Mark Begich actually said...

Dr. Woodson, I understand you made a decision recently on the TRICARE contract in the West Region, which serves my home State of Alaska.

I appreciate the Army's initial attempt to utilize voluntary measures to implement the reductions.

Would you agree Alaska and Hawaii--two States strategically located to enable the basing, staging, and training of forces to promote U.S. in...

We should have made the decision last year and honestly talked about all three pieces, but we did not.