"How feasible is it for your service to develop an independent prosecution chain, along the lines of the Marines' reform?"
"Why did this failure occur? Can you each commit to me that your services will rapidly put in place a system to ensure victims are asked whether they prefer their cases to be tried in civilian or milit..."
"One area I am concerned with regarding the SVC program is the ability of the special victims lawyer to operate independent of any command, similar to defense counsel."
"I want to thank you for the courage that you have shown."
"the process was worse than the rape"
"Do you believe recent expansions of the concept of apparent unlawful command influence hampers commanders and compromises their ability to set the necessary cultures within their units? How would your..."
"So for all those Governors that are wringing their hands about losing authority, once this OMB document is released everyone will have access to it."
"I just want to echo the words you started out with. There is a piecemeal patchwork of authorities today and duty status reform is long overdue."
"I worry that the confusion generated by having so many duty statuses is having an effect on retention in the Reserve Components."
"I could conceive of a set of circumstances where you would have someone in category one that is equal to someone in category two because they may not be in a military action."
"I urge the committee to support our proposal."