Jack Reed

Are you confident that you have the systems in place to prevent the cyber aspects of the aircraft from being compromised and confident that at this point they are not?

I ask through the Chair if the Senator from Vermont would yield for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

It seems to me that now given the technology, particularly the distance learning, that the marginal cost of a military student is very close to zero.

Sorry, we can't support you with tuition assistance.

We could come in and say, 'There is a new max.' Or, we could come in and say, 'There has to be a correlation.'

We are providing public resources for the benefit of service men and women, that we are subsidizing them, not private enterprise necessarily.

We stopped that. You could talk to almost any of our schools today, they are focused on retention.

You've got to advertize. You've got to make students, the military students aware of these options.

Thank you for your service, by the way, as well as for your testimony today.

I just have a problem of being honest with cold calls anyway.

So essentially, again, and I don't want to be too glib, but you were able to call them and say, 'I've got a deal for you. It's not going to cost you anything. Signup right now, we'll make it real easy for you.'

You should, I think, consider that because I think that would draw attention to those institutions which are meeting and exceeding your expectations and those that aren't.

I think that is something important.

We think that is important. I mean, we are a sector that believes everybody in higher education ought to be held to outcomes.

Do you do any analysis of the correlation between the tuition charged to the servicemember and the full cost of instruction?

You're making a terrible mistake, and we are not going to support you in this?

I would suggest that you might consider it.

What kind of financial aid counseling do the military personnel get?

This looks like a, you know, I forget the David Mamet play that the guy in the boiler room saying, you know----

In your conversations with military students, did you stress the fact that there were public programs available before any private loans that would be available to them?

Wouldn't that be helpful?

It strikes me that the most reliable and independent advisor would be the educational advisor in the military.

It is about accountability.

When that is sort of the average experience of a woman in the military, a culture of harassment is created, and sexual predators will thrive in that culture.

If the chain of command wants to retain these powers under UCMJ, it has to be a chain of command that is accountable.