I just want to make sure, I get the unfilled billets, but from a lot of years of experience, the unfilled billets are generally the low-density, hard-to-get billets.

If they don't know about it, it doesn't exist.

I want to talk--we talked about strangulation. And when I was a district attorney [DA] in Mississippi, I was very helpful in trying to get the law changed so that it became a felony in Mississippi...

Thank you, Madam Chair and Ranking Member Chabot. I would like to thank the Committee for considering my bill, H.R. 1615, the VA-SBA Act.

I just ask that equal time be represented in this hearing and all other hearings.

But we have a policy--it is either DOD or Department of the Army--which requires that she be--have another female officer with her in order to serve, okay?

We have got to be careful with policies that segregate, and we have got to integrate.

I have a continued focus on our Gold Star families and how we best serve those survivors of our Gold Star--of our warriors who die in combat.

We need to change the things that we can to make it better.

We are talking about differences between equity and law and equity--or cases of equity and cases of law, dicta versus real law.

As a former commander and district attorney, I know that sexual assault is a scourge on both the military and society as a whole.