Mike Turner

It startles, I think, all of us on how the administration thinks it can address these increasing missile threats.

Obviously, with missile defense, we don't have a margin of error.

Marine ground units are almost wholly without an effective organic air defense system except for the man-portable Stinger missile system.

The Marine Corps is requesting 10 fewer F-35B aircraft in FY20 than was planned in the FY19 budget.

The rate of pilots experiencing physiological episodes (PE) is back on the rise this year.

The goal of 80 pits per year, is that arbitrary or is that based upon our needs for a modernization?

I really appreciate what you do, because what you do is go around and identify things that could be an issue that everyone needs to address and be concerned with.

Miss Gordon-Hagerty, the goal of 80 pits per year, is that arbitrary or is that based upon our needs for a modernization?

What is the U.S. Air Force doing to field cost-effective non-GPS-reliant precision munitions with stand-off capability in the near-term?

You have made it clear that this is not a luxury, that there are real, hard things that would be devastating to the Air Force if this number goes down.

I think you truly, with your background and expertise, I think, are very poised to be the first female head of the Secretary of Defense.

The first role of that weapon is a deterrent weapon to make sure they don't cross that line.

We need one person in charge of space that will then organize, train, and equip forces for the new U.S. Space Command.

The most important role of the low-yield nuclear weapon is to make sure that the adversary doesn't think that would happen.

My concern with no first use is again, back to as you were saying General Hyten, what is in the minds of our adversaries.

The most important element of deterrence is not our view, but it is what the adversary is thinking.

I think a no first use policy would be destabilizing rather than stabilizing.

I think the President's vision is right, and it is also very similar to where this committee was starting as long as 2 years ago.

Representative Turner was a catalyst to move more quickly.

I believe that Congress needs to fund closing the border, and certainly the House voted last year to do so.

I want to echo Joe Wilson's thank you, General, for the map that presents the march, as Joe Wilson was saying, the march of freedom.

Stoltenberg clearly has given Donald Trump's beating the drum as the credit for the success that we are having of the steep climb that is happening over the past several years.

I think it would be the height of irresponsibility for us to be in a position where we decide that we are going to unilaterally disarm.

Your answer is fantasy. I mean it is absolutely total numbers. It is just math.

I agree with Dr. Blair in what he has just said, because it is very important that it does not affect the Russian calculus if we have no first use.