05/11/2021
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"Your written testimony notes that the Marine Corps may experience elevated operational risk in the 2020s if the predicted strike fighter shortfall comes to fruition."
"Like the Air Force, Naval air forces require inventories of precision air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions."
"The sooner we can stabilize training, modernization, and munitions funding, the sooner we can ensure that we are on the track to fulfill our Nation's requirements now and in the future."
"that means if we are occupied, others, not just the United States being at risk, but others could have mischief threatening our other allies."