the coast guard learned to run those destroyers, the navy top and how. -- the navy taught them how. in world war ii they will be running their own destroyers, but their experience with those navy vessels helped the coast guard a lot for a future mission they did not know was coming. billard finished off the prohibition years for the coast guard. in world war i, he commanded the u.s. navy vessel, the marietta. showing again the coordination between the two sister services. harry hamlet, rear admiral. prohibition was over by the time he took command. in world war i, he commanded a u.s. navy base. that is how closely the sister services worked together. he moved the coast guard academy from the u.s. army base at fort trumbull in connecticut, to its present site, new london, connecticut. he commanded the uss marietta in 1919, in very heavy seas, he got that ship close to the u.s. s james that was sinking and in stormy waters, and through masterful seamanship they saved all of the u.s. navy crewmen on it. admiral russell waesche, the world war ii commander. they had courses together and

navy. the fleet of revenue cutters. in the coast guard, that is a boat 65 feet or longer and gets its name from the british. cuttersish have revenue supplementing the royal treasury, that is where the name comes from. among the many wars that the revenue cutter service was in, the civil war. here is captain john fowlkes of the u.s. revenue cutter service to he fired the first naval shots of the civil war in and theon harbor revenue cover -- revenue cutter service and the u.s. navy indication dangerous missions, blockade squads and other things together in the civil war. revenue cutter was built in 1900. that it has a stack which was coal powered and steam both methods of mobility had their advantages. among the many wars the marines were and where the -- were the seminole wars. the seminoles did themselves proud. hads 180 feet long and it deck guns and operated there. and theu.s. navy revenue cutter service from the war against britain together, they fought pirates together, the intercepted slave ships together and they

officially, the confederate navy has her on the list, official navy register, as the next ship to be officially commissioned. however, the war is winding down and the confederacy is collapsing. there is no crude for the -- there is no crew for the jackson available yet. during the battle of columbus, she sat at the navy yard. the navy guys never could come aboard and get her steam up. there wasn't enough men available to do this. it sat there during the battle and did nothing. it's a nice showpiece, so to speak. the next morning on the 17th, wilson's men came into the navy yard and they started burning everything. they know they can't leave a viable weapon like this behind them, so they stuff flammables all over the ship and they set it on fire and they cast it loose into the river. for two weeks, this vessel is slowly floating downstream the chattahoochee and burning. there is a debris field between here and the final wreck sites. it finally got caught in the bend of the river, and she sank. the water finally put out the fires, and we have what is left of her now. her length is 225

spent a career in the navy. he retired from the navy. he lives in the newport, rhode island signatuvicinity. gets his medical care at the naval station in newport. he went for his annual physical and looked for his navy physician, who wasn't there. where is my regular doc? >> he's been he's been reassigned to pensacola, florida. your new physician is a lieutenant commander. well, hugh doyle thought it was odd but he met his physician. he said, i notice you have a vietnamese name. can you tell me how your family got here? the doctor said, no, i really can't. he said, i came as a 1-year-old boy. my family fled vietnam. all i know is they came on a ship, but i don't know much about it because my parents never talk about it. my father is now disea deceased. my mother only speaks vietnamese and never talks about it. as things turn out, hugh doyle had a copy of the video in his car, "the lucky few." he went out and gave it to him. go home and watch this and see if it means anything to you. the next time he goes back f

so the navy -- the union navy expanded during the course of the war from maybe 40 or 50 ships on active service to, i think, over 600. and the vast majority of those were on the blockade, around southern ports. the blockade became much more effective as the war went on, because -- simply because the navy, the union navy, expanded so much. at the very beginning of the war, the first ship appeared on the blockade off of galveston the u.s.s. south carolina, appeared off galveston in july of 1861. it was just one ship to blockade not just galveston but the entire texas coast. of course, more came after that and it expanded. by 1864, there were typically a dozen union warships just off galveston. and so they took it very seriously. they devoted a tremendous amount of resources into enforcing the blockade. for the fast blockade runners the odds were still in their favor, even by the end of the war. they were getting through most of the time. the odds got a lot longer as the war went on. the blockade running could be hazardous. they were almost all privately owned vessels. most of them were pr

the single biggest change in the navy's interwar is airplanes. i don't see how you can get out of that. the world war to i navy, you see bits of everything else. you see bits of aircraft, but they are peanuts. what will airplanes mean? what when they do? and they will probably be a whole lot more effective in five years then they will now. the second thing with the u.s. navy -- the pacific as a whole different ocean. your of seen it already. it's a lot bigger. that means you can get lost. that means scouting is a whole different business. people learn to fight along longer ranges. there are questions about the implications of what that may be. the least implication, if you are going to fight long range, you have to have the air spotting. you can't kill anything with airplanes. you have to maintain some air control over a battle. or find some better way to do it. you can increase survivability. people do learn to serve underwater hits. if you get to port, you can't be fixed -- you will swiftly no longer be a ship. you will be in monuments -- and m

