Of course a multiyear is always going to be better for the taxpayer than one at a time.
We are not fully meeting our fundamental responsibility in the preamble of the Constitution to provide for the common defense.
Yet when we are going to need it, we are going to really need it, and if it is not there, we are going to suffer the consequences.
I just heard on the way over that the Navy has made a decision to name the DDG-120 the Senator Carl Levin, which I compliment.
This is something we have to work on and try to get clarified.
There is a bill, S. 119, that I am a co-sponsor of, the Wounded Veterans Recreation Act.
I want to complement you and your Department on the work on the app for the passes.
The Guard rests to some extent on the good will and support of employers, and I am hearing resistance from employers.
Certainly we cannot avoid--or should we avoid budgetary considerations? We all have to live within budgets.
I think we need to balance the things we ask of our services to do and especially in uncertain times like we have today.
We have got to build in flexibility for the family when the duty station changes but the school is still not done.