It is deeply troubling that I am still, after these months, getting reports that certain partners continue to show a blatant disregard for the seriousness of the issues facing our military families.

I am putting all of you on notice that this committee will be watching, and we will not tolerate in any way the abusive and problems that we have seen.

We will look at the budget and see if you are actually going to start.

The Marine Corps and the Air Force are receiving substantial new funds to the emergency appropriations for the rebuilding of some of your facilities.

Part of the problem that this committee has, at least this chairman has, is that there are multiple definitions of the way in which the money flows.

The Federal money that supports the educational system, the career education training programs, require that those programs reach out to the employers in the area.

The major contractors are basically moving out of legacy and moving on to tomorrow's systems, leaving behind problems for you all to solve.

Gentlemen, you should be able by now to understand where we are going here with this committee. We are going to hold you accountable to the plan.

The Department of Defense organic industrial base, comprised of depots, arsenals, and shipyards, is a critical part of our national security apparatus.

For all of you, you should be getting the gist of where I am going. Happy talk. I want real commitment, meaning, are you going to put the money and the effort into carrying out the plan?

We want happy talk to be executed, or executed to be happy talk, either way.

I would recommend that we build into it incentives and specificity that this be taken into account.