doesn't love the navy and the military, there is no way. is no way you can be truly successful. that is the most scary moment and most rewarding moment of your life. nothing compares to that. the navy yardh shooting, i lost civilian shipmates and contractors that were really the beginning of the power. that was just not fair. it was not right. we recently lost some shipmates. those are low points. i tell you the best days of my life were being out on an aircraft carrier and looking in their eyes and seeing that they -- this is what we need you to do. we will take care of it, you have this mission. those are the high points. we got issues, we got challenges. we will be fine. i'm going to do whatever darlene wants to do for a while. and then i'm going to look around and see what makes sense, what with the next chapter before us. a bit more control ofol my time if i cannot see if i can help out. vavago: he were e not interestd not a-- y are not in -- disinterested party when it comes to navy run. whether you are looking at this from an rv -- f

carolina navy, then a lieutenant in the continental navy. he runs aservice fairy -- runs a ferry in ten nessee. actuallyrragut would moved to new orleans, where he becomes a collector of the u.s. customs in new orleans be at inld move there in 1804 -- new orleans. he would move there in 1804. his real name is james glasgow farragut. what would happen is when george farragut is in new orleans, his will actuallyfe tend to his friend's father, who is suffering from yellow fever. his friend is david porter, the famous naval officer, whose father is head of the naval station at new orleans. what happens is david porter comes down with yellow fever. mrs. fairy get treats him -- mrs. farragut treats him. he dies, she contracts yellow fever, she dies. they have 11 children, so what is george farragut owing to do? david porter says i will take one of them. volunteers farragut and becomes the foster son of david nixon porter senior -- david dixon porter senior. and william porter, later captain of the u.s. navy. toragut becomes a midshipman in 1810. w

same.l wargaming is the the royal navy did some gaming. it wasn't the same as ours. i don't think it to them a lot of good. i'm not just tell you it is a get in, i tell you there is a particular way. the idea was you can only learn by doing. if you look through the records, i would beg you that everybody else who doesn't looks through the lectures. there are a lot of lectures, they are exactly what you want. i copied a hell of a lot of them. that is probably not what people learned. what they learned was what they got out of actually doing it. if you are trained in the sciences, for example, you will have the horrible experience of reading some text, you really think you know what you are reading, and then someone makes you do problems. ouch. that is a personal ouch. i was in the physics records. , what are you looking for nterwar?r -- i the single biggest change is airplanes. if you look back to world war i, you can see bits of everything else. , itus, and every other navy is what does it mean? the second thing for the u.s. navy is the pacific is a really different

carolina navy, then a lieutenant in the continental navy. following service he gets the sinecure of running a ferry in tennessee. george farragut would actually moved to new orleans, where he becomes a collector of the u.s. customs in new orleans. he would move there in 1804. i have to tell you, david glasgow farragut, his real name is james glasgow farragut. what would happen is when george farragut is in new orleans, his wife sarah will actually tend to his friend's father, who is suffering from yellow fever. his friend is david porter, the famous naval officer, whose father is head of the naval station at new orleans. david porter also. what happens is david porter comes down with yellow fever. mrs. farragut treats him and tries to tend for him. he dies, she contracts yellow fever, she dies. they have 11 children, so what is george farragut going to do? david porter says i will take one of them. so young james farragut volunteers and becomes the foster son of david dixon porter sr. that means he is foster brother to david porter, jr, late

the navy had not put money into fixing the place up. by 1949, the president had been here four times, and following the defeat of tom dewey, the navy realized the president would be coming back much more often. they hired the premier decorator of miami beach, and so the house but a remodel of 1949. designer made no consultation with the president. he simply wanted to create a timeless venue, something that would be acceptable to the guests that would be coming to see the president, and he picked colors that were popular at the time, solid on green walls, red., grays, tomato had 20 years of admirals living in it until 1974, so many of the things that had been done for truman were discarded. was our task to restore the house as it was. and although we had the records of what was bought, they did not necessarily tell us who it was from. so we found this fabric that is shown in the drapes and on the couch. it turned out to be a waverley print. none of us knew that. we happen to find a scrap of fabric on ebay. we found 200 yards of fabric. w

