every echelon of the attention, weren't carefully motoring how that informationim ementation was taking place at every echelon of command. and when you got down to they compvel at fort hood, it wasn't being implemented at all. >> schifrin: the report emphasized women at fort hoodto were afraid eport because previous cases of harassment and assault, had gone unpunished. independent review committee mber carrie ricci. >> and then other women would say, because of what happens to eethis soldier, i wouldn't comfortable coming f wward. so the an overall sense that, the

they enlist in the american army and once the army gets close to new york city they will reason away and rejoin their regiments. they were forced here and maltreated and had no loyalty to their princes that sent them for money -- that story, it is not really true. these are regular basically professional soldiers. they have sworn an oath. they feel a duty. and they want to get home at the end of the war. so we couldn't really know, but it is much more complicated than we would like it to be. >> thank you all for coming out this evening and thank you to dr. jones for his talk this evening. >> thank you. [ applause ] >>> week nights this month we feature american history tv programs to preview what's available every weekend on c-span3. tonight, american history tv joined tour guide eric finley to learn about the early history of mobile, alabama, and to visit africa town a national historic landmark neighborhood north of the city founded by former slave who is were captured on a ship. runl discovered under the mud of the river, it smuggled roughly 110 kidnapped west africans to mobile i

army was trained. this fort would later become a very important defensive position for the chesapeake bay, showing some of the most modern weapons of our time. later, fort monroe would become the center of training and doctrine command for the united states army. the rest of our museum talks about not only the military history that occurred here, but the social aspects of point comfort here at fort monroe. it is here, through the rest of our exhibits that you will learn how the social aspects of virginia merged with the military aspects of fort monroe. this is a living, breathing, viable community, and would stay that way all the way until its closure in 2011. >> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs by visiting our website, c-span.org/history. >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history, every weekend on c-span. follow us on twitter. and to keep up with the latest history news. month, wehts this feature american history tv programs as a previ

and the army of the potomac. what is -- mcclellan is making all of these claims that the army is unfit to take the field. he needs to train and he needs to resupply it. i want to look at those -- that rebuildi rebuilding period and i also want to look at briefly -- there's a number of soldiers who write about -- after the battle is over, one individual comes to mind, it was a colonel of a new york regiment in the first corps. and a soldier in his regiment said that the colonel had not come out of his tent -- this is after the battle, for a number of days. nobody saw him. he just stayed in the tent. a major of the sixth wisconsin writes about being -- feeling sick after the battle for quite some time. william robins who was a major of the fourth alabama infantry, he had a good friend who he was talking to who had his head taken off in front of him by an artillery projectile. he writes about how he never wrote an after-action report for his regiment because he was ill for quite some time after the battle. i want to

you're not gonna have the same standing armies. there's no aristocracy in the british colonies in north america. that shares the same values. additionally and most importantly, north america is also home to the indigenous population. different native nations that have their own culture of war, their own understanding of what is acceptable violence in war. to take a scalp in the native culture of war, is an accepted practice of warfare. in europe, this would be seen as barbarism. savagely. europeans tended to view their native antagonist has uncivilized, beyond the pale of civilization as they would say. therefore not entitled to the same protections. when european forces are going to fight against ate nations, they will te extreme violence in the 18th century. additionally the officers of the colonial american forces are going to model themselves on the european counterparts. they want to be seen not as mere provincial's, they want to be seeing as this. you see him or straining his native ally. this warrior wants to scout the frenc

the southern armies, most of the southern army's supplies had to come from the north. in the 18th means and time. supplies on wagons drawn by horses at a walk. one example. green sent a request to the board of war in april 4 april 1781 for clothing from william washington's third continental degrees as theirs was in a state of " decay." third continental dragons. the clothing arrived five months later, 31 august at charlotte and by 10 september still had not reached colonel washington's dragoons. it was the ever present problem of supplies being hijacked on the way by local officials and militia leaders throughout the campaign, greene struggled mightily to supply his soldiers and spent an inordinate amount of time on that problem with enough success to keep the army in the field. the importance of logistics is driven home by the fifth century spartan mercenary commander who wrote " without supplies, neither a general nor a soldier is good for anything. " without supplies, neither a general nor a soldier is good for anything. 2500 years later general omar bradley, gener

