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Ken Fisher joins host Ron Aaron and co-host Carol Zernial to talk about The 100th Fisher House on this edition of Caregiver SOS. About Ken Ken is the chairman and CEO of Fisher House Foundation, a leading nonprofit serving service members, veterans, and their families through a network of nearly 100 comfort homes where families of ill and injured veterans and military members can stay at no cost while receiving treatment far from home. Under his leadership, the program has grown exponentially, advancing accessibility within the houses and expanding to support healing through adaptive sports. In addition to these roles, Ken currently serves as co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum and served as the chairman of the 2016 Invictus Games in Orlando, Florida. In 2007, Ken was appointed by the Bush Administration to the President’s Commission on Care of America’s Returning Wounded Warriors and has served on several policy boards and round tables, in support of former U.S. Secretaries of Defense Ashton Carter, Chuck Hagel, and Jim Mattis. Ken attended Ithaca College and received an honorary Doctorate of Commercial Science from the University in May 2016, among other recognitions including being named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. Most recently, he received the West Point Association of Graduates’ Sylvanus Thayer Award for 2022. Additional distinctions form a long list of honors from organizations, including the United States Marine Corps, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veteran Affairs, HillVets, the Friends of the Vietnam Memorial, and many others. He lives in New York with his wife, Tammy. Ken is a proud father of three children and two grandchildren. Hosts Ron Aaron and Carol Zernial, and their guests talk about Caregiving and how to best cope with the stresses associated with it. Learn about "Caregiver SOS" and the "Teleconnection Hotline" programs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At 15 years old -- Doris's life was pre-determined.  Not so fast.   Hello Doris Inc.  In 10th grade, Doris an Orthodox Christian Arab, happily learns she will marry Marcelle.   Doris is controlled first by her parents and next by her mother-in-law.  As the years progressed, Doris dreamed about independence.  After an Oscar-nominated movie is filmed in her rough neighborhood in Jaffa, Doris grabs her opportunity.  Listen to Doris's personal story of how she no longer says 'Yes  sir" but rather "Yes."   Doris has become a sensation with politicians and celebrities flocking to hear her special story of empowerment.   Doris Inc. was launched.  Join me for this inspiring story; it's the best eighteen minutes you'll spend today.Please do three things: Subscribe to our podcast through your favorite platform.Share with a few of your friends today.Visit our website at http://findinginspiration.lifeIn this episode we cover:Doris has hosted over 4,000 people in her home in Ajami (Jaffa).Doris shares what it was like to live in a tightly controlled childhood home and how her experience was typical of all her contemporaries in the Islamic culture. Doris has a revelation that her life should be more in her control.    Doris shares how her upbringing and marriage were a continuation of not being allowed to make decisions and how much of her life was pre-determined by her Arab Christian culture. Doris said: "I understood that our daughters were the product."An Oscar-nominated movie is filmed in her neighborhood.  Following that, tour groups started walking around to see where the movie was filmed. Doris excitedly jumps at the chance to re-make her image and build her self-confidence.Today, thousands of people have sat in Doris's home to hear her personal story and learn more about the Arab Christian culture.As an Orthodox Christian Arab who was born in Jaffa, Doris shares how the Ajami neighborhood catapulted her into hostessing as a business. Doris shares about the modern role and expectations of women today. US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, Sarah Jessica Parker, New crews, and Mayors eagerly listen to Doris'personal empowerment triumph.Amazing Informative Links: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077262/https://www.jpost.com/opinion/grapevine-lured-by-home-hospitality-600775https://www.jaffastoriesandcoffee.com/https://www.viator.com/tours/Tel-Aviv/Jaffa-Cultural-Stories-and-Coffee/d920-110735P1https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/sk4v00qbbyhttps://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g297749-d17559583-Reviews-Doris_Hiffawi-Jaffa_Tel_Aviv_Tel_Aviv_District.htmhttps://daattravel.com/photoblog/doris-coffee-for-a-change/