i would add and the congressman would know that hawaii is defended by the navy and the navy needs coal and there is coal and alaska. let's bring a railroad and headquarters will be in anchorage. that is why i call the book linking anchorage to this bid empire. not just about coal. it is about the economy and quality of life, it is about the navy. the navy is about commerce and the projection of american power and defense of american interests. anchorage, the founding of anchorage does have that big significance there. and so we will not talk about the background of these cartoons but you have plan earth looking on as president mckinley makes a decision about the philippines. and japan and britain and i think france wondering what uncle sam is going to do in relation to hawaii. i do not think many people in the world, the white world are paying attention to what is happening in anchorage. they are paying attention to the pacific. they can see a few empires, the french, the british. and two others on the rise -- japan and the united states. and some will know that this development in anc

navy's pricey plan to design and build a state-of- the-art sub to replace 12 of the current. >> the costs of the program has been estimated in the range of $100 billion, and the navy said it cannot pay for it out of its navy budget. >> reporter: at his senate hearing to be confirmed as joint chiefs chairman, general joseph dunford agreed, paying for a whole new fleet of subs out of the regular shipbuilding account would bust the navy's budget. >> what i can tell you with the degree of surety is that, were we to fund the ohio class replacement out of the department of the navy, it would have a adverse plan on the ship building plan and the estimates are between two and a half and three ships a year. >> the cost is some people will say is outrageous, i just say it's tremendous. >> reporter: naval historian and consultant norman polmar says either way you fund the plan, through the normal budget, or a special account it's unaffordable, and unworkable. >> if congress were to fund the navy strategic submarines out of a separate fund, tomorrow afternoon the air force would come in and say

carolina navy, then a lieutenant in the continental navy. following service, he runs a ferry in tennessee. george farragut would actually move to new orleans, where he becomes a collector of the u.s. customs in new orleans. he would move there in 1804. david farragut, his real name is james glasgow farragut. what would happen is when george farragut is in new orleans, his wife will actually tend to his friend's father, who is suffering from yellow fever. his friend is david porter, the famous naval officer, whose father is head of the naval station at new orleans. what happens is david porter comes down with yellow fever. mrs. farragut treats him. he dies, she contracts yellow fever, she dies. they have 11 children, so what is george farragut gonna do? david porter says i will take one of them. young james farragut volunteers and becomes the foster son of david dixon porter senior. and william porter, later captain of the u.s. navy. farragut becomes a midshipman to in 1810. he changes his name when he is detailed as a mid-shipman to david gl

nobody wanted the navy here in the first place. joe kennedy's own principle anxiety had to sources even the army would succeed before he had a chance to fly the mission or the war would end and one source was eliminated when two air corps missions failed miserably and then to have operation aphrodite until such time the new tester system was ready to replace said discredited system. the rationale aboard a robot bomb was twofold. radio control technology was limited. the system that the air force used was not designed to take off on its own and contrast the navy had succeeded to take off and land by radio control but it was far from foolproof. that brings up the second rationale no way would anybody trust radio remote control to guide a planeload of explosives off a military airfield that included densely populated cities. even london was not far. so kennedy is waiting to take off day after day goes by. and this mission is the robot plane has to be controlled by the navy by the to control planes. . . the party consisted exclusively

he volunteered for the navy in 1941. family influence led to an appointment or assignment in the secretary of the navy's office. the attack on pearl harbor however, caused the young ensign to take officer training and then to request assignment to the motor torpedo trading center. he commanded three pt boats from december 1942 to february 1943. and then, having been promoted was dispatched to the pacific. on august 2, 1943, kennedy's craft, p.t. 109, was conducting a nighttime patrol near georgia. what it -- when it was rammed by a japanese destroyer. despite reinjuring his back, he assisted the surviving crew members to reach a nearby island. the group was subsequently rescued and kennedy was awarded the navy and marine corps medal. when later asked how to explain his heroism, jfk said "it was easy. they cut my pt boat in half." after brief service as commander of another boat, he returned to the united states in january 1944, and filing extended treatment for his back injury, he was retired from active duty in late 194

i would add and the congressman would know that hawaii is defended by the navy and the navy needs coal and there is coal and alaska. let's bring a railroad and headquarters will be in anchorage. that is why i call the book -- lingering -- linking anchorage to this bid empire. not just about coal. it is about the economy and quality of life, it is about the navy. the navy is about commerce and the projection of american power and defense of american interests. anchorage, the founding of anchorage does have that big significance there. and so we will not talk about the background of these cartoons but you have plan earth looking on as president mckinley makes a decision about the philippines. and japan and britain and i think france wondering what uncle sam is going to do in relation to hawaii. i do not think many people in the world, the white world are paying attention to what is happening in anchorage. they are paying attention to the pacific. they can see a few empires, the french, the british. and to others on the rise -- japan and the united states. and some will know that this dev

