What it should not do is strip away the Service Chief's authority when he says I need this capability.

Without a major change in national strategy to account for a smaller force with reduced capability, the Army will likely experience a period where it is indeed hollow.

What is the Marine Corps' requirement for amphibious warships?

We're not going to stop until this is fixed.

You know, we spent a lot of last year talking about how are we going to address sexual assaults in the military.

I wanted to thank you, Admiral Howard. You and I talked about this when we met in person...

Resource shortfalls in available personnel and needed equipment at the unit level remain the principal detractors to achieving the level of readiness.

We are never going to remove politics from any of this process, because it is the nature of a democracy.

A hollow Army is characterized by prolonged and disproportionate investments across manpower, operations and maintenance, modernization, and procurement without corresponding adjustments to strategy.

That's music to my ears, because that was my piece, and I'm glad to hear that.

Fantastic. Thank you.

Let me just applaud the Department's efforts and impressive progress.

I certainly appreciate, this has been one of the ongoing issues that has been from Congress to Congress, the issue of Guam.

Let me just note again, my going-in position is that I am opposed to BRAC, but I would like this information.

I want to thank all of you. I would just start, as I mentioned in my opening statement, Secretary McGinn, I wanted to follow up, which I had raised in the full Armed Services Committee yesterday, about the reprogramming requests for the…

BRAC was created as a copout, so that somehow we wouldn't have to make these decisions.

You can appreciate where we don't want to build municipal water projects, but we want to help the Navy.

I think this is probably not just an issue at Portsmouth but maybe an issue elsewhere, at all of our facilities.