Steve Buyer: “The determination of one's status is done by a tribunal under article V of the Geneva Conventions.”

The establishment of a four-star Joint Readiness Command (JRC) to oversee joint readiness, especially medical readiness, is intended to fill a critical gap, rather than increase bureaucracy.

I only wish your conference had made you chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, I really do, because you and I could have done a lot of great things together. In reality, the unwritten history will be the success of the committee…

What we seek to do is to mitigate the financial risks of the chronic and catastrophic illnesses to the Active-Duty family households.

We are asking that you give it statutory power to actually implement the recommendations.