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In conclusion, I want to thank all of you again for stepping up to serve your country.

My feeling is, if they are struggling and they go seek help, that is a positive thing, as opposed to any type of black mark on their career.

The last thing we want to see is somebody who is struggling be hesitant to seek help, because they are worried about, 'Will people start to look at me sideways because of this?'

I think you are going to see in this position that that is one of the things you will be spending an amazing amount of time on, trying to get that right.

How do we maintain a high level of readiness in the Guard as we go through decreasing budgets, decreasing deployments?

One part of the legislation is that we try to figure out what are the best practices of all of those, and that we hone in on those, as opposed to just running on 180 willy-nilly.

I introduced legislation earlier this year that ensures that this average becomes a minimum, not only for Active Duty, but for Guard and Reserve.

I would ask you to make that a priority, because we are one counterfeit part away from disaster on a constant basis.

How are we going to partner with industry? How are we going to work together with our intelligence officials and others to secure the integrity of the supply chain of what we have?

In regards to Mr. Snowden's area, will there be a review through all of these contractor areas as to what is core to what we need to do and when we regard and review expense?

I would suggest that one of the first things you do is sit down and determine where did we go off the highway? How do we fix it? How do we square it away?

I would recommend we get working on that right away, in light of what we have seen going forward these days.

The sectarian violence in Iraq is very troubling.

Do you have the resources now or do you, what additional resources might you need in analysis resources to really put together a strong cyberosecurity protection system?

I'm glad to hear that you are well aware of the potential problems here.

It's both a privacy issue and a safety issue, because hacking into the system... can result in the disclosure of the collection of information.

The reason I am asking that question and the reason I am concerned about it, and I have repeatedly asked the question of the VA, is because we have had complaints in my district, which is in Northern Indiana, of long waits for medical…

And I guess, you know, one question I have is it just is shocking to me that there are national medical device tracking efforts already.