it will change the army. rassment and assault in assment and assault in the military are not new. 15 years ago, the pentagon created a program to try to fix it. today's report sheds light on where it falls short. i notice that in the new report t u acknowledge that ineffective due to command climate. that sounds kind of like a euphemism. what is "command climate?" commanders, that's the problem. >> in this case, some of them, yes. >> o'donnell: and while today's report outlines wide-ranging reforms, one of the most stunning revelations is that ationsalf of female soldiers solerviewed felt confident their dent tders would take any report seriously. those survivors and whistleblowers that we spoke with raised real concerns about whether the army can police itself. >> it's fair for them to be upset. sults s matter. >> o'donnell: so, is it a cultural issue or is it a command issue? >> commanders set the culture. >> o'donnell: and those commanders will be held accountable. >> correct. >> o'donnell: you will likely

by nimitz and richardson was the army's top general in that theater. he left a very detailed and very insightful diary which absolutely is an essential source to understanding particularly understanding service rivalries in the pacific and the struggle between the army, navy from someone who was in direct contact with nimitz on a virtual day-to-day basis and knew what was happening. and so richardson or general richardson left his diary to his defendants and said keep it private until the year 2015 when i'm sure that everybody i know will be gone. and i was fortunate enough to be contacted by the family in 2015 and said would you like the diary and i said what i like the diary? thank you so much. so it's an important new source and provided a lot of insight in many different aspects of this narrative but most importantly turning to the first chapter of the pacific strategy competence where he visited a wahoo and macarthur through from australia but macarthur stayed with richardson in his house and they were old friends. he debriefed general richardson

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as no match in military history the red army defeated the kuantan army in just 10 days. on august the 19th it's commander in chief photos or jada complied with the soviet high commands ultimatum on immediate and unconditional surrender he handed his sword to a soviet officer and other generals followed suit. after the start of the red ami's military operation the units 731100 were completely liquidated as per my orders. the soviet army swift advance deprived us of the possibility of employing a biological weapon against the us as our other countries. tribunals transcript a commander in chief of the japanese. auto zone. was in a hurry. the red army was advancing too quickly and he didn't want to be captured by russian. prisoners were killed and their bodies destroyed. personnel and valuables were relocated they had to leave behind was. most of the facilities were blown up. on august of 1945 the 1st servia troops entered the city of harbin. the 731 camp had already been blown up and own the most important materials removed but there was still traces of the crimes. to view

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the president attending the army-navy football game. we'll have updates throughout the day here on the fox news channel on the game. you know, the army black knights are facing the navy mud shipmen. -- midshipmen. the army has a better record, 7-2 over the navy, they have a 3-6 record. it is quite a special day up in west point. as you can hear the chants and the cheers, the midshipmen and cadets are in the stands. the general public not allowed. usually the game is played in philadelphia. this is the first time since 1943, world war ii, that the game has been played up at wes point. if not only -- west point. not only a chance for the president to greet and be with and see the game with many of the young cadets at west point and the others, also a very poignant day because navy offensive tackle billy will be honoring one of his former teammates, david fornow, a 22-year-old left guard who died this in his dorm of cardiac arrest earlier this year. and his pal billy will be wearing his friend's consumer city e number, number -- jersey num

troops of the 7th army. which i deployed with the weapons that we established, but placing them on the left side overlooking the open field of fire where they could better utilize their automatic weapons. they were assemblying any other support we could feel. it was the 9th armor division. we were hit with our first attack. they were knocked out. between 11,000 and 3,000 the jer mans again attacked us. the line still held, but we started the long role of losses. >> the battle of the bulge had begun more than 50 german columns were now attacking and there was spin tragss everywhere. they were approaching from three sides. at take was not simply a town, but the time table of the offensive. and it was already one irrecoverable day behind. next, part two. on the 18th of december, the conflict that would become the battle of the bulge was two days old, and it started with a counter offensive with a stringt time table. two armies should have reached the river driving toward their objective. a junction of roads and

