Norman D. Dicks: “I move to strike the requisite number of words. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Washington is…”

Would you explain--you say here you have these two brigades, except pursuant to article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Could you explain what the impact of this is, the treaty commitments here?

I was a very strong proponent of the C-17 even when Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach was building this airplane. I had a chance to go there when they were doing the wooden mock-ups and when they brought in the load masters, who made it such…

I thank the gentleman for his hard work on this issue and look forward to working with him.

I want the gentlelady to know that we worked with Mr. Young on a number of insertions of report language in the report because of our concern about this issue as well. This is something where we always have to be vigilant because the…