As a veteran myself, but particularly as a parent, to me, UAVs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, are so reassuring.

Thank you, Chairwoman Davis. And, indeed, I appreciate your efforts that nobody is going to be cut short.

If JPAC were resourced and funded to expand the number of detachments it could field, would you still object to deploying JPAC detachments to improve the personnel recovery process of the 80,000 World War II POW/MIAs?

To what extent should your budget be protected from budget cuts in the year of execution?

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.

I believe we must make changes in the personnel accounting system that will dramatically increase the number of annual identifications by a factor of three to five.

To what degree is the Hawaii location of the Central Identification Lab contributing to your difficulties in recruiting and retaining qualified specialists like anthropologists?

You will be gone from your position well before any implementation of the study's recommendations.

any congressional authorization that we get--a congressional mandate is most helpful to us, particularly as we try to gather the resources needed to do any extra missions.

And Admiral, I am particularly happy to hear of the cooperation with the government of India, which is now a very strong strategic ally of the United States.

And both you have identified advances in technology--the clavicle identification.