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.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger appointed Mrs. Donnelly to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) for a three-year term. (1984–1986). In 1992, President George H. W. Bush appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. For a full year, the commission studied all aspects of issues surrounding women in combat in all branches of the service.
Mrs. Donnelly is the author of a chapter titled “Defending the Culture of the Military,” which was published by the Air Force University Press in the book Attitudes Are Not Free – Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces, released in May 2010. She also wrote a comprehensive, peer-reviewed article titled “Constructing the Co-Ed Military” for the May 2007 edition of the Duke University Journal of Gender Law & Policy.
Elaine Donnelly has published articles on military personnel issues in many media publications. She has provided testimony to Congress several times and participated in educational programs before diverse organizations. She has also appeared on most network and cable network.
In 2002 she was the recipient of the American Conservative Union’s Ronald Reagan Award. She attended Schoolcraft College and the University of Detroit and resides in Livonia, Michigan.

Anthony DeStefano is the bestselling author of over twenty-five Christian books for adults and children. His books have been published in eighteen different countries and twelve different languages. A native New Yorker, Anthony attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, where his English teacher, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, sparked his interest in becoming a children's book author. In fact, Anthony wrote his first picture book, Little Star, as an assignment for one of McCourt’s writing classes. Three decades later it was finally published and became a bestseller. Anthony lives in New Jersey with his wife, Jordan.

Melissa Henson is a noted expert on entertainment industry trends and the impact of entertainment media on children and American culture at large. As the Parents Television and Media Council’s Vice President of Programs, she directs the organization’s educational programs, research, and advocacy for a safe media environment for children and families.

During her 25-year tenure at the PTC, Ms. Henson has championed the protection of children from harmful media that Hollywood markets to them, has urged corporate accountability from sponsors of entertainment media, mobilized grassroots members of the PTC to urge enforcement of the broadcast indecency law, and has tackled issues of child sexual exploitation in the media. She urged Hollywood to present more positive, empowering images of girls in the media. And she produced a number of groundbreaking PTC studies documenting graphic sex, violence and profanity on television and in streaming media.

She began her career with the PTC in 1997 as an entertainment analyst, documenting instances of inappropriate content on television.

Ms. Henson is a sought-after entertainment expert and has appeared on a variety of TV programs, is a frequent guest on radio talk shows across the country, and has been quoted extensively in news sources.

Ms. Henson is a graduate of the University of Virginia where she received a BA in Government. She resides in Falls Church, Va., with her husband and their son.

The Army is on track to meet its beefed up recruitment targets for 2023 as sluggish recruitment during the prior year put military readiness at risk.

In his song “Anything Goes,” Cole Porter mused, “Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose… Anything Goes.” Source: Streaming Media’s Favorite Word | Parents Television Council

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