We have got to get our command structure to be a lot more sensitive about these issues.
Our position, strong position here is that all those that are currently serving would be grandfathered in under the present system.
It would be devastating. You take another $500 billion out of this Defense budget, the strategy I just presented you I would have to throw o...
We have got to change that.
The only way the United States remains the strongest military power in the world is to keep developing new generation fighters.
If they see that we are going to come down from 1,500 to some number in the low to middle hundreds, it does nothing but encourage our enemie...
This is not about, you know, this is a way we can save money.
It was my home in the past, and I still consider it one of the good moments of my history in public service.
This is a problem that I worry about a great deal.
Sequestration has this, frankly, mindless formula that's already built into it, that basically cuts across the board.
Our goal is to complete all of the transition to a training, advisory, and assistance role in 2013.