I want to thank all of you for your willingness to serve and for your leadership and for your distinguished service and for all of the sacrifices that you and your families have made for the country and will continue to make.

If 275 strategic airlift aircraft presents challenges to TRANSCOM, what kind of challenges would 211 present?

I think that people need to understand that, that he has put potentially at risk American lives and the lives of our allies.

the President, many of us, are pushing for further economic sanctions, other types of sanctions against Russia for their invasion of Crimea.

The capacity of Air Mobility Command to operate at TRANSCOM's behest and provide refueling around the world is critical to being able to move our forces to the places they need to be when they need to be there.

I'm really pleased the 157th Air Refueling Wing at Pease... has been chosen as the top Air National Guard unit to receive the new tankers, the KC-46A.

Mr. McCord, for A-10 personnel costs associated with Air Force personnel (organic depot maintenance), can you confirm that those personnel will no longer be employed with the Air Force as a result of losing this specific workload, and will…

Dr. LaPlante, is it true that Air Combat Command has issued an official notification to cease Suite 8 development immediately?

Dr. LaPlante, if this is accurate, what impact will this have on the ability to conduct future subsystem modernization?

Submitting an audit-ready statement of budgetary resources by September 30, 2014 is not just a goal, it is the law.

Is there a point at which the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan gets so small that our forces might not be able to fully protect themselves and our diplomatic personnel?

I am concerned that the Air Force may not be on track to meet the audit deadlines.