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they were part of the the army following lee's army as he tried to escape. and in the words of george washington williams who was a former soldier and african-american historian the last guns fired at lee's army at appomattox were in the hands of the gross soldiers. some of those hands belonged to men from wisconsin they marched all night the previous night to arrive just in time to block lee's last avenue of escape from appomattox. so they this this regiment really did was involved heavily in combat and civil war and did some big things. of the two of the struggles that the the african-american soldiers were involved in um included wisconsin men loverture hospital was a segregated hospital in alexandria virginia. where a lot of the casualties from the crater battle went for surgery or rehabilitation. what happened when these black soldiers died is that they were not buried in the alexandria national cemetery which was two blocks from the hospital. but they were taken and buried in unmarked graves in a friedman cemetery a couple miles away on -- in alexandri

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the red army was advancing too quickly and he didn't want to be captured by russians. prisoners were killed and their bodies destroyed. personnel and valuables were relocated they had to leave behind was. most of the facilities were blown up. on august in 1945 the 1st servia troops entered the city of harbin. 731 camp already being blown up and old the most important materials removed but there will still traces of the crimes. servia troops found evidence of the biological warfare units activities. central unit 731 personnel much captured on loan with the kuantan army commander in chief and senior military medical service officers. meanwhile she made contact with the americans. i'm going to. hurt the. motor to bring the. needy. already. and that wasn't the 1st time the pentagon had also sheltered several german fascists the removal of nazi criminals from the country was code named operation paperclip there were thousands over all by one estimate as many as 10000 not just the scientists the scientists total about $1600.00 or more but there were also concentration camp g

these countries have their own armies. for instance, the u.s. carried out a training exercise called operation flint long. they has one, i think in february. so there's definitely a u.s. commitment in the sense they've got u.s. effort in -- they have french businesses also in the countries. there already is a foreign presence but i think once you are mentioning, this country would deploy boots on the ground again, there are already boots on the ground in essential e e instance. u.s. marines are not allowed to rescue an america who was kidnapped by bandits in nigeria so we don't necessarily need nip one country or countries from a coalition to come and fight because there is already one on the ground. what is needed is for the international committee to support what's on the ground >> all right, i'm so sorry, we're right out of time. so much to talk about but thank you to both of you. and thank you, too, for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website, al jazeera.com and for further discussion, go to our facebook page

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the military army chief, the intelligence services of pakistan. and not too long before just last year when he was in the united states he gave a statement that it is the isis the intelligent service which actually was responsible for 0sama bin laden. etc, etc. when he was out of power, when he was in opposition, he had given 21 different statements at different times. he was known as taliban khan. are we talking or wish to discuss this performance are we here to talk whether it is a pure democracy? 0ther oppositions and you have created this movement you want to deliver early elections and see imran booted out of power. but many people even in your own movement are backing away from the targeting of the pakistani military. it has been said it was regrettable that nawaz sharif had named the military chief by name. even his own daughter maryam had to stress at great length that she was not anti—military. it sounds that nawaz sharif has overstepped the mark. there seems to be confusion. mr nawaz sharif as prime minister or otherwise is not anti mi

salvation army will deliver nearly 5,000 meals to needy seniors. that's 1,000 more than last year as i mentioned. because of the pandemic both the need and challenges are greater than ever before. typically many volunteers that you see here would be making the meals in the salvation army's major kitchen shoulder to shoulder, prepping the meals. they couldn't do that because of the need to keep people safe and social distanced. instead they contracted with a catering company to make the meals. they have all been dropped off here. these folks will be handling loading these meals into the cars that will be arifling here momentarily. for many of the seniors that get the meals, this might be the only meals and might be the only folks they interact with today. that is part of the tradition that they are still trying to do and keep it safe as well. >>> high def doppler has rain sitting off the coast waiting for us. we will track that throughout the course of this. you can expect the best of the rain really in the early afternoon for most of the bay area b