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Good afternoon. I call this joint hearing of the readiness and subcommittees of the House Armed Services together. I would like to honor the 17 sailors lossed in the uss fitzgerald. And also the ten uss john s. Mccain sailors. Each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months, our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causeative factos that have resulted in the death of 17 sailors. Our men remain confident that our navy remains th...

3. Even higher snow totals are expected near petersburg and richmond. Again, for most of the viewing area, this will be a rain event. We would not be surprised with the rain at times, but overall, it will be rain. Some of the rain could be heavy at times late tonight through friday ponding on roads. Other than the potential for rain and snow, the winds will be howling once the low moves offshore and strengthens. Northnortheast between 20 and 30 mph friday, with gusts up to 40 mph. Watch out for ...

An Army Aviation Restructuring Initiative both of those combine to be 6 billion. If we dont get those reforms. Were going to have to find 6 billion, and find another half a billion for brac, thats who it costs every year for excess infrastructure. If we dont get those things, were going to have to find that money somewhere. Great thank you. For navy and marine corps, it is slowing down the growth of pay and compensation. Its we simply have to do that. We are at the point where were choosing betw...

Governor but if you have a noncorporate of legislature is hard to get your agenda passed. You raise a good point. Lets talk about how we got into this mess. Haley barbour i believe when he was chair of the Republican Party made a decision that democrats didnt pay enough attention to which was in the best in electing legislatures, legislators and republican governors for a lot of reasons he wanted to do it but when reapportionment comes up we can bridge line in congress and have a bunch of people...

Down their driving ships around the caribbean trying to do interdictions, but back in 98 i had a chance to do a Diplomatic Mission going into venezuela and colombia. At the time venezuela was very friendly with us and accept this in there. When we pulled into columbia, quite a different situation. Was one of the few towns you could go around in safely. I have had the chance to watch how planned columbia has worked, the partnerships were developed with the colombians. In fact try have been down t...

Workers as defense related factories wind down production. It is to allocate an additional 10 million to the office of economic adjustment from the general operations and Maintenance Fund. The office of economic adjustment helps communities across america when a factory shuts down. Over the last decade of war, middleclass factory workers have stepped up to the plate to make sure our troops on the battlefield have the weapons and equipment they needed as we transition away from two long wars and ...

The U.S. Navy has a growing problem with manning, and is on track to miss recruitment targets for the second year running. At the deckplate level, the...

The Navy is testing out a program to embark therapy dogs aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships.

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The Navy is mulling how it could push more ships into a fight and sustain them once there, as it considers what a modern wartime footing looks like.