the corp. of engineers. this is two hours. >> good morning, the subcommittee of transportation and infrastructure water resources cube committee will convene. at this time, i'd like to welcome general walsh of our testimony here, the committee here in today eats review of the united states army corp. of engineers chief reports, and at this time, i ask unanimous consent that members not on the committee be ready to sit with the committee in today's hearing. hearing no ob jecs, so ordered. in order to yield time to our chairman of the full tni committee for opening remarks he may have. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i appreciate you letting me go first. i have a 14-hour day in the articled services committee day. i hope it's only 14 hours, but we'll see. also, i'd like to welcome congress mapp kramer from north dakota who has a keen interest in what the the corp. does and welcome to listen dias to listen in. thank you for your service, and i know you're going off to greener pastures later in the yea

of the marine corps. with that i think i will stop, and mike and i will jump up here and take some questions. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, general. i would like to pick up with a couple of the scenes that you usually begin with. let's get to the sequestration matter in more detail. i will begin as a for early skeptic might. i raised the issue in terms of the debate we heard last year. secretary panetta and others were saying that sequestration is allowed to happen, this guy's going to fall. now we are a couple of months into it and this guy does not seem to have fallen. i am not trying to defend sequestration, by the way, but i think a lot of people will wonder why such a hullabaloo is made of this. so much rhetoric was devoted to this, but it has happened, and we seem to be doing ok, at least in the short term. can we keep in place and keep the cuts over 10 years as opposed to just suffering through sequestration for a few weeks or months. why did this guy not all? >> it is because it has not take

federal government, mad at the marine corps. that's why i'm here. >> ah! >> i just want to thank everybody for coming. right now, we've identified probably the single largest male breast cancer cluster that's ever been known. the proceeds from the calendars, they're going to go for grant research to look into camp lejeune, not only for male breast cancer, but other diseases. jerry, do you want to say anything? >> the guy who started it all. come on. give him props. [ applause ] >> you know, i'm just glad that i was able to help you people in this room. so semper fi. >> semper fi. [ applause ] >> relax a little bit. that's it. don't look stiff. that's good. look at me. beautiful. >> wonderful. thank you. >> today's a big day. the house of representatives was introducing a bill. i was in my study, sitting behind my -- in front of my computer, when they called me. quite an honor. >> good morning, and welcome. i'm very proud to be here to introduce the janey ensminger act. this bill is the next step in providing justice to those who

reply grandfather helped build locks and dams on the mississippi back with the corps in the 1940's, so long history. n the past, as has always been mentioned, congress appreciatized projects in the program. given that that is now now happening and we're much more restrict in that, i'm concerned that the program is oversubscribed heavily. can you talk to us a little bit about how the corps prioritizes projects in the continuing authorities program at this point? how many programs are currently projects in the queue, for example? >> in the continuing authorities program, there is -- it is oversubscribed in trying to get to those projects that are closest to being complete, appreciatizing those, funding those at the highest that we can for capability reasons and then bringing them into a conclusion, and then going to the next one down on the list is the best way that with the capping of the cap program, that's the best way i know to go through it, get them to completion, then go down and get the next one. instead of lots of projects with limited funds, let's just ork down the list. >> i h

this is the oldest post of the corps, because most of our history comes from this place from the 19th century, we started holding parades to show people what we're all about. >> good evening, ladies. welcome to marine barracks, washington. >> every friday evening over the summer, the public is invited to visit the post to watch the evening parade. >> what's really nice about marine barracks, washington, is that we treat all of our guests with the utmost respect. they receive all military courtesies, customs... >> welcome to the barracks. have a great night. >> whether you're 5 years old or 85 years old, officer, enlisted, we welcome everyone aboard equally, and we try to show them the hospitality that they would get anywhere when you invite people to your home. >> need any assistance? main gate, 4 south. actually, it's going to be right here, ladies. >> the reason we escort the ladies while we're outside on 8th street is to demonstrate propriety and courteousness. during the time of the 19th and sometimes early 20th century, men actually did that for women. but that's something we try

