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  • As a Veteran of the US invasion of Cuba, 1962.

    You may remember President Kennedy stopped that war. Cold. I would like to know why Obama

    can't end the Afghan war & be nice, like JFK did?

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  • Ensign, from Noxubee... in NZ now. This is not about old times. I have a suggestion.

    The oil leak MIGHT be addressed by a change of temperature.

    Use something quite cold (liquid N2?) pushed through a pipe that folds back on itself so that the venting gas from the N2 remains outside the hole.

    The oil itself becomes the plug. This could let you do something else.

    That's it.

    Hope you get lucky with that one. We need some good news.

    respectfully

    BJ Chippindale

  • I just had to extend 9 months over my 20 year retirement date in order to transfer my GI Bill. I originally paid $100 for 12 months when I was an airman basic 17 years ago. I am working with people now who declined the GI Bill years ago, and now they get the new one free and because they are "retirement eligible" they have no extra time to give as well. The VA should have come up with 1 rule: give 20 years of service @ get to transfer the GI Bill. Not the 2009-2012 retirement "eligibility rules"

  • wow i never new anything about that. the new gi bill is better and if you served after 2001 you qualify for it. 3 years total active service qualifies for 100%.

  • there was never a better time to be in the military than when bush was in office.

  • I keep hearing from Michael Yon that there is a sever shortage of Helicopters. Is that being addressed?

    Thank you for your service!

    Steve

  • I hope he explains why I just had to extend 9 months beyond my 20 year mark to transfer my GI Bill

  • transfer your gi bill?

  • for all of you writing comments. i spared the general some time. watch my video. my question is at the end.

  • Sir, I received a coin from you when you came to kabul earlier this year. I was on PSD-B and did work with JVB who moved you. I was with Brigadier General Ierardi under CSTC-A at the time. Thank you for your service sir.

  • i wish you people qould quit writing stupid comments. robots that shoot wihtout humans monitoring them? what the hell is that? and fighting for muslims? it has nothing to do wiht being muslim. where the hell have you been. ekimadams. peace does not occure naturally and in case you didn't notice there wasn't peace before we even got there so to all of you, if you haven't been there. shut the hell up.

  • Ive got one for ya mullens! How in the hell are we gonna finance all the wars when the country is bankrupt?

  • Admiral: What is the DoD's position on operating autonomous armed robots on the battlefield? Is the U.S. moving toward a state where robots will be authorized to shoot without a human monitoring them?

  • why would youw ant to know that and robots cannot tell an insurgent from an innocent civilian. seirously dude. come on.

  • Chairman: do hatreds ever cease by hatreds or is it by love alone that they cease?

  • hatreds. wow yoru ignorant. we don't ahte muslims. the military is not allowed to say anything about the quhran or muslims or disrespect the muslim culture. it is punishable my UCMJ.

  • I want to know what is being done to get the DOD Homeowners Assistance Program up and running. My husband is stationed at Ft. Bliss and we just got an offer on our home in Boise but we're going to be $31,000 short at closing. We are struggling to get a personal loan to cover the shortage. Somebody needs to step up to the plate and help military families in this situation.

  • this is the only legit question i have read.

  • Thank you! I hope Admiral Mullen's staff will choose our video question to be addressed by the Admiral!

  • ekimadams  needs to submit to islam. It's all the rage they say

  • Admiral Mullen writes this of America's duty towards the Muslim world: Only through a shared appreciation of the peoples culture, needs and hopes for the future can we hope ourselves to supplant the extremist narrative.

    Or we could just stop killing their children. Stop occupying their countries. Mullen is right, actions do speak louder than words. So, just as an example, we should stop threatening Iran with military action. We should stop supporting Israel's threats against Iran.

  • With all due respect Admiral, you are going down the old hearts and minds path. When people hate you they hate you. But we hired you to do what the military does best...kill people and break things....then get out. It seemed to work just fine in Japan and Germany. We can try to get them to like us after we defeat them. The problem isn't people who hate us, its those who believe we can all sit down and have a big Kum Bah Ya. History says differently. It doesn't work. Just kill them and come home.

  • OK fine ask these FORMER MUSLIMS they will know the truth because after all they were part of the Muslim faith FOX News (hat tip Laura) Somali Islamist insurgent fighters beheaded seven people accused of abandoning their religion.

  • ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE, just ask Daniel Pearl. Oh wait he doesn't have a head. OK just ask

    Nicholas Berg. No he doesn't have a head either. OK ask Jack Hensley, oops sorry he cant talk he doesn't have a head. OK this guy will tell you that Islam is a peaceful religion, tell em Eugene Armstrong. What? they did what? ummmmm sorry Eugene cant talk right now seems he doesn't have a head.

  • And I agree with the others in regards to Israel. My wife and daughters are Jewish, but when we watch the news, alkl we can do is shake our heads and ask ourselves, why the blind allegiance. Will we sell our children's futures to blindly support Israel in their vengeful oppression of the Palestinian people? Why?

  • I'm a fairly liberal civilian from Florida and all I can say is thank you to whoever promoted Admiral Mullen. I wish we could clone him and have 10 more of him.

    After a decade of Bush-ism, it's nice to hear intelligent and thought provoking comments coming from the pentagon, instead of "Does it shoot?" and "Does it kill?".

  • 2 ) I've already mentioned this, but we must stop being so devoted to Israel. We must try and work with Palestinians to give them rights to their homes. We need their cooperation more than anything to find bin Laden and the 198 members of Al-Qaeda and bring them to justice. This can not be accomplished while occupying their land. A side note: we should use the word 'haribah' instead of 'jihadists' which is actually a compliment.

  • I want to cut down to the two most important things I think the military must do:

    1) Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan. The reason there is any Al-Qaeda there is because we're there. Part of bin Laden's stated mission is to spread Sharia law, yes, but it is also to drive out occupiers of Palestinian land. It is this side that has begun to appeal to more Muslims who view the U.S as invaders. Also we should approach Al-Qaeda not through the military but go back to a police tactic.

  • Something I want to emphasize. I know you can't do all these things and it will take the efforts of lots of people. Mostly, I think you should be sure the rest of the government is aware of these problems and concerns.

    5) Stop firing missles at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. It is eerily reminicsent of the bombing of Cambodia which created perhaps the only conditions for the Khmer Rouge to come to power. Stopping the rockets should be a top priority.

  • 4) The C.I.A must go. Anyone who has studied it closely and looked at its history knows that far from being able to provide important intelligence, it more often serves as counterproductive. Operation Chaos, MKULTRA, the Sept. 11th coup in Chile, Operation Condor, Bay of Pigs, etc. Getting rid of the C.I.A would of course mean putting something in its place. Perhaps something along the lines of how it was originally concieved by Truman. A secret news network to keep informed about the world.

  • Enoemen, Your right man we should release those poor terrorists and go after the suns o bitches who tried to get information from them that might hinder thier objectives( destroy western civilization). I mean seriously if we would just be nice to them they will be nice to us, why cant people see that. NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS BUT ALMOST ALL TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS!!!! Wait what did I just say?

  • As long as the government continues to spy on Americans, he government should no longer be allowed to keep secrets from its people. A declassification of all government documents that have been sealed away for "security reasons" sould be released now under the Freedom of Information Act. More often than not this has been used to hide incompetence and corruption.

  • This brings me to my next point.

    3) There ought to be a full investigation into the torture and abuse of detainees. There ought to be prosecution for George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, lawyers who twisted the law and people in those stupid think-tanks. Also don't listen to anything Henry Kissinger says, he's wanted for crimes all over the world. Of course you people will never hold these people acountable but the least you could do is start having more open government.

  • During my research I was also shocked to find that according to Jack Clooney, a 25-year-FBI veteran who was part of a CIA-FBI joint task force that discovered a list of members of Al-Qaeda in 2002 that came up to 198. That does not speak well for Bush saying in his speech that there were over 400 people at Guantanamo Bay, not to mention thousands of others who were arrested. According to Clooney "If they were not radicals when they came, they were when they left."

  • 2) You may also want clearly define the enemy. War on Terror is a term that has come to cause the word "terrorism" to mean anything and thus meaning nothing. Perhaps we ought to focus on the Sunni fundamentalists called Al-Qaeda. Let's not include the secular dictatorship of Iraq, the Shiite government of Iran, Syrias Assad family dynasty, Lebanese Shiite militants of Hezbollah, Palestinian Sunni militants of Hamas, and a hodgepodge of other Islamic radicals around the globe.

