Jim Inhofe

To hold all targets at risk, the Air Force requires both nuclear gravity weapons and stand-off cruise missiles.

The Air Force will seek to minimize fiscal year 2014 near-term risks to readiness by making tradeoffs within weapon system sustainment.

The fiscal year 2014 President's budget submission does not factor in the cost of restoring the readiness of flying squadrons that have stood down due to sequestration.

What is the Air Force doing to improve the regularity of command climate assessments?

Secretary Donley, does the VA need additional resources to hire more claims adjudicators?

General Welsh, given the impacts of sequestration, what priority is the Air Force acquisition plans for the T-X program?

Current events in Northern Africa and the Middle East exemplify the need to permanently forward-base forces to execute phase zero operations and preserve strategic flexibility in times of crises.

What is your fiscal year 2014 OCO request?

The smallest Air Force we have ever been, and I think that downsizing will continue

The first operational squadron stood up at Yuma, AZ, in November 2012.

General Welsh, the Libyan conflict demonstrated that NATO inventories of JDAM are not sufficient to conduct even a small operation effectively.

General Welsh, what alternatives do you see for future airlift production if the C-17 line shuts down?

General Welsh, will the Minimize CNS/ATM new start provide more or less capability than the current program of record, the C-130 AMP?

It is a very serious thing.

I am not satisfied with the progress to date. More must be done to eliminate this scourge and do everything possible.

This is unconscionable at a time when we are facing a global security environment that is as dangerous and complex as any time that I can remember.

Some feel that we are already approaching the hollow force.

We cannot afford as a Nation to let sequestration continue for another year.

Sequestration makes the problem worse, quite simply.

That is serious, don't you think?

Yes, which we do not want to do.

I am pleased to learn that DOD has now reinstated the Tuition Assistance Program, previously cancelled by the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force in response to the administration's failure to plan for sequestration.

Admiral Greenert, I have heard about faulty charts, but that's what seamanship is supposed to counter.

The need for modernization is pervasive across our Air Force.

Lost flight hours will cause unit stand-downs which will result in severe, rapid, and long-term unit combat readiness degradation.