I don't believe, from the retrofitting or refurbishing--I've seen what the National Guard units can do in my own State o...
I just think that you truly have a window here to bring to us a common sense business plan that makes sense.
Just on face value it doesn't make like it's a good business arrangement.
What do you mean by 'borrowed manpower'?
it doesn't make economic sense, when you look at the amount of money that we've spent on contracting or private contract...
If I'm hearing you accurately, you're saying even with 2014, as we approach 2014 for the drawdown and leaving Afghanista...
We think that Iraq's not in any better shape today than it was when we got there, and that we don't have any more influe...
a major tenet of both the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance is protection of the N...
You can probably go and buy this off the shelf for the mission that you want it to be used for, correct?
the sequestration is taking on a whole new life of its own.
modernization of army reserve and national guard
In your view, what risks do the Budget Control Act and sequestration pose to achieving this strategy?
Have you done any analysis to determine the red flags that signal that the Army is becoming hollow?
to be able to do it in the most, I think, the most common sense fashion.
A lack of adequate funding needed to procure modernized equipment and to maintain the industrial base is the primary ris...
I think it'll happen in some way, shape, or form.
While the Senator is still here, I'd like to follow up because when these programs--I'm understanding when these program...
I can't speak enough accolades from this committee or the Senate as a whole and I think Congress as a whole.