Are we too heavy into just take this prescription and then take two or three more?

What specific efforts are being taken by DOD to ensure a mission-ready IT workforce?

Thank you for being here today. This is hard to do, and I appreciate your courage in coming and letting us ask questions...

overmedication of veterans has been a recent concern.

We have worked very hard to show it as a gender neutral disorder.

Finally, I would like to go back to Ms. Kenyon's testimony.

My preference would be that DOD come to us with recommendations about installations like they do anything else.

The White House and DOD, from 2016 going forward, has asked for sequester relief, not sequester elimination.

If we were able to determine, for example, that folks in the military who are seeking treatment for mental health issues, PTSD or others, were dramatically more medicated than those who were seeking mental health services in the civilian…

one of the concerns that I've expressed to the VA Secretary is reducing the wait time for a veteran to schedule an appointment, particularly those veterans with symptoms of PTSD.

I would just recommend that to your attention that might be fixed or might have been an aberration, might have just been one VA hospital.

In a sexual assault within the military, if there is a close connection between colleagues, your superior, a sexual assault within your unit is the sundering of a relationship that you had an expectation that was a relationship based on…

Our research capacity depends upon people, but it also depends upon having the infrastructure we need to do the R&D.

It is very easy for victims to start blaming themselves because they don't know the perpetrator.

I think you guys do a good job of trying to publicize to Active Duty and veterans suicide prevention hotlines within DOD and VA.

If the Middle East is to see any kind of stability, that cannot continue.

I asked the previous panel the question of whether in its internal politics in Lebanon, Hezbollah has been affected or seen any erosion of its political support because of the decision to go all in in the Syrian civil war.

For us that means and maybe for U.S. policy, yes, it has been survivable so far but, A, we need to stem the flow and, B, we need to find ways to get those people starting to go back either in a resolved Syria or safe havens, you know, get…

The United States is still the biggest player in the region.

We spent time with the new Prime Minister talking about the formation of the government.

the way you describe this challenge, the International Support Group that was convened is looking at this dynamic where, instead of emergency relief, as the conflict in Syria stretches longer, they need to possibly change the kinds of…

The selection of the President is also different than we might think of it here.

I just cannot help but comment that only the acronym 'happy'--the U.S. military could use the phrase 'LAF' with a straight face.

The regime in Syria has proven willing to fight to the last Syrian, to destroy all of Syria.

We cannot at all be complacent. We can be thankful that we survived these 3 years.