Despite widespread public support for the National Park Service, its budget has been decreasing.

Fully understanding these potential tradeoffs is a critical part of considering the Commission's recommendations.

These constraints require the Army, the Department of Defense [DOD], and Congress to closely examine the appropriate distribution of active Guard and Reserve forces.

The National Commission on the Future of the Army had an ambitious task, and I commend the commissioners.

Today's challenges also require the Army to ensure that it is optimizing the performance of its soldiers.

The Army is being asked to do more with less against an array of diverse and complex global threats.

I guess a concern we would have that we would be paying for planes that still had this problem and put the pilots at risk.

the numbers still don't go down.

I would like to focus my concerns today on one particular topic highlighted in today's testimony and the hearing materials provided to members.

I appreciate, Admiral Moran, your talking about the manual backup oxygen system, but I think we all would be concerned by the fact that you are asking a potentially incapacitated pilot to sort of help himself out of this.

I appreciate the efforts that you all are making. It is obviously a real issue and one that--in which the safety of the pilots is, you know, paramount in everybody's mind.