10/07/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"I have a hard time explaining why we do this, and it seems to me with a rapidly changing world that our military is not changing with it."
"What allowed us to do that was air supremacy, the ability to project power onto land. That is increasingly challenged now."
"Now, to go down to an Army of 450 with increasing commitments... could we sustain 170,000 soldiers overseas for contingency?"
"It seems like you all are only looking at the enlisted operators for the Global Hawk fleet, when the severe shortage of operators are with the Predator and the Reaper."