Thank you very much, gentlemen, for your service.
We are not shifting away in our training base from counterinsurgency.
Doesn't the F/A-18 line mitigate the risk of this shortfall going forward?
I don't want to throw it all out. I get that the convening authority has a role in terms of the good of the order.
I'm so proud that the Joint Chiefs made the recommendation to the Secretary of Defense to change Article 60 of the UCMJ.
Absolutely. I think they are, from my other components, all looking very carefully at what they can use.
It provides a visible presence of the United States in the littorals.
I think the Europeans will stay with us in Afghanistan.
I support the triad. I continue to support the triad.
I think we will reach a point that we must have a replacement and I believe we understand where that point is.
But today you feel confident you could protect the continent of the United States from an attack.
the cost to that company would be many times the cost of preemptive action today.
We have to focus not only on technical and tactical training, but more on values and the professionalism that is require...
Can you give us a sense in open session of your take on that particular issue?
Thank you, sir.
As GIRoA increasingly exerts sovereignty, I anticipate there may be additional areas that limit or constrain our forces.
I think, poses a continuing destabilizing effect across the region.
I believe that there will be some very real consequences in what our brethren at State are able to deliver.
