What has happened to transformation?

The Army reported to the committee that they may need 42,000 to 43,000 additional soldiers, the Air Force 22,000 to 30,000 additional airmen, the Navy 10,000 additional sailors, and the Marine Corps an additional 5,000 marines.

what effect will this have on those E-1s on the lower end of the pay scale with respect to getting the last of our military personnel off of food stamps, or will we backslide and be putting personnel back on food stamps?

I continue to be troubled by your Service's push to lease 100 KC-767 tankers under terms that are clearly a disservice to the taxpayers of this country.

I was surprised to learn that the Navy has elected not to include the Cockpit Air Bag System (CABS)...

I have two concerns here. First, today's Navy routinely operates in littoral waters increasingly populated by a very capable diesel submarine threat, yet we are doing away with a class of ships designed to counter that threat.

General Shinseki, I noted that the Army intends to invest nearly $700 million over the next 6 years to modernize key training ranges.

my staff was recently briefed on the implementation of the Call to Service Plan, which Senator Bayh and I were successful in including in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.

I am looking at the pay tables here. In 2000, the law prescribed military pay raises to be ECI plus 0.5 percent.

The sustained increases in defense spending we have made over the past 3 or 4 years are, I think, making real strong progress.

We're also told that the administration is considering a wide array of far reaching proposals that would change the way the Department of Defense operates and the role of Congress in overseeing these operations.