At 15 years old -- Doris's life was pre-determined.  Not so fast.   Hello Doris Inc.  In 10th grade, Doris an Orthodox Christian Arab, happily learns she will marry Marcelle.   Doris is controlled first by her parents and next by her mother-in-law.  As the years progressed, Doris dreamed about independence.  After an Oscar-nominated movie is filmed in her rough neighborhood in Jaffa, Doris grabs her opportunity.  Listen to Doris's personal story of how she no longer says 'Yes  sir" but rather "Yes."   Doris has become a sensation with politicians and celebrities flocking to hear her special story of empowerment.   Doris Inc. was launched.  Join me for this inspiring story; it's the best eighteen minutes you'll spend today.Please do three things: Subscribe to our podcast through your favorite platform.Share with a few of your friends today.Visit our website at http://findinginspiration.lifeIn this episode we cover:Doris has hosted over 4,000 people in her home in Ajami (Jaffa).Doris shares what it was like to live in a tightly controlled childhood home and how her experience was typical of all her contemporaries in the Islamic culture. Doris has a revelation that her life should be more in her control.    Doris shares how her upbringing and marriage were a continuation of not being allowed to make decisions and how much of her life was pre-determined by her Arab Christian culture. Doris said: "I understood that our daughters were the product."An Oscar-nominated movie is filmed in her neighborhood.  Following that, tour groups started walking around to see where the movie was filmed. Doris excitedly jumps at the chance to re-make her image and build her self-confidence.Today, thousands of people have sat in Doris's home to hear her personal story and learn more about the Arab Christian culture.As an Orthodox Christian Arab who was born in Jaffa, Doris shares how the Ajami neighborhood catapulted her into hostessing as a business. Doris shares about the modern role and expectations of women today. US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, Sarah Jessica Parker, New crews, and Mayors eagerly listen to Doris'personal empowerment triumph.Amazing Informative Links: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077262/https://www.jpost.com/opinion/grapevine-lured-by-home-hospitality-600775https://www.jaffastoriesandcoffee.com/https://www.viator.com/tours/Tel-Aviv/Jaffa-Cultural-Stories-and-Coffee/d920-110735P1https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/sk4v00qbbyhttps://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g297749-d17559583-Reviews-Doris_Hiffawi-Jaffa_Tel_Aviv_Tel_Aviv_District.htmhttps://daattravel.com/photoblog/doris-coffee-for-a-change/

Corie Weathers, author of Sacred Spaces, My Journey to the Heart of Military Marriage, transparently shares some of her own marriage struggles as a the wife of a military chaplain in this far reaching conversation. Corie was the 2015 Armed Forces Insurance Military Spouse of the Year. One of her responsibilities was to travel on a one-week overseas holiday trip with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. Corie’s personal goal for this trip was twofold: to better understand her husband’s deployment experiences and to bring other military spouses along through her daily video podcast and eventually her book. Sacred Spaces. Every military spouse will better understand their own challenges and struggles as Corie doesn’t hold back in taking listeners into the heart of her own marriage. She poignantly describes intimate, sacred moments where her understanding of how she realized that when she said goodbye to her husband when he was deployed to Afghanistan, she was actually saying goodbye to life as she knew it. Her husband would leave part of his heart in Afghanistan. Corie doesn’t leave listeners without hope or a path forward. This conversation is not just for military families. Every married couple will benefit from this strong message of help and hope. Corie Weathers, author of Sacred Spaces, My Journey to the Heart of Military Marriage is also a licensed professional counselor and hosts the Lifegiver Military Spouse Podcast. Corie and her husband, Matt, co host marriage retreats. For more about Corie, visit corieweathers.com and https://www.youtube.com/user/corieweathers Please leave your comments about this conversation – your review will encourage others to experience the same help and hope!

