I plan to work with my colleagues to try to address this problem.

These retirements represent a huge loss of capability for the Navy and the Marine Corps.

It is clear that DOD's equipment stocks could prove vital if a similar situation were to arise in the Pacific and Taiwan.

Rather than keeping pace with the threat from China, the President's budget would let them lap us.

I understand that and support your attempts to modernize U.S. Air Force to tomorrow's challenges but concerned about the price in terms of aircraft and force structure that the budget proposes to pay to modernize.

To the extent that is humanly possible, that stuff should be produced in the United States and under our control.

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All of this invites a tremendous amount of risk and the risk won't be mitigated for years.

the Ukraine, of course, is fighting hard to repel Putin's misguided, I think, and poorly-executed invasion.

With inflation at the highest levels we've seen in 40 years, the request represents a cut from the 2022 level.

We also need a strong Army to deter China and respond to provocations, Iran, North Korea, and radical extremist groups.

As you know, the whole Defense request looks ludicrous to probably the majority of the House and the Senate.

I'm concerned, and I think I'm joined by a lot of others in the Senate and the House, about the impact inflation is having on the Army and the Navy and everything else.

Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine has made some of the Army's capabilities into household names, like the Javelin, the Stinger, and so forth.

What is the biggest challenge here? Is it lack of interest? Is it lack of - something?

I'm also concerned that inflation will reduce the Army's buying power.

In the area of hypersonics, General, I'll address this to you, we're all pleased to learn that the Army will field its first hypersonic battery in 2023, but we all are concerned and have been a long time about the progress that China and…

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