welcome to the podium michael g caldwell, who is the chief officer of the medal of honor foundation. mike? [applause] mr. caldwell: thank you. it is a pleasure to be with you this morning. we thank you. we thank you for the decision you have made at a very young age to serve our great country in uniform. it is an important decision. it is a critical decision. it is a decision that will probably be one of the most important you will ever make in your life, and we need you. we not only need you for the skills that you bring, but for the leadership that is inside of you. because we always have plenty of infantrymen and pilots and public affairs officers like i was and my wife was, but we will never have a glut of leadership. yet we will always take that. so thank you for what you're doing. in the essence of time, i will introduce our medal of honor recipients, but i will not go into a lot of detail about what they did. you can see their stories online at themedalof honor.com, and i encourage you to check that out. but i will say one thing about all gentlemen sitting before you, that they no

introduce my wife also who is here today, retired colonel marsella thompson caldwell. >> for these young people who are about to enter the military, how important -- how wornt was your family and your career and what lessons did you learn that you would like about that that you would like to provide to them about taking care of the family while you're in the military? >> our problem was our draft. right now you might not be thinking about it but you will be married and you will have families. that's what is great about the united states. we can be in the military and have families. families are what we fight for. what we stand strong for. to protect. i've been married for 55 years. my wife was with me when i was a young green berets. actually private first class. she is here today. it's been tough times. you've got to remember that. but you do whatever you can to make sure your family is on that side of the plate. and it is devastating on families when you leave in the middle of the night and don't come back for six months. so you always have to stay prepared. you got to remember, family

commander, u.s. pacific air forces. the honorable kirk caldwell, mayor of the city and county of honolulu. the honorable bernard carbajo, mayor of the county of hawaii. the honorable mayor of japan. the honorable hirohisa ishibashi, mayor of japan. members of the consulate corps, senior executive service and all other flag and general officers, elected and appointed officials, business and community leaders, welcome. [applause] nestled along the waters of the halal the stream is the -- lava stream is the pearl harbor visitors center where more than a million and a half guests come each year to learn the history of the pacific war. the national park service is proud stewards of three memorials dedicated to uss arizona, uss oklahoma and uss utah. collectively, these and other memorials represent those who were lost on december 7, 1941. over the years we have collected oral history interviews of hundreds of pearl harbor survivors, both military and civilian, other world war ii, as well as japanese americans with ancestry incarcerated during the war. that library of recollections giv

think. and caldwell talks about how the roads in the wilderness were still moist and spongy to the step. hardee, this is atlanta, georgia, y'all. it's hot, dusty red clay. cavalry service. i've allude fd to the fact that hardee did not do well after he brought in the intel about max flank in the air. the service to the assault was mediocre. jeb stewart and fitz lee brought in the intel that the 11th corps was in the air and helped find guides and maps to direct jackson's column. and accompanied it all throughout. general hood did not help when he ordered wheeler off so that hardee was plumbing through the woods on his own while fitz and lee especially stayed with jack's column and directed him to the point they could see the yankee end of the line. >> luck. that unquantifiable but certainly present factor everywhere on the battlefield. as jackson's forces are marching across his front, some of the 3rd corps soldiers are able to see rebels off in the woods and report it. sent the reports and the intel up the chain of command. as sears points out in his book, no one responded. on the

podium michael g caldwell, who is the chief officer of the medal of honor foundation. mike? [applause]

, former commander, u.s. pacific air forces. the honorable kirk caldwell, mayor of the city and county of honolulu. the honorable bernard carbajo, mayor of ohio. honorable mayor of japan. the honorable hirohisa ishibashi, mayor of japan. consulate corps, senior executive service and all other flag and general officers, elected and appointed officials, business and community leaders, welcome. [ applause ] >> nestled along the waters of the lava stream is the pearl harbor visitors center where more than a million and a half guests come each year to learn the history of the pacific war. three memorials dedicated to "uss arizona," uss oklahoma and "uss utah." collectively, these and other memorials represent those who were lost on december 7, 1941. over the years we have collected oral history interviews of hundreds of pearl her better survivors, both military and civilian, other world war ii, japanese ancestry incarcerated during the war. that library of recollections gives us the opportunity to share the stories of those who witnessed, fought, and died during the attack on oahu, or who were

. >> we are looking for effective compliance programs here. i think leslie caldwell called it, "ticking the tire particul" regularly." the senior leadership provides support for it. there is a compliance officer have authority? does the compliance office have resources? are training programs accessible? are they frequent, comprehensive? are there rewards for compliance and disincentives for noncompliance? these are things we drill down on to get at whether compliance is real or not. >> i heard the phrase paper tiger which is the prosecutor's way of sloughing off the compliance program. that's a paper tiger. it didn't catch this. how good could it be? which is a challenge because if it's a good program, why didn't it catch this particular type of misconduct? you have to be prepared to answer that question. a skeptical prosecutor will always ask that question. >> thank you all for your attention. i'm sure if you have questions, the panel will be happy to answer them afterwards. thank you, panel. >>> good afternoon. we'll go ahead and get started for our session since we are behind time. w