I note that you recommend that certain individual ready Reserve categories that are unemployed or not eligible for health care have TRICARE permanently.

We would support that. I am not sure we can do it or whether it should go to the Armed Services Committee, but it is a good suggestion.

The two of us would like to meet with some of your people soon to see what we might do to help you expand the availability of this care throughout our country.

You remind me of the first time I testified before Congress. I read the third sentence and said, 'period.'

You're right, some of us up here were part of what they called 'The Greatest Generation.' We now know that we have been replaced.

We are at war and this transformation to our future force is continuing.

Well, gentlemen, those are some of those finest statements I have heard in my period on this committee, and I thank you all very much for the depth of your comments and for the reports you've made.

Do you have money in the research budget now for that CG(X)?

Well, I thank you. This committee did save the C-17. We saved the Predator. We saved the V-22. And as far as I'm concerned, we're going to save the F-22.

That shows how critical those tankers are to us.

Not that I have anything against Global Hawks. They're a very sound platform.