General Goldfein, how many space operators is the Air Force short?

General McDew, along with other government agencies, such as the Maritime Administration (MARAD) and the U.S. Coast Guard, TRANSCOM ensures surge sealift vessels are ready to deploy in the event they are activated.

Sequestration will further limit the ability of the services to provide any resources to us.

OCO [overseas contingency operations] is a gimmick.

Russia violated Ukrainian sovereignty and annexed Crimea, a seminal event that revealed what had already been increasingly obvious for years.

I believe it is critical that we empower and engage countries in Southeast Asia and South Asia to protect their own waterways.

We would like to know from you also if you could write us a letter how we can fully utilize the assets of our uniformed military in keeping with the posse comitatus rule so that we can maximize border security.

Is it of interest that 90 percent of defense spending is in the hands of five companies?

With a 3 percent increase over the Obama administration's defense appropriations, we are going to take care of all those things.

I hope that you will provide the committee with your views on the suitability of special operations to direct gray zone challenges today.

General McDew, do you believe that TRANSCOM can facilitate the mobilization sustainment of our armed forces if they were called to respond to a contingency in Russia or North Korea?

General McDew, as it can take 8200 C-17 sorties to deploy a single brigade combat team, how will TRANSCOM adapt to ensure that global force projection remains a primary capability of the armed forces?