Madeleine Bordallo: “How, specifically, is your current budget request balancing the short-term requirement to repair or rebuild equipment…”

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I hope you don't extract this from my 5 minutes, but there is a native of Guam in the audience today, and I am very proud of her.

I think it is fair to ask if the Army is, in fact, just creating more overhead that will further slow an already cumbersome process.

I am confident that there is bipartisan support among the Committee for offshore wind, which would improve self-reliance and lower electricity costs in the territories.

I am concerned that the Army is standing up a four-star organization with up to three lieutenant generals as deputies without a clearly defined command relationship.