Richard B. Nugent: “Soldiers have got to be number one. They have got to be the number one priority.”

I want to make sure that the Chief of Police is accountable to you all and through oversight of this committee.

This is a decision that essentially takes the 'air' out of 'airborne.'

Eliminating the ability to rapidly mobilize, train, and deploy... increases risk at an unacceptable rate.

At some point in time I think we have to start making decisions about where we fight because what we don't want to do is break the Marine Corps or the Army for that matter.