the marine corps. this is the unit where the best of the best go. it is the marine corps' showcase ceremonial unit. it handles presidents and dignitaries, security at the white house, the silent drill team. after my deployment to operation iraqi freedom in 2008-2009, my commanding officer recommended me for the marine barracks, washington. i was excited. it was the tip of the spear, as far as the marine corps is concerned. man: she would stay at work late, and then she would drive home, and she'd call me, and she'd be on some kind of little high, and she'd talk about how she loved her job. she was a...this sweet person who was trying really hard and succeeding. ariana: one of the first things i was told when i tucked in was "don't wear any makeup because the marines will think that you want to sleep with them." and i thought, "that's just ridiculous." the atmosphere off the bat at marine barracks, washington, was horrible. people asked me what sexual favors had i performed to get my orders there. arian

taipber in the marine corps. please help me welcome major general melvin speese >> well, of course i am not admiral roughhead, mr. secretary, but i did spend the night at marine's memorial club so i think i'm able to fill in okay. as general my dsz at said, i've had the p opportunity to purpose in fleet week over the last several years. my attention and focus has been, obviously, from the first marine expeditionary forces perspective and our close partnership, the third fleet and expeditionary strike group 3 in supporting fleet week. clearly filling in for admiral roughhead i'm going to have to elevate my comments and move to a little bit different level. the department of defense is very comprehensively represented here at fleet week this year, more so than ever before. we have a representative from the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and american security affairs in the audience and they were here in august when we did our exercise with the city. fema is well represented and we have several

the press corp was given an intelligence test and it is failing it miserably because the press corp cares about, what does your gut tell you? that is the way they talk to each other privately. they read campaign polls and then say to each other over drinks and dinner hey, what does your gut tell you? nate silver doesn't check his gut, he checks the facts he can collect. that's what made him the most accurate predictor of the last election. today, members of the washington press corp are asking each other privately at lunch, at dinner, what does your gut tell you about the so-called irs scandal? they pride themselves on their guts. they believe that their guts are of value. real informational value. that is why the group think of the washington press corp delivered that question to darrell issa through one of the most distinguished members. what does your gut tell you? that question was not a search for the truth, it was not a search for a fact of any kind. that question was to put it very mildly inappropriate. but the answer was sheer madness. >> my gut tells me that too many people knew

only the second american officer to command at the division corps and army conflict ng the same during his time in iraq, since vietnam the second to do that. he knows his profession from all sides. after his first assignment with u.s. army europe he was ssigned to the 18th airborne corps fort bragg where he ommanded it batteries and was ballo officer. operations he led the division during freedom.n iraqi from december 2006 to february commanding ed as a general multinational corps as the operational commander of the forces. willnk military historians be looking at that. e served as commander general multinational force iraq and u.s. forces iraq from september september 2010. commanded ly he united states joint forces command. e's served as assistant to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff where he was the primary secretaries sor to of state powell and rice, lots lots of responsibility. general odierno, we are honored to have you here. barry andn it over to general odierno. >> thank you very much, fred. general, thank you for taking time out of your extraordinarily this chedule esp

corps is similar to the navy. we have the installation, the regional installation command and also partners with the operational foresite. we allow the operational foresight, we maintain those but then we coordinate, cooperate, with the operational foresight once the call comes in for support. so we're able to do that obviously through memorandum of understandings and we have agreements and our wing operating orders allow for the fact the operational control, at least under operational response, maintains with the operators. the third aircraft wing maintains operational control but we send our operatives out to be controlled by the civic sight. we're comfortable with that and that's matured a lot in the last couple years. >> talked a lot about command and control and agreements and moving resources. one other question that came up yesterday we were discussing yesterday is how do communications occur specifically with regard to when we start talking about air ops and moving air resources around, how do we ensure th

the niche we have as the marine corps assets we have the ability to locate some of our resources like shock trauma platoons, that's what we do in combat and we have experience with that and that may be something that may be of benefit to this process. >> during the last panel, mr. cahen mentioned it's so important to understand the resources that his agency has versus the ones that the military has and he said at one point they started looking down in terms of typing, i have this, you have this, how are we going to respond and get the resources we need to deal with the incident. i'd like to hear from all of you what did you learn about what the other agencies' capabilities are and how did that open your eyes? >> yesterday we had a great opportunity to look at a variety of resources. in the midst of all the demonstrations that we had, we actually had an hour lecture on dsca, which is pretty incredible to get everything about dsca in one hour. it was a great effort by the folks who do that lecture. to show you how well i listened, i have some take away points on that. the first is that

