Steve Womack: “My concern, however, is taking the attack aviation piece completely out of the National Guard.”

Testing the boundaries a little, I would expect that.

Before I close, let me say, as most of my colleagues know and as Mr. Clyburn pointed out, my presence here today in the face of a terrible, personal hardship--the loss of my wife of over 41 years--I hope is indicative of the importance of…

There are only about 578 people that will be affected by this. You know, the Guard is over 100,000.

This is not an attempt to undo the Guard. It is a very small number of people.