John Warner: “Mr. Chairman, that was a statute that Senator Clinton and I put in. It's requiring the Quadrennial Review to…”

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.

I also thought it was extraordinarily important you pointed out that just as it is incumbent upon our military to continue to develop next generation weapons that it's been the legacy of our military forces to always be about innovation.

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