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Is the Air Force committed to commonality as a means to modernize and maintain the triad?

The ground-based strategic deterrent provides, I think, an important opportunity for cross-Service collaboration between the Air Force and the Navy on strategic missiles.

What is your assessment, as you take a look, of the ballistic missile threat to our country posed by North Korea and Iran?

Is there a point where this has happened time after time after time where we tell them in advance enough? The next time it does not end well for you.

The last thing I would like to see--and I know you would too--is all the efforts for so many years just kind of be thrown away because of a number as opposed to what conditions require.

We see more than auto crashes now, more than car crashes, automobile-related deaths, heroin and prescription drug-related deaths have rocketed past that.

This epidemic has basically hollowed out and destroyed all of these families.

Do you have a commitment that, if there is an effort made, that if somebody tries to grab one of them or take one of them, that it will be interdicted before it gets into a North Korean port again?

One of the things, when I visited General Scaparotti there, was to talk about: the core of the mission is 'fight tonight'.

I constantly heard about the need to improve the integration and the interoperability of our missile defense forces.

I am concerned that mental health programs that work well for Active Duty servicemembers do not always translate well.

I think that is outrageous.

I am concerned that DOD is ineffectively assessing how many providers we do need.

I would rather have a nominee disagree with me than to simply nod, say yes, and then do the exact opposite a few days later.

We appreciate your service in taking on this mission. We wish you Godspeed.

We cannot make a peach an orange.

If it is 10,000 that is needed to be effective, then tell us it is 10,000.

What is the goal, as you see it, when you go there?