Hugh Shelton
Hugh Shelton
General Henry Hugh Shelton is a retired American career military officer of the United States Army. He served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth2 January 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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It is prudent to take some additional measures in light of the rhetoric, the threats and the intransigence of the Iraqi regime.
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We know what their centers of gravity are. Some of those can be attacked by the other elements of our government. Some could be attacked by us.
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There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.
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Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.
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Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years.
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I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.
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The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.
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I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.
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The USS Carl Vinson, the carrier battle group, will arrive in central command's area later today (Thursday). Some of the ground and air forces from the United States will begin to arrive in the gulf this weekend.
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I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.
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I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
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And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.
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But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.
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They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.