Donald Norcross

Thank you to all of you for your statements, and our opening statements that we talked about a number of issues.

We are far too dependent on foreign supplies here.

Buy in America has always been a motto that most of us adhere to.

It is great to have you here today.

We are going to try to bring the committee back to order.

The risk that we are facing today because of the condition of the facilities, and typically you would see a larger influx in the beginning because this is where we are trying to catch up.

So could you give me some clarity on how this gets done in 15 years with the priorities that we are talking about.

We have ongoing operations that are taking place in the facilities the way they sit today, and we talked about you are making it work.

It has been a rough couple of years when it has come to the pandemic, but the good news is I believe we are on the other side of it.

The subcommittee will come to order.

Thank you, Chairman. General, I have followup on the question concerning the 135s, but he talked about the next 2 years.

But incredibly important that we understand that for every Stinger that is leaving our inventory, it keeps us in a more precarious situation.

I think by virtually all estimates that Russia is not doing anywhere near what we expected them to do in Ukraine.

I'm concerned that the President's budget for at least the American buy, it's being reduced.

It seems imperative that we give them the ability to hit these convoys and trucks 20, 30, 40 miles back.

I always felt like we should have put more emphasis on the deterrence side of that, and I recommended long-range air defenses.

How it should end is with Russia, basically, going back where they came from and Ukraine being the sovereign democracy that it is and was and should always be.

We do not want a war with Russia, and we have to be cautious about how we approach this to make sure that we don't do that.

We need to protect Ukraine. Well, basically, there's three key pieces to it. We need to do everything we possibly can to support Ukraine in their fight against Russian aggression.

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I think that it would do well for the U.S. to be prepared for the potential disruption in democracies from food supply.

If the Ukrainians are not able to plant their crops over the next couple of months, and it certainly does not look like they will be able to, there's going to be a tremendous disruption in the food supply.

This is a direct result of Russia's incursion into the Ukraine.

Twelve months from now, I think we're going to be talking about the issue of hunger and the disruption of democracies in the Western Hemisphere because of the lack of food supply.

We started out this morning having a quote from General and President Washington talking about how important a Navy is.