"The idea of creating potential havoc when we work well together just seems rather crazy."
"Thank you. General Milley, Secretary Esper, thank you for coming in today."
"I think General Lyons is going to come to me, probably the Chairman, and make some recommendations as to maybe we should not retire some 10s or some 135s until we get a better assessment of what--how ..."
"Why wouldn't you include wages for those years of the apprenticeship? Why are you excluding that? Why would you not want them to know that?"
"Do you think having wage increases as part of those programs is a good idea or a bad idea?"
"Why would you want to change a program that has worked for a hundred years, that continues to work today?"
"I believe it is imperative for leaders to establish a Department-wide policy for guidance when we are comparing costs--apples-to-apples input between some of the legacy programs and the future generat..."
"We are talking about the F-35 today in particular but this committee deals with many platforms and systems."
"They are still supplying and is there reason to believe that they might stop anytime soon?"
"Our approach to date was we are not opening any new additional purchase orders or ordering additional material beyond the March of 2020 timeframe."
"I agree with everything that has been said so far and note that the F-35 program is trying to recover from risky acquisition decisions made by past program leaders."