Liz Saville Roberts: “I truly appreciate the response of the Senator from Texas. The reason I ask that is we are losing a $17.5 million health…”

“I truly appreciate the response of the Senator from Texas. The reason I ask that is we are losing a $17.5 million health and dental clinic and a $5.7 million child development center, which will make an enormous difference in the quality of life in regards to the soldiers coming back. There is another project I want to mention, and the Senator has brought it up. We need a $27 million battle command training center. What is that all about? That is 4,000 people going through that center which is going to be improved, who are going immediately to Iraq to serve under General Petraeus to see if that mission can work, and they are following the doctrine General Petraeus laid down at Fort Leavenworth, KS, which is the intellectual center of the Army. This center is necessary for training command, control, and communications functions that are critical to the training of the brigade and division staff. If you don't want to have them go to Iraq, rest assured they need the training to basically have them prepared for any kind of national security threat in the future. Another Kansas project in jeopardy of losing funding that is of deep concern to me and should be of deep concern to the Army is the joint regional correctional facility at Fort Leavenworth.”