Under
the provisions of the Twentieth Amendment to the United
States Constitution, the
forty-fourth President of the United States, President Barack
Obama inauguration ceremony was given at the White House
on January 20, 2009
The
inauguration marked the commencement of the four-year term
for President Barack Obama also vice president, Joseph Biden
respectively. and it is the commemorating the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Abraham Lincoln "A New Birth of Freedom".
The Official inauguration events commenced on January 17
with a train ride beginning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and stopping in Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland,
before continuing on to Washington, D.C. According to a
federal security official, the initial estimate for the
number of attendees to the swearing in ceremony was around
1.8 million people. Events were scheduled in Washington
from January 18 to 21, 2009.
The
ceremony began about 9 a.m. Central time (10 a.m. local
time) with a rotation of musicians playing live.
The
order of the program was given as the follow: Musical
selections, the United States Marine Band. Musical selections,
the San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls
Chorus , Call to order and welcoming remarks, the Honorable
Dianne Feinstein (which explains the aforementioned San
Francisco choirs).
Invocation:
Dr. Rick Warren, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, Calif.
Musical selection, Aretha Franklin, Musical selection, Aretha
Franklin, Oath
of office administered to Vice President-elect Joseph R.
Biden Jr. by associate justice of the Supreme Court, the
Honorable John Paul Stevens
Musical
selection, John Williams, composer/arranger Itzhak Perlman,
violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Gabriela Montero, piano; Anthony
McGill, clarinet, Oath
of office administered to President-elect Barack Hussein
Obama by the chief justice of the United States, the Honorable
John G. Roberts Jr., Inaugural
address: the president of the United States, the Honorable
Barack Hussein Obama, Poem:
Elizabeth Alexander, Benediction:
The Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, and The
national anthem was given by the United States Navy Band
"Sea Chanters."
According
to the White House President Barack Obama reaffirmed on
Tuesday his pledge to invest in the U.S. military and review
major weapons programs, vowing to end abuses and cost overruns
in the current defense procurement system.
The
White House stated that the Boeing Co's C-17 transport aircraft
and a multibillion dollar program to replace the Air Force's
refueling planes.
President
Obama and vice president Obiden reassured that their administration
will Invested in a 21st Century Military and Build Defense
Capabilities for the 21st Century.
President
Obama and vice president Obiden reassured that their administration
will Invested in a 21st Century Military and Build Defense
Capabilities for the 21st Century. It is the most important
to make the country strong and secure the homeland security
and global security to preventing the terrorists attack
which happened like in September 11, 2001.
President Barack Obama emphsized that the administarion
must preserve our unparalleled airpower capabilities to
deter and defeat any conventional competitors, swiftly respond
to crises across the globe, and support our ground forces.
He believes that greater investment in advanced technology
ranging from the revolutionary, like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
and electronic warfare capabilities, to essential systems
like the C-17 cargo and KC-X air refueling aircraft, which
provide the backbone of our ability to extend global power.
The following statements are provided by the White House
from the President Barack Obama Administration:
Invest in a 21st Century Military
 Rebuild
the Military for 21st Century Tasks: Obama and Biden believe
that we must build up our special operations forces, civil
affairs, information operations, and other units and capabilities
that remain in chronic short supply; invest in foreign
language training, cultural awareness, and human intelligence
and other needed counterinsurgency and stabilization skill
sets; and create a more robust capacity to train, equip,
and advise foreign security forces, so that local allies
are better prepared to confront mutual threats.
Expand
to Meet Military Needs on the Ground: Obama and Biden
support plans to increase the size of the Army by 65,000
soldiers and the Marine Corps by 27,000 Marines. Increasing
our end strength will help units retrain and re-equip
properly between deployments and decrease the strain on
military families.
Leadership
from the Top: President Obama and Vice President Biden
will inspire a new generation of Americans to serve their
country, whether it be in local communities in such roles
as teachers or first responders, or serving in the military
to keep our nation free and safe.
Lighten
the Burdens on Our Brave Troops and Their Families:
The Obama-Biden Administration will create a Military
Families Advisory Board to provide a conduit for military
families' concerns to be brought to the attention of
senior policymakers and the public. Obama and Biden
will end the stop-loss policy and establish predictability
in deployments so that active duty and reserves know
what they can and must expect.
Fully
Equip Our Troops for the Missions They Face: Barack
Obama and Joe Biden believe we must get essential equipment
to our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines before
lives are lost.
Review
Weapons Programs: We must rebalance our capabilities to
ensure that our forces can succeed in both conventional
wars and in stabilization and counter-insurgency operations.
Obama and Biden have committed to a review of each major
defense program in light of current needs, gaps in the
field, and likely future threat scenarios in the post-9/11
world.
Preserve
Global Reach in the Air: We must preserve our unparalleled
airpower capabilities to deter and defeat any conventional
competitors, swiftly respond to crises across the globe,
and support our ground forces. We need greater investment
in advanced technology ranging from the revolutionary,
like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and electronic warfare capabilities,
to essential systems like the C-17 cargo and KC-X air
refueling aircraft, which provide the backbone of our
ability to extend global power.