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld isn't your typical doctor. He is a also a veteran and advocate for LGBT patients.   In 2014, Ehrenfeld was called to active duty and served a tour in Afghanistan at the NATO Role III Multinational Medical Unit, where he was constantly relied upon to care for wounded U.S. service members and coalition forces. He still receives messages from people he helped and saved.  A longtime advocate for patients, equality, and LGBT health, Dr. Ehrenfeld made international headlines on February 22, 2015, when he asked the newly appointed Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter his stance on letting transgender individuals serve in the military.  Today, Dr Erhenfeld lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his husband, and works for Vanderbilt University as a Professor of Anesthesiology, Surgery, Biomedical Informatics and Health Policy. Visit Feisworld.com for show notes and find more heroes like Jesse Ehrenfeld: www.feisworld.com/blog/jesse-ehrenfeld --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/support

This talk occurred on March 27, 2017 at The Institute of World Politics. About the lecture: In December 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter declared the opening of all U.S. military combat jobs to women. The decision followed a long and controversial review of the implications of allowing women into combat units, during which the US Marine Corps and large numbers of military personnel objected to a change in policy. The inclusion of women in combat units is in the early stages of implementation; whether the new administration will seek to revise or overturn the policy remains to be seen. Dr. Anna Simons, a veteran of the debate, will discuss the history of the issue of women in combat units. She will explain why that history is relevant to the current situation, and offer her views on the best way forward. About the speaker: Anna Simons is a Professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. Prior to teaching at NPS she was both an assistant and then an associate professor of anthropology at UCLA, as well as chair of the Masters in African Area Studies Program. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and an A.B. from Harvard College. She is the author of Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone and The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces. Most recently she is the co-author of The Sovereignty Solution: A Commonsense Approach to Global Security. He articles have appeared in The American Interest, The National Interest, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Annual Review of Anthropology, Parameters, and elsewhere. Simons has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. Before attending graduate school, she worked as a reporter and as a presidential speechwriter, and spent several years traveling and working abroad. About the moderator: Elaine Donnelly is founder and president of the Center for Military Readiness, an independent, nonpartisan public policy organization that reports on and analyzes military/social issues. She has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services and the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces, and was the recipient of the American Conservative Union's Ronald Reagan Award. Donnelly has provided testimony to Congress and published articles on military personnel issues in the Washington Post, USA Today, the Boston Globe, National Review Online, the Washington Times, Congressional Quarterly Researcher, and the Naval Institute's Proceedings. She attended Schoolcraft College and the University of Detroit and resides in Livonia, Michigan.

On this Pacific Newsbreak, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter talks about the importance of Pacific Partnerships. Also a Marine Unit participating in Exercise Balikatan helps a Philippine Community rebuild a school damaged from Typhoon Yolanda.

How will the U.S. military stay competitive? This is about far more than platforms, bombs, and guns. It is fundamentally about people. And with archaic personnel systems plaguing the armed forces and the Department of Defense, our talented young men and women are being drawn away into the private sector in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter sat down with WOTR's Ryan Evans to talk about the Force of the Future initiative - a sweeping program of reforms that aims to bring the Department of Defense into the 21st Century in terms of how it manages its most important asset: human beings. TRANSCRIPT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF RYAN EVANS:  Welcome a very special edition of the War on the Rocks podcast series, with Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. Thanks for making the time for us, Mr. Secretary. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ASH CARTER:  Ryan, thanks for being here.  Welcome to the Pentagon. EVANS:  We're here to talk about Force of the Future.  It's a program of reforms, aimed at changing the way the Department of Defense handles its human capital.  And you have just announced the first sort of tranche for these reforms earlier this afternoon. Personnel reforms are not generally considered the sort of sexiest topic out there, when you look at Defense, particularly when you're competing with attention in terms of issues with the Islamic State, Russia, what just happened in France. Why should the American people care about what you're trying to do with Force of the Future? SEC. CARTER:  Well, they care about having, in the future, as they have now, the finest fighting force the world has ever known.  That's what protecting them tonight; that's what's fighting ISIL; that's what is keeping the peace and making a better world for our children everywhere in the world. Now, we have, today, the best. In addition to using that wisely, as we do, we need to make sure that ten years, 20 years from now, since we don't know what the future will hold, that we have the very best men, also. That means attracting the people who are young people today to be part of our future. So, my job, as secretary of Defense, on behalf of our people is to -- both to deal with today's crisis and to leave behind me, to my successor and my successor's successor as fine a fighting force as it is my privilege to lead. And we're good for lots of reasons.  We're good because we have great technology, we're good because we stand for great values, we're good because we have lots of friends around the world, because people like working with Americans. But the chief reason we're the best is because we have the best people.  Now, you say this is kind of an abstract thing; maybe it is to most Americans, but I don't want them to think that way.  I want them to think that -- as many Americans, in fact, do -- how can I make a contribution? Many of them saw what happened in Paris over the weekend, and I was talking to a group of college students today, and I hope they're asking themselves, how can I contribute to making a better world? Some of them will join the military, but that's not the only way they can contribute.  They could join DOD in other ways.  And -- but I want to create as many different avenues as I can, to make sure that the talented people who are part of our future join our force. And the last thing is, Ryan, I mean, it may be abstract in some way to the general citizen, but for our millions of people -- military, civilian, and by the way, contractors who do a lot of our work as well -- that's what they do in life.  And they want to -- I need to make sure that they continue to improve themselves, keep up with the latest technology, get advanced degrees.  That they have opportunities to take care of their families, to have children if they want to have children. And that -- to the extent I can, consistent with military needs and with the profession of arms,

