So here is what we are going to do. We are going to have a hearing in July on the 5-year plan and the 20-year plan and on your unfunded requirements list.
What we would really like to see is your 20-year plan, because, even when you get all--so say that everything works beautifully...
Why wouldn't you have your 5-year plan along with that? Because then how do you know what you need, if you don't have a 5-year plan?
You don't do that. In fact, you are highly censored by your overseers at OMB, so you are not even able to come in and say, 'Here are all the...
Well, why do you think the disconnect exists between what the President has said he wants to do and wants to use the Coast Guard for, and th...
I don't understand. But my--we go around this all the time, back and forth, back and forth.
You have a total disconnect between the budget you are receiving, or the budget request the Coast Guard has given Congress.
And the committee would highly recommend that you don't do your own thing, and that you piggyback on DoD's plan.
Why would you go out and do market research on something the Department of Defense already has?
But if you keep analyzing things, you are never going to do anything.
So, right now, the very first ship, the Dependable, should have been decommissioned in 2011.