marine corps and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i went over and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he's going to have some interesting perspectives about working in the police department in a war zone. lieutenant commander patricia serrano, her assignments have been varied includes working as a immediate vaek core man, a legal clerk and a tqm instructor. she completed a 7-month deployment. captain mike napolitano is serving with the navy's expedition training group. while deployed in 2004, he spearheaded maritime patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as commanding officer of the expeditionary training group. this is a fabulous panel and i know you're going to appreciate what they have to say. rear admiral, i think you'll start. >> first of all on behalf of the chilean navy i would like to thank so much to san francisco fleet week, particul

game, against the press corps. the press corp won, 11-8. >>> and now for this morning's forecast, we're joined by dylan dryer. >> we're talking about the heat and scattered thunderstorms. the storms are down through tennessee. those are weakening as we speak. another round of showers and storms redeveloping in the same area, the biggest threat will be for large hail and damaging hail. i wouldn't be surprised if we saw an isolated tornado. the excessive heat is the other story, we have excessive heat warnings in the southwest, sure they can handle it, but when it's 13 degrees in phoenix, it's too hot even for that area and the national weather service is telling people to take precautions. drink lots of water. >> thanks so much, dylan. >>> rumors swirling about the condition of ailing nelson mandela. >>> plus, the d.e.a. agent who paid the ultimate price is honored. >>> and could solar flare send the earth back to the 19th century. that's coming up. >>> welcome back. nelson mandela remains in critical condition at a

after the very essence of the chaplain corps. i hope that we'll defeat this amendment. and just simply recognize we respect each other's rights, but there is a huge difference between the two sides when it comes to protecting kaplans -- chaplains. and the final thing i'll say is this has been a movement to try to take a lot of these valuable services that the gentleman talked about that chaplains do away from them as the air force itself has even tried to tell commanders that they can't even instruct the men and women under them of approved programs within the chaplaincy corps. so i hope that we will, again, stop this huge pendulum that has been swinging in, i think, the wrong direction. i hope we'll defeat this amendment and protect the chaplain corps as much as i think it needs to be protected. and with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> gentleman wields back. dr. win stop. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i seek to speak in opposition -- >> gentleman's recognized for two minutes. >> thank you. as a veteran who served in iraq and

the contractors are the employers, the web corps the turners, the kay hills, and without them, we could not employ our students, so with that strong support, that is how we have 23 students already placed. so a strong shout out for them as well. [ applause ] and the last partnership that makes the goal are all of the colleagues within the city family that help us in a number of ways including funding, support, and we work with them to identify the projects, that places the students on to just about every department that has anything to do with construction is involved in city build. the port, the airport, the public utilities commission, muni dpw, parks and rec, they are all vital contributers to city bill as well and make this thing go and additional and a new relationship that we started that we hope will be fruitful is our relationship with the san francisco unified school district. as we continue to look for ways to encourage young people to get into the construction industry. so all of that partnership is what makes city bill go and brings us here today for our 16 cycle. so i have

we had the marine corps, the navy, and the national guard all working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. we didn't give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, here's some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. so it was a very successful year. that's what we did as far as the field exercises. next year i don't know what's

i'm down with the cause. >> before orw corps? >> right after the peace corps.'c and listen, they say -- it's just sort of covering up women in this day and age, i don't understand why people, liberals embrace this and protect it. the enemy of our enemy is our friends? i'm confused. >> well, bill have you no evidence the billionaire organize jer doing it because he wants to add to his hairem. he is happily married and has five wonderful children. >> i've got great children, they're not wonderful that. is all of the evidence i need. >> wait a minute. >> what? >> it is interesting but when you say these are feminists this is a feminist perspective they havet(ñr. >> yes. >> yes. >> oh. >> good. >> i don't know why i brought it up. >> bradley manning you said manning shouldn't have gone to kiw -- wiki electric leaks. >> you know what? can i interrupt? i believe who is leaking sit the white house. glenn greenwald is coming from the white house? >> no. i think there is something fishy about the prisons out there. >> that might have been done to sort of identify whot

within the marine corps and the military, we talk about commander's sbept. that gets us past the flow chart diagram or the policy question, it gets to what truly is the outcome that the commander or the mayor in this case is looking for, and that allows everybody in the room to think beyond just the specific problem but to more the holistic solution to the outcome that we're looking for, in this case route clearance. we talked about how to filter information that comes into the coc my experience in disaster relief is the amount of information coming into a command post is overwhelming so processes have to be put in place so that the filter allows emergencies to be addressed appropriately, priorities to be resourced appropriately, and the routine to be put into something so that everyone is aware of it and if it becomes, it changes to one of the other categories it can be addressed. and, last, we talked about how to share that information not only amongst ourselves within that particular command goes, but across the city, outside of the city up to the state a

the contractors are the employers, the web corps the turners, the kay hills, and without them, we could not employ our students, so with that strong support, that is how we have 23 students already placed. so a strong shout out for them as well. [ applause ]

