Gene Taylor: “Twenty billion dollars of American tax dollars, and there was not a vote in the Congress of the United States. Is that…”

I think everyone on this committee was very frustrated with the attitude taken under the previous Secretary of Defense (SECDEF).

It really does gripe me that when the Block 1 cruisers were retired at less than 20 years, that was a terrible waste of the taxpayers' resource.

This doesn't appear to be a very good business transaction for our nation.

This decision was not taken lightly, but with our coaching staff transition and several uncertainties regarding player availability, I felt it was not in our best interest to try to field a team that was not representative of Kansas State…