It is obviously of a critical nature that you continue to give us your unvarnished opinion as you see, going forward, where there might be glitches, where there might be problems, what the actual numbers need to be.

How do we maintain a high level of readiness in the Guard as we go through decreasing budgets, decreasing deployments?

We have seen a huge influx of heroin into my home State, into other States, much of it coming up across the border.

In the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), I am sure you will continue to tell them--we talk about how many troops will remain, but if we do not have a SOFA, it completely changes the whole discussion.

In conclusion, I want to thank all of you again for stepping up to serve your country.

I think you are going to see in this position that that is one of the things you will be spending an amazing amount of time on, trying to get that right.

I trust that one of your primary efforts over there will be to continue to tell whoever will be their leader how critical this is and that basically everything else, all the other efforts kind of line up with this.

One part of the legislation is that we try to figure out what are the best practices of all of those, and that we hone in on those, as opposed to just running on 180 willy-nilly.

the amount of resources you have to get the job done there, specifically aerial resources, because from all I have seen, there has been an incredible shortage of unmanned aerial vehicles and other products that are needed to find out…

I would like to see, if you could provide me, your list of priorities, because I've been very, very concerned that the way we've been using them, and with the way priorities were lined up, we're really skewed, which has caused us…

The numbers are alarming, and I think it is our number one focus with respect to preserving the force.

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