They are very important. They support the 336th Training Group and Air Force Survival School.

I will work with you to make sure we have what we need within the budget process on that.

While the surgeons general aren't responsible for the enforcement of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice, it seems to me that they might be concerned about prosecutions of people who have severe mental distress while serving or after…

I really commend you. I think you have made a lot of progress with that, and it is so important...

It is a great program, and I want to commend you for doing that.

I hope you will lean in and watch that all groups are taken care of on this, and it doesn't just favor one group over another group.

Could you get back to me on that? It was one of our huge questions 1 year ago; making sure that people were registered and we were tracking them.

He said yes, he would. That didn't happen. On his word of doing that, in front of open committee, I lifted my hold on the South Korea Ambassador. So he misled me.

I thought we were all going to go to the same system.

The Reserves and particularly the National Guard have some unique concerns when they're deployed.

I find the trend very disturbing because these crimes are happening at all.

I think that the worst thing we can do is to not talk about it.

I wanted to personally thank all of you and everyone you oversee for the tremendous work that they do.

The time passage of pending Congressional legislation is crucial to implementing the full vision of this project.

The Army's deployment schedule and adequate care of both soldiers and their families is very important to me.

No one said it was going to be easy.

In December, I sent a letter to the National Guard Bureau signed by all the members of the Washington State Congressional delegation requested to have HAMMER training center be named the western regional training center for National Guard…

I'm worried about compassion fatigue with our nurses, and I know that's a recruiting issue, and a retention issue.