US Air Force - Obama Presidency Oral History US Air Force Index / Organizations Transcripts Nancy Sutley ...of it, there was a snowstorm in DC, and the Air Force was worried about the ability to ge... ...he was going to address the troops at the Air Force base but then just go on. So they wer... Jeh Johnson ...as general counsel of the Department of the Air Force . From 1989 through 1991, he wa... ...as general counsel of the Department of the Air Force , October 1998 to January 2001, th... ...because I'd been general counsel of the Air Force , considered me to be a nationa... ...interested in either being secretary of the Air Force , because I had been general counsel o... ...because I had been general counsel of the Air Force , or general counsel of the Departmen... ...that I had been general counsel of the Air Force , given the contributions I had made o... ...two when I was general counsel of the Air Force —I didn't know what to expect. So ... ...a case called Witt [v. Department of the Air Force ]. Witt was Margaret Witt, who was ... ...level of scrutiny. And the JAGs in the Air Force went nuts—and by the way, the Air Forc... ...the Air Force went nuts—and by the way, the Air Force can be a pretty conservative place... ...Defense, the judge advocate general of the Air Force , who was a friend of mine from my day... ...mine from my days as general counsel of the Air Force , said to me, “We've got to appeal thi... ...point, when I was general counsel of the Air Force I did my best to avoid the whole issue... ...of real cultural conservatism, so the Air Force was kind of where the Army was, and th... ...from 1998 to 2001 as general counsel of the Air Force , and before that as an assistant U... ...from 1998 to 2001 as general counsel of the Air Force , and before that, as an assistant U... ...appointed him to be general counsel of the Air Force . He's a good man.” So that was Ma... Show more... Martin Nesbitt ...a closing speech to some members of the Air Force , and other staff members were there... Scott Gration ...Georgetown University before joining the Air Force . Gration served in the Obam... ...you even started your path and chose the Air Force or the military as a career path fo... ...all the way through. I think the Air Force was having a hard time gettin... ...just because, who wanted to join the Air Force when they'd be sent to Vietnam? Or eve... ...so I heard that I could learn to fly in the Air Force , and so I figured that would be ... ... So it worked out okay, and I joined the Air Force and went down to pilot training. I ha... ...of the other people had graduated from the Air Force Academy in June and they had taken tw... ...life was good. Then I found out that the Air Force was looking for pilots to transfer int... ...And [laughs] at my going-away party, the Air Force —people in the Air Force—made the fina... ...party, the Air Force—people in the Air Force —made the final decision to overthro... ...this is how I left [laughs] Kenya, with the Air Force being disbanded, a lot of the peopl... Show more... Gregory Craig ...two-, three-, four-star generals in the Air Force and the Army, who were very upset abou... Josh Earnest ...fly on one of the Gulfstream jets that the Air Force has, which was cool, for a shor... ...thing I remember from the trip is that the Air Force guys also went and bought New Yor... ...the big high-back leather chair, and the Air Force jacket is always around it, but he'... ...might have, but anyway, I remember that the Air Force steward, Rob Nation, came into the dar... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Russia Russia go to the Hawaii Hawaii go to the Science Science go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa