John Warner: “So Maliki then has given some tacit recognition to this taking place and in some ways, as you say, cash is flowing down…”

Judging from my own experience, these four resumes constitute an extraordinary body of knowledge needed in these respective positions and needed by our country at a critical time.

You will carry with you for the rest of your life the recollections of the work that you have done for one of America's most valued assets, the men and the women and their families of the armed services of the United States.

This country is greatly strengthened by the will of such people to step forward and do, time and time again, public service.

I think that's a really significant answer since the question of readiness clearly one of the most strategically important issues you have to deal with.