. >> reporter: the industry wants the army corps of engineers to do more dredging. but a noaa hydrologist says the problem is not enough rain and snow over the lakes in the winter and too much evaporation, fuelled by warmer water temperatures. >> evaporation is having a much more significant impact on the system than it used to. >> reporter: so basically, the precipitation can't keep up with the rate of evaporation? >> that's a good way to say . >> reporter: impacting boaters big and small. >> this island was totally underwater. >> reporter: russ clark runs a fishing business on michigan's west coast. now there are places he can't do. >> i think we're all hoping and confident that the water levels are going to come back. >> and keep the great lakes a source of pleasure and profit for america. anne thompson, nbc news, toledo, ohio. >>> we are back in a moment with the reason a lot of americans say they are driving in circles. >>> ignition and liftoff. liftoff of sds 7. and america's first woman astronaut. and the shuttle has cleared the tower. >> look at that grainy

tapping that phone, it's got to go to the ffisa cor ask for a warrant. >> has the fisa corp turned down any requests? >> the requests are surprisingly small, number one. numb beer two, folks don't go with a query unless they've got a pretty good suspicion. >> should this be transparent in some way? >> it is transparent. that's why we set up a fisa corp. >> it is transparent. transparent. it is an interesting word to describe the fisa corp that operates with total near secrecy. >> what do you think of me? >> the fisa court is also not a court in the way most of us understand. there are not two sides to every case and there's no one there to challenge what they claim through the fisa corp. and joining me to discuss the hearing is congressman dutch rufus burger. we're told more than 50 plots disrupted, ten of them homeland-based, but what's not entirely clear is how many of these attacks de ffinitively cod not have been done with more atar atta attacks, gumshoe attacks. >> let me give you an example. first thing we think is important to educate members of the congress why we need this prog

they got experience of what the marine corps has to offer. it was the smorgasbord of mill capability. as we contemplate the idea of medical surge and how do we deal with a thousand people in a hospital parking lot, we have to be creative. the only way we can do that is we have to know what are the options out there, what are the game pieces, what's the apps in the apps store? what can we ask for? by understanding some of these capabilities and looking beyond the obvious i think we're going to be able to develop some really cool medical surge plans and capitalize on the partnership between dod and the civilian world and i don't want to discount the other partners because this happens, this comes up every year and i have to say that it comes up every time we get lectured about there's the state, the state has resources, the feds, the other federal partners, they have resources, absolutely. when i say dod, please don't take it the wrong way, i'm encapsulating the entire family. when we throw a party, we go big. we don't do little things very oft

>> the peace corps. >> the peace corps, yes. i found them in the field when i was there. it is like this. there you are, a woman making a point. instead of making two points bring one week, we would you a much better thing. they bring in, they come back a few months later. but how do you like your hair? really nice. how many points are you making? two per week. i do not need to make war. why do you make just two? well, i make two, but i have more time with my friends. in our environment, you have to do more and more and more and more. making more they have more time to enjoy themselves and have a nice relationship with their friends, family, etc. learning values that we have lost. >> what do you think that we need to change? >> almost everything. we are simply, dramatically stupid. we know everything that should not be done. there is no one that does not know that. particularly politicians, they know what should not be done. but they do it. now, how do you change that? i do not know, i do not have the recipe. but that is the definition of stupidity. the stupid act is the

i would offer a little bit from an institutional perspective at the tactical level in the marine corps. that's an area where we could use some improvement. our forces deployed to the western pacific certainly understand this, and they pass it on among themselves. the forces we deploy from southern california and the east coast that float into theater understand disaster assistance and humantarian response very well. that hasn't quite migrated itself into the institutional arena in terms of forces stationed here in the united states as it would relate to defense support to civil authorities. i think that's primarily -- this is not a primary mission for us. it's something that we do pay attention to, of course, as we deploy overseas. not necessarily forces we have here in the states. we do understand immediate response, rolling out the gate to help our neighbors in an immediate nature, but i think not so much in terms of mobilization and deploying

