I encourage the Army and the DOD at-large to adopt the recommendation of the Independent Review to increase service representation on Joint Terrorism Task Forces and coordination with the FBI.

What did the Army's higher authorities do when complaints were sent up the chain?

Why did Major Hassan's colleagues and former supervisors wait until after the Fort Hood incident to speak about the content of his extremist religious views?

We have to ensure that performance appraisals accurately provide a holistic overview of professional, ethical, and personal career development of all personnel.

It's a tragedy whenever something like this happens.

I agree with you.

I applaud you for accepting this nomination.

Does an ethnically unbalanced ANSF pose linguistic and ethnic barriers within the local Afghan villages along this Pashtun tribal belt?

That was my next question: What are you in CENTCOM doing to facilitate military-to-military confidence-building between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and then I threw in India too?

How do you recruit these individuals?

I want to thank you for your sacrifice and your extremely hard work that you do every day on behalf of all of us.