By the end of 18, well in the army be down to about 233,000 of civilian employees. I havent done the exact math, but its roughly equivalent to the percentage reduction we have in our instrength as well. We cant do what we need to do as an army without these civilians doing it. You were very gracious in noting that, but do have to be in balance. When it comes to the operational force, youve stated it very correctly. Were challenged on all three of those legs right now, frankly. But particularly given the environment that were seeing across the globe and the likelihood of that next unforeseen thing, which is another thing that keeps me up at night, readiness has to be our number one concern at the moment. Weve managed our developmental programs. We have set aside our major acquisition programs for major developmental programs for the 2020s and beyond not because we think thats the best thing for our soldiers, but because its required by this fiscal reality. Rather what wed like to have f
Has been the policy of the committee to tonight putting anything in the record of whatever of any evidentiary value. So i understand that tradition and it is not my intention in the end to object. But i would like to note that if we are going to agree with this, we must also include the forensic report by the fusion group that analyzed the video showing that it has no evidentiary value. If the gentle woman wishes to offer that, i would be happy to put that in the record as well. That would be my request. Without objection both of those documents can be made a part of the record. And now recognize the gentleman from rhode island. Thank you to the witnesses for being here today and offering your differing viewpoints on this difficult issue, and i know the passion that accompanies both sides as well as passion from high colleagues. Im still struggling with what exactly this hearing is about. Issues have been raised with respect to the fetal tissue research. Its clear that there are establ
Purpose. Bunker buster bombs, im not sure how that contributes to that. An arms race, thats hard to measure. Im not sure the provision of military hardware contributes to the arms race. There are tons of scholarship about that, we will not get into that. If, with your permission it is only fair that i respond very briefly to these assertions that nasser made earlier that i quite respect. T is just useful to provide a counter argument to it. It is important for the debate here and over there as well. I think the central theme of what he is saying is that iran is misunderstood and if only be better understood it, it would be primarily defensive posture in the region things could be so much better. Fair enough we have a lot of misperceptions about that country. Some are failing. It is quite a notoriously opaque system over there. It is becoming increasingly easier to read through the long negotiations between the United States and iran. We know much better about iran today but there is st
The army reserve responded within 24 hours and had forces moving to the east coast. I provided dewatering units, Aviation Assets to help the National Guard and it worked just fine. Break. Go to d. O. D. , fema, eplows. 100 provided by the army reserve embedded in your fema regions. 50 it shall over 50 of the d. O. D. Are provided by the army reserve which is utilized routinely to defend the homeland in terms of complex catastrophes to support the Guard Brothers and sisters. That all happened in the National Defense act of 2012. Paul, before we go to you, judd, can you talk that from a National Guard angle . Yes, sir. In addition to what general talley mentioned about authorities in place a unique aspect of the air National Guard is our ability to operate under state active duty underneath the funding and control of the governors. The response capability exists. We saw it time and again across the 54. The Additional Authority that general talley mentioned, i might add in terms of contro
Coming hours after isil calls for jihad. A Historic Space Mission in jeopardy. New images showed just what it looked like on the surface of a a comet. Scientists face the experiment could end. Welcome to Al Jazeera America, im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Tensions flaring in the west bank, palestinians demonstrating, the israeli army firing tear gas to disperse the protestors. Our correspondent filed this report after moving for safety moments ago. You can see Israeli Security forces trying to disperse the crowd firing tear gas canisters and have been using stun grenades, as well. Again, this is a scene thats been going on here for the better part of a few hours. Again, as Israeli Security forces confront protestors, you can see, it is a pretty volatile situation, as they try to disperse these crowds. These crowds arent huge, they only number in the sevens, but againin the background is concessions made by the Israeli Government to allow people to pray at the mosque, many thought that