had done that is the navy designation of the b24. with a radio controlled to descend and dive. and it would not be allowed even if it could to tell kennedy the airplane is loaded with 21,000 pounds of torpedo explosives and 347 pine creek's that they said was 12 times the explosive load of the single bomber the western first used three weeks earlier to take the aircraft in a designated pattern with a remote control private to fly into a hardened weapon facility on the coast of france after handing back off kennedy and a crew member would bail. at that point the mission was over before handing off control they would have to arm the explosive payload. joe kennedy arrived at the base which the navy shared a small section of the army air force right after for army missions to do this same kind of thing into said german facility to fail miserably and by the time he took off a total of six army air corps missions had failed with two killed in the arm was ripped off as he bailed. then it was joe kennedy's turn to try. embittered with the fa

how much the army and the navy hated each other in japan. they fought over the budget for patriotic reasons and they consider themselves alone all that was necessary to protect kokutai. we forget after the london a bunch of i --anese guys who thought were thought to have sold the farm were assassinated. almosternment was overthrown and risk replaced with a modern military government. we just do not understand it. i want to talk to some of this. that is part of the shaping. miracle, those things are really disasters that came before. they are not so much miracles. there is a long hard fighting, and let certificate, and bit ofion, quite a price - willpower. with the exception of the failed two, we have to review all of these events that led us to the of one darning disaster after another. the way that they happened was very fortuitous, but it was not planned. it was contingency. -- elementent helmet in history is too often missed. as the other speakers said, we know how it turned out they did not. that really lined up nicely, the atomic, and t

fleet like the eisenhower of the navy. but the admiral was blood dash had a dagger tattoo in an anchor on the other he had seven children with his wife and before the war he had a mistress if not every pore then quite a few. onshore the if he would treat and fight and curse like a sailor then show the next morning showing up for duty virtually an impaired. the admiral was hit mr. saying after pearl harbor when the going gets tough they call florida sons of bitches. but later he did not say that instead he wish he would have thought of it. but coming into our room of vice admiral and we are admiral with freezes would head for the door. his daughter said the heat was the most even tempered he was always in a rage. [laughter] not knowing much about strategy the air commanders like then head zero of the army air force and just discover the airplane a little while ago that the british had stayed out of his pacific ocean and. so the feeling was mutual. a staffer working for general marshall named white eisenhower wrote that he w

i am writing about the army. not to neglect the navy but that is what i know. boots on the ground kind of guy. what strikes me about the navy in the civil war, most important operations other than the blockade are wolverine operations. aground water navy to a great extent and the joint operations in the west, cooperation is joint action. full speed ahead, the united states navy to me as an army guy, it has a tradition that goes back to the continental navy which was small and had to be ferocious and so our navy traditionally has been a ferocious in harm's way navy. it was frustrating, didn't have a confederate navy to fight. actions around hampton roads, blue water brown water but the confederates rely on private years like the famous alabama the savannah. they are commerce raiders not interested in taking it out and get cornered off of cherbourg, for better because confederate have been sinking whaling vessels. it is a tough war for the navy in the sense that they don't get the glory the army does. it is a ground war and the naval blockade is essentials. winfi

the united states navy to me as an army guy has a tradition that goes back to the continental navy which was small and had to be ferocious. .. for the plan to sarah and but that is what won the war. the navy was good at delivering supplies. that doesn't sound very romantic, but they did. the naval cooperation he he's no interservice rivalry and with the james river fleet together they build a logistics city point. the fleet is a very fine job of supporting the army. so the cooperation is absolutely superb and the cooperation is good and then we get an interservice rivalry going up more and more on the navy versus the army and everybody hates the air force. one thing that we have progress on is the generals and admirals today need to remember it's not about your rank. they have to give the navy a little something three i'm really troubled by the budget squabbles but that's all subject. we have to all play on the same team because you know what the bad guys do a. >> why did you portray all of the generals accept grant as cursing and drinking as opposed to clean spoken and temperance people

the u.s. navy is now considering the possibility of allowing women into the ranks of the navy s.e. s.e.a.l. teams. the navy calls it the most mentally challenging physically challenging training in the world lasting 323 weeks. some of the challenges include running 200 miles in five days and physically training for 20-plus hours a day. less bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara starr and also joining us from new york, jonathan gilliam, a former u.s. navy s.e.a.l. and trained as a former fbi special agent. barbara, what prompted the u.s. navy to even consider allowing women to become navy s.e.a.l.s? >> reporter: wolf, what's been going on at the pentagon the last several months is a review of opening all combat jobs to women, women who volunteer obviously to serve this country and the u.s. military. the feeling for some time first set out by the former defense secretary leon panetta was open up all the jobs. let the women compete. stop keeping that ceiling in place. so all of the services have been looking at this, and they have been steadily opening up more and more jobs in t

