Admiral Willard, are resources to support quality-of-life activities affected by the reduction in the defense budget in fiscal year 2013 and beyond?

In your statement, you mention that JHSVs are critical, 'in closing the gap between high-speed, low-capacity airlift and low-speed, high-capacity sealift.'

General Fraser, how many flights are operated and where are they operated?

PAK GLOC remains the quickest and most cost-effective route to move cargo, Afghanistan Security Force Fund material.

What are TRANSCOM and its component, MSC, doing to reduce the vulnerability of the U.S. commercial fleet from piracy?

I support this so-called retrofit package as a step to qualitatively improve Taiwan's air force.

I was concerned about what this would mean in terms of our readiness.

One of the concerns that I have is it delays, for example, production of one Virginia-class submarine.

I can remember being with Sani Abacha as long ago as 16 years ago, and while it was not called that at the time, it was the genesis of what has become Boko Haram.

We are certainly taking on additional risk with this.

I think what they are doing with drones has been very, very helpful.

We have a window of time here to engage both countries, and it is in our national security interest to provide the assistance.

the future of maintaining a base for Marine Corps aviation on Okinawa over the long term?

I hope we can find a way to make clear in Chicago that the door to NATO has not been closed to other nations, particularly I am thinking of Georgia, but there are others as well.

Thank you. Again, Godspeed in the chapters ahead, Admiral.

The basic conclusion of the DSB was that changes in climate patterns present new challenges to regional security and stability.

With $15 trillion in debt, that is a really hard sell to my constituents, that we should allocate $400 million for a system that we will never procure or use.