Secretary McHugh and General Casey, the Army recently withdrew the mobilization for training option for Reserve component soldiers.

Is the move on time?

Secretary McHugh and General Casey, what additional military construction (MILCON) funding is needed to rehabilitate and construct Reserve centers and National Guard facilities for training and duty?

what risk does your budget take with equipping and training the Guard and Reserves?

Secretary McHugh and General Casey, please describe the Grow the Force initiatives that will increase the Army Reserve Forces in Florida and other States.

What issues remain?

the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have transformed our Guard and Reserve Forces from Strategic Reserves to an operational force.

The additional funds would be used for the replacement and restoration of critical infrastructure and instrumentation.

For the long term, we're going to have to have some kind of international trusteeship.

Just a quick comment, if you would, Admiral, about the role of Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft in Afghanistan?

The American military leads. You are the point of the spear. You make it happen.

I will continue to protect so that you don't have the invasions there so that you can't test, train, and drop live ordnance.

Secretary Miller, with the Czech Republic we're going to have some form of shared missile launch information.

I want the record to reflect that several predecessors ago of General O'Reilly, General Kadish testified to this committee--and this is years ago--that the chemical Airborne Laser by the time that he testified was going to be ready within…

Let me ask Dr. Gilmore. In your prepared testimony, you stated, talking about the Airborne Laser: 'The engagement was not an operational test conducted under operationally realistic conditions.'

noted by Senator Nelson.

If you are as successful as you have been, certainly in Iraq and, we hope, in Afghanistan, and now in our relations through the Pakistani Government, that they are successful, too--but if young men are led astray as to what the Koran…

I'm especially proud that both of you reside in my State, in the wonderful area of Tampa.