. >> the landing at tarawa was a joint navy-marine corps operation. >> the navy delivered the task force, delivers the marines to long-range naval guns and carrier aviation and later ashore safely anddin good order, the marines say i'll take it from here. thank you very much. >> rear admiral "handsome" harry hill and major general julian c. smith. >> very, very competent officer. had the respect of thh senior officers and no doubt of the troops he ran into. >> smith relied heavily on 38-year-old colonel david shoop. his job was to mastermind the assault on how and when to attack the japanese. but first, he had to figure out how many there were and he did in it an unusual way. >> they found out how many men were defending by how many la treens there were. really? >> the small structures built over the water mean here are la treens. >> you can count theetoilet seats and figured an officer a seat to himself and a troop probably have to share maybe four or five of them. 4.5 to a toilet seat and came up with a total count of 4,400 people on the island and they were off by about 6 men. >> the

cannot supply power to the navy, to the navy installation because this is the question. what are you going to do about space? the navy got its power in houston and remains a viable candidate. this is one of the several brushes that they would have in the space age and richard has one of the other ones. >> he didn't do it by accident. it became rice university in 1960 and president whenever he would come down to houston kenneth would be their tour guide. it was his desire to put the patrol in houston. so he arranged for a thousand acres near clear lake and he promised the land for the space center building. albert thomas said this is what tipped the scale and mission control in houston. in exchange in 1962, he got money from nasa and that's where the program started because the original eight p. 91 request provided for the instruction of my texans and with federal money involved, that just wasn't going to work. for the board of trustees they had no appetite for the desegregation. but they did file the lawsuit could change the charter. they would remove the words from the

we have deployed the initial introducti diction of the f-35 m the navy side. in fact, almost about seven years when within planned at ioc. that forced us to keep our classic hornets, our partners use that term, around a lot longer. 6,000-hour airframe we had to extend 6 or 8,000 hours to keep it in the fight. that's pretty significant engineering feat to do that. so we didn't plan the -- you described the rhino slep or service life extension program, didn't plan it well for the wor through that right now in our aviation depos. the utilization, as both of us have talked about, the utilization of the force over the last decade-plus. so the hours we put on those classic hornets quickly drove them to those 8,000, 9,000-hour limits and forced us to induct them, you know, earlier than we expected. so we got a bit of a backlog at our depos. the capacity there is improving. we learned a lot about how we do the throughput there and as we've repaired those classic hornets that will apply to the program for our rhinos. so i think we've -- this is not a problem we've solv

on this issue before the end of the year, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news" at the navy yard in philadelphia. >>> the 50 and anniversary of the federal voting rights act. it was signed into law in 1965 it overturned barriers that didn't allow african-americans the right to vote. mayor michael nutter along with the committee of 70 with the urban league marked the anniversary with a news conference, the mayor talked about the voting act saying more work needs to be done. >>> the anniversary for a call to change the state's voting law representatives from several organizations held a news conference in wilmington to rally for a bill that allows people to register on election day. currently delawareans must register three weeks prior to an election. >>> coming up on "action news" tonight, we go live to south philadelphia for injury news from eagles training camp. >>> construction on a new building is underway and the farmers market is making a come back after a devastating fire last year. >> well, after dry and comfortable day, 85 today i'm tracking rain moving in and i'll have d

the third screening is by navy psychologist for social adaptability. the easy-going, study sailor fits best into the crowded conditions peculiar to submarine operations. host: usually the biggest thing i hear from people is that the submarines, they cannot work on them because they are so tight. true enough, the numbers will reflect that 97 out of 100 sailors cannot do this job for one reason or another. some people can be here in these tight quarters and does not bother them. some people it bothers a lot. most people it does. it is more than claustrophobia. there are a lot of technical details that at some point you have to learn all the details from stem to stern. you go before boards and make quiz you, do you know this system? and then you have a final signoff. ok, now was in officers country, what is considered officers country. to my right is the pantry, which is where the officers' food was served up on nice place with the captain and his men. they were served in here, the ward room where the captain and his men ate, did war strategy, and any soc

navy first took to the air. not only did our naval flyers create the aircraft carrier, it was they who protected divebombing. disposed about the flight deck so they can be quickly armed all manner of deathdealing objects. we have torpedoes and incendiaries, and what we call daisy cutters. some of our bombs are armor piercing. some have affects that prolong the effect of the bombardment hours after we delivered it. here are the new rackets that packed the same wallet as a three inch sail. because there is not much recoil, they can be fired from planes. we are told to scrub up to lessen the danger of infection in case we are wounded. as well as our bodies, most of us prepare our souls. always on the eve of battle, services are held in relays so every one of our crewmen has a chance. >> ♪ amen ♪ narrator: as the eve before battling fins, there is the usual waiting. again, we are reminded war is a mostly waiting. because all cooks and bakers must be at their battle stations, they work all night long cooking eggs

