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I want to thank the panelists for being here today. This is the beginning of a dialogue, not just a meeting.

What kind of work has been done to help facilitate the crosswalk of their military experience?

We should think first by identifying unique categories that we can look at.

I think that is a classic example.

I wanted to thank Senator Gillibrand for her work and successfully preserving some of the TRICARE coverages for families with children with autism.

I appreciate your feedback on the policy or maybe some concerns.

The main thing that we need to focus on, though, is instead of just purely asking you all questions about what we think you need is to make sure that we are listening to you about things that we have not even thought about yet.

Some of them we may not address in the most efficient manner possible, and there are a lot of opportunities for, I think, improvement here.

The topics we are going to discuss today are vital to the health of our All-Volunteer Force.

Thank you all, gentlemen. To your spouses, thank them for their service too because I know, if it is like my job, it is teamwork that makes it possible.

I want to thank you for bringing this important piece of legislation to our attention.

I was personally touched by the story of one of my constituents, Jonny Wade, a courageous 8-year-old from my district.

80 percent of the costs of the Postal Service is labor.

And the transparency for that accounting is important to me because I don't want us to step into something 10 years from now or five years from now when we realize that market conditions have changed and we are subsidizing a competitive…

So frankly, the cost-coverage problems are predominantly on the market-dominant side.

So is it a concern of yours, though, that that--if we as Congress raise rates by one cent, that increased revenue, is that going to go to what?

If we do not act, this is really going to affect jobs.

Well, the only competition you really have in market-dominant is the internet.