  • I would like to mention an incident that happened on June 8th, 1967. This is the attack on the U.S.S liberty which resulted in the deaths of 34 and wounded 171 of a crew of 297. You are no doubt aware of this as you are in the Navy. This is a relatively unknown attack due to the cover-up by Congress and the Johnson Administration but it is quite well-documentated that Israel deliberately attacked the ship and attempted to murder its entire crew. We don't need friends like that.

  • I have been researching this topic as hard I could and have some humble suggestions.

    1) Something that might help with gaining some trust is to stop being fanatically devoted to Israel. Many Palestinians have been forced out of their homes and left to die in the streets by the Israelis. About six million in total are refuges scattered all over the world and hundreds of thousands were massacred for refusing to be pushed out of their homes according to Iqbal Tamimi on Middle East online.

  • Why are we still in Afghanistan.

  • Dear Sir,

    Thank-you for this opportunity. These problems are very deep and will take a very long time to make even slightly better. Both of my parents are retired from the Navy and I have been a volunteer at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda Maryland, for two years since I was sixteen. I had little opinion on these events, until I began to see the price our people in uniform must pay and like many others wondered if the invasion of Iraq and even fighting in Afghanistan is worth it.

  • The real victory lies in winning the hearts and minds of the people. Until we accomplish that we have not won the war.

  • I would like to know what is being done about ensuring 'deployment fairness.' Why is it that some soliders do five back to back deployments while other soldiers never deploy? If a soldier has not deployed at least once then he/she should not be permitted to go to a school or be sent to a non-deployable position. There must be a way for the military to keep track of who has and has not deployed and give out assignments accordingly.

  • Dear Sir,

    Instead of launching missiles which often times kill innocent civilians (even if they are aimed at militants from the Taliban and Al Qaeda) how about sending our troops in for some face to face combat?

    How about utilizing most of our efforts in preventing the taliban from harming the law abiding muslim citizens we heavely depend on?

    Please, stop spending my tax money on expensive missles or fancy jet fuel.

    We need our troops to quit flickering around with joysticks and grow up..

  • we have tons of face to face combat. and for telling our troops to grow up, how about you growing some balls and go fight with the scouts and infantry.

  • Dear Sir, Nice idea, but I don't think that this forum will do anything to correct the screwed-up foreign policy decisions (which stem from our even more screwed up domestic addiction to foreign oil) and that now poor soldiers have to try and fix. If you were honest, you would tell the American people that defending the current "American way of life" is too costly in blood and treasure.

  • we have a trade deficit. which has nothing to do with the military moron. tell your oil companies which you buy gas from to quit buying overseas oil. you pay for their gas, therefore you suport them.

  • Dear Sir: My son is currently serving on So Afghanistan. Can you tell me why we are not sending more troops there to help these men? I feel that we need to take care of business or get out of there. I am worried.

  • chalker 97: yes you need to take care of business....your own damn business in america. GET OUT of "there" is the only way to go. And get out of Iraq while you are at it. Oh, and Pakistan and....

  • Admiral Mullen, as a Canadian citizen I often watch about my own country's actions in afganistan, and by geographical proximity the US forces as well.

    My question is, US airstrikes are used for close air support (CAS) of many ISAF countries and afgani army units, however they cause much collateral damage to civilians living in the immediate area. And they cost enormous amounts of money to consistently operate. In your opinion how do the benefits of airstrikes outweigh the obvious negatives?

  • if we are going to dialouge how about starting with reality, "collateral damage"? No, killing people. Call it what it is please. We are not objects and these coined terms and phrases are only exist to confuse americans and dehumanize those you kill. We won't get anywhere until you conceive we are HUMAN!

  • Dear sir:

    If you expect me to believe that 9/11 was not an inside job, I will eat my hat.

  • Most Esteeemed defender of our nation Admiral mullen,First off i would like to thank you for serving our country. The question I have for you sir is if there is evidence to show without a reasonable doubt that pour nation is being overthrown from with in by enemies of the nation,our sworn enemies who have said they will overthrow our nation without firing a shot,who use propaganda and lies and deceptions as well as murder to bring about our governments destruction will you defend our people?

  • This a great idea; and opens the door to one of the highest ranking military officials in the United State military. I will definitely be submitting my questions. It is ground root events like this that allow the military to grow and develop. I am a huge supporter of this idea and of AFAP.

  • Props on the digital outreach.

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