should the navy take possession of the coast guard's icebreakers? what would you say to giving up that mission? how important is it to have more than just a few icebreakers and to modernize the military assets in the arctic region now? how is the arctic mission changing given russia's new build-up there? >> we made probably once a week i see the cno in the tank. i have a seat with the chairman and other service chiefs. each year we have staff war fighter talks. we've had lengthy discussions about the arctic. i am confident the admiral doesn't want to take on an icebreaking mission. when you look at what does an icebreaker need to do in the 21st century? clearly it needs to break ice and support a scientific mission. russia is militarizing the arctic. they turned the arctic into an area of access denial. if you look at an icebreaker as you look into the future, if you look at modular systems, make sure you reserve space, weight and power so you can put navy type systems in an ice environment to protect u.s. sovereignty up in the arctic domain. those

the united states navy had a different view. the navy had been -- for four decades. they knew what this war was all about and they knew how to end it. in the course of that for decades of study, one of the most fundamental principles they came up with was that it would be absolute folly to invade the japanese islands. but the japanese -- that the japanese would muster defensive forces much greater than any force the u.s. could project across the pacific. that the terrain of japan, everything that was not soaked was deep, therefore american advantages -- all that would be negated by the to read. and this was a perfect recipe for massive casualties. casualtieslieved were a critical issue that would undermine support for the war. so the navy's alternative was a campaign of blockade and bombardment. by bombardment, they were thinking both of ships by sea and aerial bombardment. by blockade, they meant something which had not been grappled with. naval blockades have been a littermate instrument of warfare for centuries. but under a legal regime, provided that although the

. >> so those are the rangers. let's talk about the navy s.e.a.l.s. you've done a lot of great reporting around the navy s.e.a.l.s. let's go to what admiral john greenert said. quote, why shouldn't anybody who can meet these standards be accepted? the answer is there is no reason, so we're on a track to say, hey, look, anybody who can meet the gender non-specific standards, then you can become a s.e.a.l., his words. from what you know, how soon do you think they might make that break into the gender barrier for navy s.e.a.l.s? >> they have until january 1st to figure out whether they're going to open it. the navy has said they're not going to seek any exemptions, which means they're not going to say, we don't think women should be in the s.e.a.l.s. the navy is going to let it pass without an exemption, and that will be at the end of september is their deadline like it is for all the other services. after that it goes to special operations command. the special operations command can ask for an exemption. if they don't or if the defense department doesn

this was a job for the navy. the first engagement was fought at night. ♪ onshore, everybody sweated it out and from g.i. to general. are heaviest artillery was turned around from -- toward the sea. they looked big. -- they our carriers put the sting of death into the gulf area japanese fighters and bombers reinforced their cstring. -- sea strength. some of our laptops, swallowed by flames, there planes still aloft, running out of gas. captured strips were still wet, but not as wet as ocean. meantime, the third engagement. floating wreckage and floating japanese, we had one a naval battle. ♪ >> battle one, beachhead secure. but to the infantry, it was just another day to keep pushing. first -- theof the speed of the first the days are gone. front-pagewrong t headlines anymore. you march in mud. you eat in mud. you rest in mud. you sleep in mud. and as long as you know -- as man remember war, they will remember mud. when you're hit, guys take care of you. you're kept alive, if it is possible. this is the battle

high, i'm from inside the navy. could you give us some insight -- dohat you think the you see it -- the aviation makes for the future. mike shoemaker: i'm not sure of the design. that falls into my counterparts lane. and have ourepared acquisition program and the program including integration into whatever that platform may be. that will be the fire scout as well. i am with aviation week and talking about the need to extend the life and the problems of readiness and the problems of the classic cornet, is it correct that the department of the navy plans to bring in f 35 at a slightly less than one squadron per year in the 20 20's? the next part of my question is that leaves us with dependence on been able to slap the super hornet at a very high rate. how can we avoid the problems we have had with the classic cornet's, that's not gone as planned. how do you avoid that trap? had he keep those problems -- squadrons full? mike shoemaker: that's a great question. peter daly: did everybody here the question? we are in the:

