Mike Turner actually said...

There used to be 300,000 soldiers in Europe during the height of the Cold War. Today we have 30,000 with the same mission: to assure allies ...

The hearing will come to order. We have votes that are coming up, so we are going to try to get through our opening statements.

I think many of us are concerned about these end strength numbers and we are concerned, as we rightfully should be, simultaneously on costs.

As Representative Davis reminded us, this is almost quadrupling. But let's face it, it is from a relatively low baseline.