Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, what additional training is being provided to those forces that will move directly into Afghanistan from Iraq?
Evan Bayh
The Public Record
as DOD begins to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, the Army and Marine Corps have been adjusting their plans to redeploy equipment from Iraq.
In Afghanistan, my own view is that skeptics who look at that conflict and say, we're going to do our part, we're making a major commitment to stabilizing that country, to keeping the Taliban and the al Qaeda from having a platform to…
Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, would additional reset funding restore readiness levels sooner and what are the anticipated reset costs for the out-years?
how confident are you that the supplemental request will or will not be sufficient to cover all costs, considering the disaster assistance currently being provided to Haiti by our military forces?
I rise with a heavy heart to honor the life of PFC Brian R. Bowman from Waveland, IN. Brian was 24 years old when he lost his life on January 3 when insurgents attacked his unit in Ashoque, Afghanistan. Brian was serving as a medic in the…
I have high confidence that, if confirmed, they will be superb additions to the Federal bench.
First, it increases spending about four times the rate of inflation at a time when the deficit is out of control and our national debt is skyrocketing. So I just I think fiscally, it is irresponsible.
It just sends a message that Congress is just out of touch and oblivious to the concerns of ordinary people. And I think that's just deeply wrong, and it feeds into the cynicism that many people feel about Washington these days.