I would also encourage you to keep in mind some of the unique challenges that our female servicemembers face every single day.

We lost 479 young men and women to suicide in 2013 who were in the military.

We really need you to provide your unvarnished opinion.

We need you to help in this humanitarian crisis.

We are not asking you to fight our battle, but we need you as a partner, shoulder to shoulder.

I want to make sure that you are willing to work on eliminating that stigma.

We lost over 400 young men and women last year to suicide that were Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve combined.

When we look foreign and we look at the challenges we have in the nuclear area in regards to submarine warfare, one of my greatest concerns is the efforts to attack us, cyber-wise, to find out our technology.

One of the greatest concerns was the Iraqi troops, and when you look at the number of ISIS fighters in Ramadi compared to the Iraqi troops, it was a very sparse number of ISIS fighters, but they won the day anyhow because the Iraqi troops…

We need to make sure that our soldiers, our warfighters when they come home have the resources necessary.

What are the top priority capability enhancements in the Marine Corps' current efforts to upgrade from the M40A5 to the M40A6?

The Marine Expeditionary Unit has a vital role in our post-9/11 force.