Chuck Hagel: “I am committed to a strong National Guard. It is an essential part of our force structure going into the future.”

There will be consequences. There will be repercussions.

There is going to be some severe reckoning and review, and a top-down, break it all down and asking themselves, who are we? What do we believe in?

Well, first recognize that we have a problem and then start addressing the problem, locally, nationally, globally.

One would have to suspect the motive behind the effort to put together this panel.