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter on collaboration in the Pacific; and a Marine sergeant breaks boundaries at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.

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After Tuesday's election, President Obama still faces significant foreign policy challenges in his second term. Iran continues to enrich uranium, Afghanistan could unravel as the 2014 withdrawal deadline draws near, and Syria's civil war shows no sign of letting up. Joshua Landis, the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, says many people in the Middle East are disappointed President Obama has not taken a stronger show of leadership. But he says just as many are relieved that he is withdrawing from the Middle East. "In many ways, what he's done is he's gotten us out of the business of occupation," Landis said. "Obama has stressed policing. And that means drone warfare from a distance, and getting the troops out, minimizing the cost." Rebecca Cruise, a global security and comparative politics expert who's spent time in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, says while many Europeans are enthusiastic about President Obama's second term, the response is more muted than 2008. "The Central European Bank just came out and said they're going to be facing economic woes well into the future," Cruise said. "Unemployment rates are going to be low, and they don't necessarily see Obama as being helpful in that regard." Host Suzette Grillot said global markets remained flat in the immediate aftermath of the effect, so there's no real economic hope here attached to a second Obama term. Cruise said this isn't unusual. "Those investors that participate in the stock market suggested they were more in line, or looking for a Romney victory, so this is a reaction to that," Cruise said. "This news about the European future also came out the same day, so that's playing into that as well." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta have both indicated they plan to step down before the president's second term begins, and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee could be a logical pick to replace Clinton. "John Kerry campaigned very hard for Obama, so Obama owes him," Landis said. "He's been into foreign policy, and the other is the U.S. Ambassador to U.N." Grillot argued that Susan Rice may be a controversial choice, given the administration's handling of the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Rebecca Cruise said several names have been floated to succeed Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, including Michele Flournoy, a top Pentagon policy official, and the Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. "But what we know about Obama, Hillary [Clinton] was kind of an odd choice, out of left field, so all this speculation," Cruise said. "He could pick someone else entirely." Earlier this month, Grillot spoke with Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker. He’s now the Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University. He described the evolving role of NATO in the two decades since the end of the Cold War. Volker said that even though NATO agreed on a new strategic concept in 2010, the document was too broad, outlining crisis management and collective defense, as well as dealing with old and new security threats. “It didn’t really make any choices,” Volker said. “Meanwhile, no one’s funding it, or putting the troops in, and putting the commitment in, and I think NATO is again at a stage where it’s really going to think through where [it goes].” Volker also said NATO should shift its 21st century focus to China, calling the country a “potential threat,” but not necessarily a threat at the present. “They’ve got resources and they’re putting it into the military, and they have a sense of national strength, and they have territorial claims in the neighborhood that are against other countries,” Volker said. “At the same time, when I look at Russia, and I look at China, I see a huge difference. I have a lot of hope for