But it's needed and I hope we can talk later sometime about the necessity to restore the confidence in our system to increase the enlistment rates in the Air National Guard and to restore the total enlistment rates for the whole Department…

The good news is that NATO forces are coming in.

I would see no problem with that because I think it's implied already.

This fund is for emergencies.

Totally military requirements now?

I would like to ask this question, and that is how would this contingency emergency reserve fund really operate in terms of the drawdown?

My proposal would only affect--only impact the effective date of the availability of these funds.

Well, there are two differences from the IFF account under this request.

Well, I hope he agreed with me, Senator.

I publicly apologized to Senator Feinstein for the actions that I recommended in limiting the monies available to deal with the ammunition dumps.

I'm told that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) participation now is increasing.