still is maintained under the aegis of the corps of engineers. so the education was about building things, ports and bridges, not about combat, not about training. in these armies, they didn't even hold target practice. for the most part. something which comes to the -- as you remember from one part of the book i'm talking -- you calculate how many shots are fired versus how many actually hit a target? and the average is something like -- takes about 125 fired shots before you wing somebody. that's not a compliment to marksmanship. that's about how well i do shooting trap. and it's all a function of the lack of discipline. lack of training. just not professionals. and so that ineptitude means they never quite get things together for the knock-down blow. at it kind of like watching amateur boxing, where two people that might be good at slugging each other but don't know how to bring it all to a conclusion. that said, these were still armies that fought with the most extraordinary kind of raw courage. it awed ulysses grant at shilo, to see perfectl

the 18-year-old enlist ntd marine corps before graduating from high school but developed brain cancer. he is the 23rd person to be named an honorary marine. >> right before surgery, all of the recruiters at the station i was recruited out of came and stood guard by the door 24 hours before surgery. >> they provided these pictures he's in the the first marine in the family. his grandfather also served in the corps. >> tourism officials in australia put up a help wanted sign in hopes after tracting more young visitors and did they ever get a response. 330,000 people from 196 nations applied to be part of the best job in the world competition. 18 finalists competed for the jobs. and get this jorks chief funster. i applied. >> it's unbelievable. this is a life changing activity. i cannot believe it. >> blimy. >> the dream job only allows for a little while each will work six months earning 93,000 american dollars for efforts. >> time now for the next top scholar she's one of seven seniors chosen for exemptional achievement from academics and activities. each gets a $1,000 scholarship and

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and much of the marine corp. how much of an emphasis does this have to be or a standard training element that every single person in the force has got to go through? >> i think every person in the force has to at least have an understanding of the basic principals, should understand the concept of war among the people, and should have a familiar -- familiarity, experts particular knowledge, skills, cultural understanding, political skills, training skills and if there is one mistake i think we have made is that we have not institutionalized the training and advising skill set that i think is going to be a very important part, perhaps the most important part of what the u.s. army does in this century. >> let me just take a slight diversion and go to the question of, you know, because obviously any military operation, you know, as general petraeus ended his peach we don't get to choose the wars we go into. and enemies certainly have a vote in how those turn out. drones are a major part of our strategy in fighting t

let's restore funding for public services and let's give more money to the corps that are keeping their funding level. we are about $2 billion apart here. if you go back over the last two years, that's nothing. there is still a lot of differences hashed out in the next few weeks. >> they will reconcile or trying to reconcile because they need to pass a budget by june 15th. does governor brown have the upper hand in this? he is doing phenomenally well in public opinion polls. he is being referred to as the only adult in the room when problems need to be fixed. does he have the upper hand? >> you are right, he is enjoying this moment in the sun. every week, a big national magazine is writing a glowing profile. >> one long glowing profile. >> for governor brown, poll after poll shows the public backs him to direct more money to poor school districts and be conservative. governor brown sets the agenda. he doesn't get a budget if they don't vote for it. he still needs to play nice and give as much as he takes in the negotiations. >> the question is, i saw him at a new center that opened up a

because it's fox news and the rest of the press corps won't care because it's fox news. because ultimately it will come out because they're obliged to explain this to the press within 90 days. the fact there was a controversy the administration says we did tell them after 90 days, not two years later, which is what we finally found out. >> they might well have. you recall this was 2010. in 2010, fox and the white house were in a real battle. there was a lot of tension between the two of them. i think unless -- they might have indeed unless the a.p. subpoenas had not created this synergy between these two things. together, the press is pretty upset. so this thing is operating at several levels. you got the press upset here. you got the republicans thinking to perhaps tag the administration with these scandals. then there is the legal issue of whether eric holder lied or didn't lie to congress of the that's going to be the most -- >> paul: what do you think on that point, the truthfulness to congress? >> i think he was untruthful to congress for sure. but i don't think the