"I have a lot of concerns about the impact of this decision on Guard members' pay and benefit."
"Maintaining engine commonality across the full fleet of F-35s is one major benefit of the F135 ECU."
"The decision to move forward with the ECU to the F135 over trying to integrate AETP was deemed the most cost effective and safest solution for our servicemembers."
"It is pretty stunning to me how this country and our allies fail to learn recent history lessons."
"You have to protect the people, the civilians in the battle space, otherwise you create more terrorist going forward."
"If Israel's strategy is making it more likely, not less likely, that future terrorist attacks will occur, then it is not an effective strategy."
"I think you are right that there is a strategic and a moral reason to care about the number of civilian casualties in Gaza."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Good to see you all. Thank you all for your service."
"20 service members lost in the last 2 years. 60 service members lost overall to the Osprey."
"I think we have made a really bad bet on doubling down on Tiltrotor technology that has proved to be deadly, and has proved to be wildly expensive."
"The Army reversed itself, cancelled that program, which is going to put us in a position to have to rely on the Black Hawk in the short term to do a lot more work."
"Many of our closest security allies, in a place like the Middle East, are stealing from their people on a daily basis."