Mike Garcia: “Today, we speak on the existential threat of global climate change, and the devastating impacts on wildlife and our…”

I view these annual appropriations hearings as similar to investor briefs, annual investor briefs, right?

Last year, we missed our recruitment numbers, retention numbers by a net 41,000 personnel, recruits across all the services.

In California last week, and we brought this up in an earlier hearing with SECNAV as well, and we have had discussions with SecDef about it as well.

You all know my number one priority is our troops, especially our junior enlisted, E-1 through E-6. They are the most precious, they are the most potent, and they are the most powerful weapon system that we have.