Martha McSally

It is about warfighting capability and having the best team. That comes with trust and respect and honor.

If we are inculcating resentment towards our female troops from the beginning, then that actually sows the seeds for people then having the types of behavior that could come out in a variety of different ways

We don't have knee jerk reactions in addressing the culture, with new policies and training and PowerPoint briefings

We have got to inculcate in our troops the desire to have integrity and excellence in character and respect and honor 24/7

Some of the discussions we have already had with General Neller... is culture, right?

I echo concerns and frustrations about sequestration and the impact that it has had on you.

I would like to open by asking for your continued support for the A-10 Warthog.

They are going to--no insult to my colleagues from these States--but challenging geographic locations.

We have addressed some of these shortfalls very much in, I think, a punitive way.

I don't like to make generalizations, but the old SAC [Strategic Air Command] warriors that we all know and love are very different from the mindset of millennials coming into this role.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks, gentlemen. Good discussion today about the importance of investing in recapitalization of the triad.

I mean, we have seen over the last year some challenges there.

We have got to make sure that the legitimate economic activity that comes north and south continues to be able to flow while we are intercepting the illegitimate activity

We still have a drug epidemic going on in our country.

Can any of you comment on we have had a number of States in the country that are now legalizing marijuana, and whether that is impacting the business model of the cartels?

Thanks, Chief. Additionally, we have talked a lot about the strategy of defense-in-depth in the rural areas, like my community.

One of my goals this year as Chair of this subcommittee is to drill down on the threat that an unsecure border poses to our fellow Americans.

Are there any additional tools specifically related to or authorities related to intercepting or cracking the encrypted comms?

We are going to continue to plug away on technology, certainly on the tactical infrastructure, the barriers...

Rest assured, the cartels will not sit idly by while we increase manpower, technology, infrastructure, or adjust our strategy, and that will threaten their business model.

As we increase our focus this Congress on securing the border, which I welcome, we have to be clear-eyed about the dangerous and sophisticated threat that we face from these adversaries on the other side.

We need that capability, it is amazing. But we also need to be able to stay on station more than 20 to 30 minutes, have more than 180 bullets, have more than 2 bombs on station and be able to survive a direct hit.

I would really like to follow up with the Air Force on. It would save some resources and allow us to move forward in a complementary way.

I think we need both those capabilities in order to have full-spectrum operations.

I was at Heritage Flight at Davis-Monthan this weekend. Climbed up the ladder of the F-35, talked to the pilots and maintenance.