I appreciate your response to that. But I also recognize that as I talk to these AGR folks back home, they have got decisions to make.

We are trying and we are making some headway, but again, it is these little things.

I think would be a strategic critical error.

Count me amongst those that are worried about our shipbuilding capacity and our infrastructure.

if we fail to invest adequately in our soldiers, that is where we fail, that is where we have the vulnerabilities.

more than 50 percent said they would not transfer to the Active Duty Space Force.

more than 50 percent said they would not transfer to the Active Duty Space Force.

So, you think it's a good idea, but we're not quite there yet in terms of making sure that we are implementing to scale?

Last year you testified that the Air National Guard makes up 30 percent of our Nation's Space Force capacity.

We are appreciative and grateful. We recognize, so many of us recognize just the role of our Reserve Forces.

I look at the Marines' role in Arctic Ops as absolutely necessary.

The United States is an Arctic nation, and of course, this is a strategically important region to us.

We are trying and we are making some headway, but again, it is these little things.

Count me amongst those that are worried about our shipbuilding capacity and our infrastructure.

In the fiscal year 2025 budget, Air Force is acquiring less fighters than originally projected six less F-35s, six less F-15EXs than originally planned.

What is really going to cost us is when these people vote with their feet, when they leave, and then we lose that experience that we have invested in them.

So, let me ask a question about the expansion of research and the modernization funding in OSD.

Last year you testified that the Air National Guard makes up 30 percent of our Nation's Space Force capacity.