You cannot expect us to fulfill the three requirements that you gave--funding increase, pass a budget, present a stable budget--if you do not give us a strategy.

We have got a very interesting and challenging situation in Syria, and that is the whole issue of the Kurds, our relationship with them, Erdogan's relationship with them.

Currently the force is short 1,500 pilots and 3,400 maintainers.

General Goldfein, how many pilots short is the Air Force today, and of those, how many are fighter pilots?

a 3 percent increase over the Obama proposed budget is not enough.

I totally agree with you. But I have never seen anything like this one.

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

I urge Congress to repeal sequestration and to approve the proposed Defense Department budget.

I foresee a train wreck here, and I am not sure that the administration recognizes how seriously particularly President Erdogan views the threat that he views that the Kurds oppose.

General McDew, how does TRANSCOM determine if it is able to provide the necessary airlift to meet the most stressing potential GRF employments and where is that readiness captured?

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.