Does the Air Force have a similar backlog?

What are the risks in terms of long-term sustainment, reduction of the expected service life, and the burden of increased flying hours related to combat operations in Afghanistan?

as DOD begins to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, the Army and Marine Corps have been adjusting their plans to redeploy equipment from Iraq.

I commend you for placing an emphasis on improving readiness and vital depot maintenance requirements across the Active Duty, Air Force Reserve (AFR), and ANG forces.

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, is the reset funding request for fiscal year 2011 sufficient and when will we begin to see a return on its investment in reset in terms of improved readiness?

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…

We not only talk about family values in Indiana, we practice them, Senator.

I have high confidence that, if confirmed, they will be superb additions to the Federal bench.

I thought this was just weather as usual in Minnesota.

Even in Washington, $4 billion is still real money, and I suspect for your viewers at home, Anderson, it's the principle of the thing.

They're asking us to raise the debt ceiling by $2 trillion. At a time when ordinary people are having to make hard decisions about what they can afford and not afford, maybe not do the little extra thing this Christmas, members of Congress…