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Hugh Shelton Biography

General Henry Hugh Shelton (born January 2, 1942) is a retired American career Army officer. He served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001.

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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. They are taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.

Action, Agency, Necessary, Play, Rest, Thinking

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September, and even before then it was quite busy.

Busy, Hectic, September, Wells

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

Important, Operations, Quality, Special, Truth

Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

War, Hands, Nuclear, Results, Devices, Nations

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

Ask, Dangers, Day, Men, Share, Uniforms

But, the other thing is, is that I feel very confident in the individual pilots. They are tremendous individuals. They are individuals that have sworn to protect and defend our very citizens. That is why we served. . .

Citizens, Pilots, Individual, Sworn, Individuals

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

Airborne, Generations, Glowing, Provided, Seen, War

And occasionally some of the - some of the nations that you will have to - that will be partners in this would probably not be in terms of passing a pure human rights check, be - have everything going for them that you would like to have.

Rights, Checks, Passing, Check, Pure

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe, and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots even request permission to do that.

Air, Flying, Safe, Circumstances, Under, Confident

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

Marine, Opportunity, Soldier, Representative, Humbling, Washington

We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

World, Devastation, Obvious, Altitude, Smoke, Came

Our people are working overtime - I say our people; our federal agencies in this regard - and that I'm confident that the way that you can stop this and make Americans the most protected for this is to take it to the terrorist groups.

Agency, People, Terrorist Groups, Confident, Say, Make

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.

Firefighter, Fleeing, Knows, Know, Wrong, Firefight

I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.

Condolences, Loss, Lost Friendship, Felt, Ones, Condolence

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