Maintain
Power Projection at Sea: We must recapitalize our naval
forces, replacing aging ships and modernizing existing
platforms, while adapting them to the 21st century. Obama
and Biden will add to the Maritime Pre-Positioning Force
Squadrons to support operations ashore and invest in smaller,
more capable ships, providing the agility to operate close
to shore and the reach to rapidly deploy Marines to global
crises.
National
Missile Defense: The Obama-Biden Administration will support
missile defense, but ensure that it is developed in a
way that is pragmatic and cost-effective; and, most importantly,
does not divert resources from other national security
priorities until we are positive the technology will protect
the American public.
Ensure
Freedom of Space: The Obama-Biden Administration will
restore American leadership on space issues, seeking a
worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military
and commercial satellites. They will thoroughly assess
possible threats to U.S. space assets and the best options,
military and diplomatic, for countering them, establishing
contingency plans to ensure that U.S. forces can maintain
or duplicate access to information from space assets and
accelerating programs to harden U.S. satellites against
attack.
Protect
the U.S in Cyberspace: The Obama-Biden Administration
cooperate with our allies and the private sector to identify
and protect against emerging cyber-threats.
Restore the Readiness of the National Guard
and Reserves
Equip,
Support, and Modernize the National Guard and Reserves:
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will
provide the National Guard with the equipment it needs
for foreign and domestic emergencies and time to restore
and refit before deploying. They will make the head of
the National Guard a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
to ensure concerns of our citizen soldiers reach the level
they mandate. They will ensure that reservists and Guard
members are treated fairly when it comes to employment,
health, and education benefits.
Develop
Whole of Government Initiatives to Promote Global Stability
Integrate
Military and Civilian Efforts: The
Obama-Biden Administration will build up the capacity
of each non-Pentagon agency to deploy personnel and area
experts where they are needed, to help move soldiers,
sailors, airmen and Marines out of civilian roles. " Create
a Civilian Assistance Corps (CAC): Obama and Biden will
create a national CAC of 25,000 personnel. This corps
of civilian volunteers with special skill sets (doctors,
lawyers, engineers, city planners, agriculture specialists,
police, etc.) would be organized to provide each federal
agency with a pool of volunteer experts willing to deploy
in times of need at home and abroad.
Engage
Our Allies in Meeting Our Common Security Challenges:
America's traditional alliances, such as NATO, must
be transformed and strengthened, including on common security
concerns like Afghanistan, homeland security, and counterterrorism.
President Obama and Vice President Biden will renew alliances
and ensure our allies contribute their fair share to our
mutual security.
Organize
to Help Our Partners and Allies in Need:
The Obama-Biden Administration will expand humanitarian
activities that build friendships and attract allies at
the regional and local level (such as during the response
to the tsunami in South and Southeast Asia), and win hearts
and minds in the process.
Create
Transparency for Military Contractors:
President Obama and Vice President Biden will require
the Pentagon and State Department to develop a strategy
for determining when contracting makes sense, rather than
continually handing off governmental jobs to well-connected
companies. They will create the transparency and accountability
needed for good governance, and establish the legal status
of contractor personnel, making possible prosecution of
any abuses committed by private military contractors."
Restore
Honesty, Openness, and Commonsense to Contracting and
Procurement: The
Obama-Biden Administration will realize savings by reducing
the corruption and cost overruns that have become all
too routine in defense contracting. This includes launching
a program of acquisition reform and management, which
would end the common practice of no-bid contracting. Obama
and Biden will end the abuse of supplemental budgets by
creating a system of oversight for war funds as stringent
as in the regular budget. Obama and Biden will restore
the government's ability to manage contracts by rebuilding
our contract officer corps. They will order the Justice
Department to prioritize prosecutions that will punish
and deter fraud, waste and abuse.
More
details you can see the following link: The
White House Defense
The
C-17 Globemaster III is the newest, most flexible cargo
aircraft to enter the airlift force. The C-17 is capable
of rapid strategic delivery of troops and all types of cargo
to main operating bases or directly to forward bases in
the deployment area. The aircraft is also capable of performing
tactical airlift and airdrop missions when required. The
inherent flexibility and performance of the C-17 force improve
the ability of the total airlift system to fulfill the worldwide
air mobility requirements of the United States.
It
looks like that the Boeing Company needs help as early as
possible in order to sustaining the procurements and open
jobs for the employees who are about to receive the lay
off notice for 4,500 employees in Boeing Company which announced
last week. Last
year, The Boeing company could not distributed the Employee
incentive Plan since
the KC-X cancelled and the Boeing Strike was on more than
50 days. It has been hurting the Boeing company include
the worst global crisis.
Boeing
announced last Friday that it is planning to lay-off 4500
workers from its commercial airplanes division, because
of the faltering economy. Kristian Foden-Vencil reports.
The commercial airplanes division builds wide body planes
in Washington State like the 747 in Everett and the 737
in Renton. Source: OPB News.
Reported
by : Catch4all.com, Sandra Englund, January 20, 2009
Sources:
The White House
The
Whistle Stop Tour
The White House Defense
wikipedia
TechWag
http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia/countries/burma/cyclone_nargis/
The
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
Catch4all
Global Master III (C17)
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