What difficulties do you foresee with getting DOD equipment and personnel out of Afghanistan with a year-long Continuing Resolution (CR) and sequestration?

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

North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong Un, brutally represses his people and is engaged in provocative statements, military exercises, and nuclear tests that have pushed the region onto the brink of conflict.

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

Without an approved budget, I cannot accurately forecast the means available to support CENTCOM planning.

the need for modernization is pervasive across our Air Force.

General Welsh, there was a tremendous surge in JDAM production after September 11. As production rates drop dramatically, what are you doing to sustain the U.S. industrial base and to ensure it retains the capacity to surge again, when…

the current strategy is untenable.

JIEDDO remains the DOD lead for a whole-of-government approach to IED threats, which highlights that there are many stakeholders with an interest in counter-IED capabilities.

Our Nation's historical experience of pursuing cost savings by cutting military compensation has demonstrated that periods of designed reduction in overall compensation levels resulted in retention problems.

The present budgetary situation forces the Army to focus training resources on next to deploy units.

The threat is very real and needs to be corrected--needs to be addressed.