Secretary Gates strongly endorsed increasing the Army and Marine Corps end strength during his discussion of priorities for the fiscal year 2010 budget.

The risk is significant. We have not had sufficient time, equipment, and continuity of personnel to fully train to some of our critical Marine Corps core competencies.

Do you have the right types of equipment and in sufficient quantities to fully equip our forces for success in Afghanistan?

General Chiarelli, are you concerned that a one-size-fits-all approach to equipping our soldiers doesn't take into account the drastically different environments our soldiers face in a country like Afghanistan?

General Chiarelli, how does the Army assess risk when fielding new technology, specifically body armor?

General Chiarelli, how does the Army weigh the tradeoffs between the need for greater protection and the need for greater mobility?

The President's made it clear that this is the last emergency supplemental, this is the last war funding outside of the normal budget process.

To both of you for a very brief response, if you will.

I think one of the things that the chairman and I strongly are concerned with is, as you have this tremendous plus-up of U.S. presence, the requirements then on the resupply side are significantly more than what they currently are.

Yet what we really need in order to stop the things that appear to be true is maybe $25 billion more for the military.

Is it safe for us to assume, General, that any delay by Congress in approving this supplemental would have an impact on deployment?