the service's top officer told the navy times if women can pass the grueling six-month seal training they should be allowed to serve. he made his comments after a comprehensive review of women in combat roles. but a navy admiral tells abc news that no final decision about women in the navy seals has been made. >>> and a significant step forward in the army, as well. this was way very big one. two women completed ranger school. >> it's the history-making soldiers and they will graduate on friday during ceremonies in georgia. here to talk about it is marci gonzalez. ♪ i want to be a ranger >> for the first time ever, two women can proudly call themselves army rangers. >> it's history. you know, we're always evolving. the army is number one in making history. >> reporter: earning their place in the elite ranks. >> major. >> reporter: completing the same grueling combat training course as the men being tested right alongside them. >> the standards are exactly the same for male and female ranger students. >> reporter: they started the tough ranger test back in april along with 17 other

the pd for why one, that the the navy used was pretty much brand-new, the reason it was used, both of these at aircraft's quite sturdy, but the real reason was it was the biggest thing they had. you could just pilot full of explosives. one of the problems they had was that these planes weren't intended to carry very expensive loads but in the bombay, and the bottom of the plane there are stacks and stacks of weights that were piled up to the overhead, there is a real problem implying these planes with the center of gravity being altered. there were problems, this was a mission that was done in the same spirit as jimmy doolittle tokyo raid at the beginning of the war. it was was done in a kind of improvised way and taking weapons that were not intended to be use this way and using them, in in the hopes that it would work. in fact, the air force one and to keep this program going and use it against japan because they figured it would save pilots lives during what they thought would be the invasion of japan. >> was the celeb attempt, or were they ever successful in attacking the missile

they are enjoying themselves at the surprise location at the navy yard. take a look behind me you can see how organizers explained it into dining experience. if people cannot prove it's a rain or shine event. >> fourth annual dinner en blanc may have been damp. this is where it originated 30 years ago. >> it's a special place in history we wanted to show it off and what's happening now the great development here. >> wearing ponchos and holding umbrellas preferably in white or clear, 4500 people dined in the rainfall. >> it's fine comes without rain or shine. >> look at all these thousands of people out there. it has not bothered us much. we're just glad to be here. >> the hot ticket has plenty on the waiting list everyone must wear white and come prepared. >> we have chairs and table and white linens and dishes. >> yep with everything. place setting, food and of course, wine. ambiance and secret location have these young ladies shookd traveling to several sit questions for the elegant experience. >> it's a little of anticipation. trying to get to where it

navy steamers around cuba. two on the south coast, two on the north. the purpose was to intercept american flavors going into the island. in the spring -- american going intoslavers the island. in the spring, they intercepted slavers. if you weeks later they intercepted the bogota. each ship had roughly 500 people. of navy crews took control the slave ships. they towed them here to key west. key west was the nearest u.s. port to cuba. over that three or four weeks. 1432 african people. the crews were jailed here. the ships were seized and auctioned. , the africanen people were housed here on the 1860d for the summer of until something could be figured out. they were taken charge of five the u.s. government. a man named fernando marino build housing for them. they build a compound. -- built a compound. it was on a southwestern shore of the island. sleep, aa place to hospital, kitchen. those people lived for those until an that compound answer could be figured out. we do know a little bit about the people that were here in key west. shipsw that two of th

shall i tell the president you cannot supply power to the navy? to a navy installation there because the negro question. and what are you going to do about space? the navy got its tower and houston remained a viable site candidate. now this is just one of the several brushes that houston would have on silver rights in the space age and richard has one of the other ones. >> probably made his most moving speech. he did not do it at rice by accident. the rice institute became rice university in 1960 and the school's president was a man name kenneth. it was kenneth desire oh -- to get nasa control in houston. the school president, he arranged for a thousand acres near clear lake. congressmen said this is what tipped the scales and put mission control in houston. in exchange in 1962 rice got some money from nasa and that's where the problem started because william original bequest provided for the free instruction of white texans. with federal money involved that just was not going to work. the board of trust -- they filed a separate suit. they filed a

not only will it be for airmen but also the families. >> for the navy the answer is yes, also. the same thing for the fleet and family service centers. >> from a v.a. perspective we deal a lot with suicide. the deaths we have right now is about 18 veterans per day that commit suicide in the united states. one thing we are particularly concerned about is that transition for children when they're leaving active duty going to private sector. when i was in high school, my dad retired from the air force and that was a nightmare. i never fit into the new school and it probably delayed my college for four years. i was a mess but we had a strong family. i don't know the figures, i heard yours. i am concerned that the figures for the people who leave the military, i don't know if anyone is keeping those figures and that is something that we need to think about and worry about. how do we handle that transition for the children? >> good point. the follow-up to that would be, what do you believe is the best way to harbor resilience through all of the deployments and transitions and reinteg

