"I want to thank Ranking Member Senator Kaine for his continued leadership on defense issues and eagerness to work together in a bipartisan manner on behalf of our men and women in uniform."
"This is a real issue for us, and I really appreciate your coming forward and testifying."
"I appreciate your looking at this policy."
"My sense is that naval shipyard dry-dock capacity is substantially inadequate to serve the future life-cycle depot-level maintenance needs of the U.S. Navy fleet."
"I would urge the Secretary to come forward, because obviously time is of the essence."
"What type of Army and Marine Corps units have the least time at home between deployments?"
"Is the Navy prepared, if they have to, to address the career progression issue?"
"The Navy has been struggling to adequately define maintenance requirements which are key to completing maintenance on time."
"Is that what you understand is the new policy? What impact is the policy having on attrition, and do we continue to have, still, challenges on the security for our shipyards?"
"One of the issues that we put in the 2016 NDAA was a concern that the new long-term TDY [temporary duty] policy may be discouraging excellent, excellent workers from going to other shipyards because o..."
"We believe F-15s, F-16s, and B-1s cannot replicate the CAS capabilities of the A-10. We know from combat experience that the elimination of the A-10 before a viable replacement achieves full operation..."