This kind of information shouldn't take 3 months. I don't want to be put in a position where I'd have to put a hold on nominations.
We really want to make sure that people who aren't eligible for these S&I pays are adequately compensated.
I found it really interesting, that a majority of the healthcare was going to dependents, retirees, et cetera.
I need a breakdown of who served: ethnically, racially, by Service, by year; and what the casualties were, by Service, by race, by ethnicity...
It's very healthy for the military. It's very healthy for the country.
It preserves the citizen-soldier concept.
General Stultz, what percentage of the Army Reserve has deployed?
The one thing that I've learned, that I wasn't aware of before and does concern me, is, as these men and women deploy overseas, the one thin...
that's a moral contract. It's a moral contract that goes beyond benefits, and it goes to the life of an individual who spends a career in th...
If Congress should enact a law that says, 'Pay money for this circumstance,' typically, it says, under regulations established by the Secret...
That's actually very healthy for the military.
Frankly, we don't see any strain on the force, the way it's working.
Actually, when I was Assistant Secretary of Defense, we did----
I pushed so hard to get this GI Bill through.
A snapshot.
There's been a lot of discussion about the impact of these multiple deployments on employer relations.
I think there should be no doubt in anybody's mind that we are very committed to making sure that our military people are well compensated.
Just let me, as the Chair, make a couple of comments.
