Ask The Chairman: A Virtual Town Hall

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, is taking your video questions here through August 31st. Got a question about the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, military families, warrior care, the new GI Bill, or anything else about the U.S. military? Just click video response and upload your question, or make your own video and send it to DoDvClips by midnight August 31st...Admiral Mullen will select the best questions, and respond right here in his next podcast. This is your chance to get the straight scoop from the man at the top of the U.S. military...record your question and send it in today.

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[manreekez]

Props on the digital outreach.

[nickelnm]

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.

[Paul Kangas]

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?

Youtube: paul8kangas

[tohunga64]

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

[takthekak]

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"

[Steve G]

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

Thank you for your service!

Steve

[takthekak]

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

[mariannaross]

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

[bartacus1704]

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?

[daveyork0]

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

[mariannaross]

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.

[VS24AT]

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