JOHN M. McHUGH: “I believe the temporary increase in Army end-strength is critical to sustain manning levels of deploying forces and…”

The time for action is now.

There has been some discussion that our examination and attempt to establish what we call MOS-specific physical requirements is intended to lower standards to facilitate bringing women into certain jobs, and that is simply not the case.

The worst the thing that we can do is ask the men and women serving in our Army to perform a task that we do not equip and train them to do.

Ladies and gentlemen, our Army, your Army faces a dark and dangerous future unless this Congress acts now to end these ill-conceived and inflexible budget cuts.