"To me, not doing maintenance isn't a savings. It's simply deferring the cost to a later date and it will probably be more expensive at that point."
"The Air Force intends to begin the Next Generation Tanker (KC-Y) procurement in the mid/late 2020s."
"Will KC-46, KC-Y, and KC-Z aircraft replace the KC-135/KC-10 fleet one-for-one?"
"How many refueling aircraft does the Air Force have in its inventory today?"
"I'm less interested in the details of what happened and more interested in what do we learn from it."
"It seems to me the strategic challenge... is how do we decrease response time while still maintaining a relatively small footprint?"
"we have to step up the military--our military effort against Assad in some ways"
"Life is not an on-and-off switch. It's not we have to have a huge infrastructure or nothing."
"One of the potential cures, if you will, or at least ameliorations, is greater flexibility to DOD in terms of how it's going to be achieved."
"That to me means that the work you're doing, General Kelly, in the SOUTHCOM on the high seas is not only a drug issue or a criminal issue, but it's a very serious national security issue."
"If you move everybody to Fort Benning, it's going to be hard to get them there."