it's really good timing that the rangers are having with this and a couple days later the navy saying, you know, we're on that path as well. it's good news. >> where do we stand right now as it relates to ground combat? obviously when people hear this door opening in the navy s.e.a.l.s as women graduate with the army rangers, where does that debate stand now? >> reporter: so in early 2013, the department of defense announced we're going to lift these combat exclusions for women. they will have time to lift them if they like, and if they don't want something open, we'll go over it and see if we can come to a compromise. over the last couple years, the army has opened some spots for women, the air force really only has one spot left that is in their special praoperations as well, and the navy as well at this point only have certain places open for women except for s.e.a.l.s and combat roles. >> you mentioned the branches can request this waiver to exclude women by january 1st, but they must provide a justification for blocking women. do these justifications potentially boil down to what

the new guards are expected to be in place by mid-october. the navy is the first branch of the u.s. military to announce that it will guard its off-base facilities. the e.p.a. is cleaning up and apologizing for an ongoing toxic spill in a colorado river. the animas river, in the southwestern part of the state, has filled with a soupy, orange- colored fluid. the problem began wednesday when an e.p.a. crew cleaning up an inactive gold mine accidentally caused a million gallons of wastewater to flow into a creek that connects to the river. today, the mine was still discharging water contaminated with arsenic, lead, aluminum and copper. the e.p.a. is warning people and pets to stay away from the river as the spill heads downstream toward new mexico and utah. officials have released clean water from a nearby dam to dilute the metals in the river, and they are building a retention pond to redirect polluted water. american swimmer katie ledecky has won her fourth individual gold medal at the world championships in russia. the 18-year-old maryland native took the 800-meter free-style today

the air force plans to follow suit in 2016. the navy in 2019. what does it mean if the marine corps declares ioc? >> it's a sham. that's what it means. the program has been embarrassing and they are just at the point to say, we are going to take whatever we get. >> when we come back a closer look at the marine corps version of the f-35 and a test pilot's complaint that the plane is a dog in a fight. readiness of the f-35 for combat, including the marine corps version. do you think this plane is combat ready? >> no, absolutely not. that combat capability is years away, in my book. >> the marine corps version of the plane has safety problems, some so severe they could have flight critical effects. >> let's look at why this airplane is so dangerous to the pilot. >> okay. former engineer says beyond safety issues, the f-35 is also crippled by flaws which limit its utility in combat. problems stemming from the design requirements of the marine corps. the marines want a so-called jump jet, able to accompany troops on the lines. >> the airplane could r

the continental navy was disbanded. the last ship was auctioned off in 1785 so while we emerged as victors from the revolutionary war, we were very much a bankrupt nation. in our first secretary of treasury alexander hamilton probably a champion of the understatement said if we had ten sentinels poefed at our ports might they do some good for the prosperity of our nation. a tariff act was passed before that, but you had pirates. you had people bypassing our tariff laws and so quite honestly we're a maritime nation but without any maritime governance whatsoever. so alexander hamilton had this vision in that we would charter ten revenue cutters and then he wrote a letter to each one of those commanding officer. he wasn't so big on specifications of those ten ships. he said somewhere between 36 40 feet, and by the way each one shall cost $1,000 apiece. he sent these commanding officers out to build them. the first up came in at $2,500. two and a half times its initial acquisition cost. today our acquisition program, our to

an expansion of the air force commitment on hokkaido, both by the navy and army, was initiated after u.s. forces invaded the mariana islands in 1944. there was a very large assortment of combat and logistical support elements from all the services on hand, non-divisional antiaircraft. artillery supply. etc.. the number of military personnel ultimately demobilized by the u.s. ninth court and 77 infantry division on the island totaled a men291= 290 1000, 947 291,947 men. this did not include the 416 police. how about some what if's. events in progress were proving juneorst of the marshals morning, and any move against japan itself would not take place in a political article medic wave. what would've happened if stalin in a fit of rob otto -- bravado went ahead with the operation and the japanese refused to be captured. had notrial government actually surrendered yet, and although a truth and successful military to military negotiation had been carried out with the americans, many of its troops continued to try to fight their way to safety and protect the roughly million and a half japa

the air force plans to follow suit in 2016. the navy in 2019. what does it mean if the marine corps declares ioc? >> it's a sham. that's what it means. the program has been embarrassing and they are just at the point to say, we are going to take whatever we get. >> when we come back a closer look at the marine corps version of the f-35 and a test pilot's complaint that the plane is a dog in a fight. >> the u.s. marine corps declared its version of the f-35 ready. it's ready to go to fight america's wars and defend american troops. but critics including some in the pentagon, say it has a long way to go before it can match the proven performances of the f-15s and 16s. tom christy served as a senior adviser for weapons testing does not mince words about the readiness of the f-35 for combat, including the marine corps version. do you think this plane is combat ready? >> no, absolutely not. that combat capability is years away, in my book. >> the marine corps version of the plane has safety problems, some so severe they could have flight critical eff