Leader development. You mentioned that is one of the most important components. [laughter] leader development. S. Leader development for you. [laughter] and why was that . And we also looking at the program, professional military education that occurs . Currently having just gone through this and other active officers attend resident courses. Could this also provide cost savings by integrating the dl forces to the active component to get cost savings for them and integrate the training that we achieve . Did you understand the question . [laughter] i did not get the actual. Sounded like the yankees fan. Of hate. Next question. Im just kidding. Using captains career fuller says an example theyre is a audio component and a resident component. Your question was, could we maximize opportunity for integration and collaboration, perhaps if we had guardsmen, perhaps more attending residence and also some active component experience a learning. And all of those courses throughout our pnc. Yap. So i dont want to let speak for the general. I think there is merit to that in terms of my collaboration and integration between the components. As we all know, when you are in training together in resident education together you build bonds and partnerships that lasted less time in some cases. The same thing could be true through, perhaps, cost savings and upper genevese. You also said something that is something that i wanted to drill in two. Distance education. Using captains career force this is a reserve components to my perspective on this. As we continue to partner with tradeoffs on what is the contents or, excuse me, not the content, but the duration of those forces. Captains career forces, if im current right now, and 80 our Distance Learning phase couple by a two week president phase double by another 80 our and another to lead residents face. So reserve component officers, the net effect is to complete that training, that critical training and the professional development. For two years, particularly if there are a Company Commander or in another position in trying to provide c2 for their unit. So it is an issue from the Army National guard that we continue to remain engaged. How do we best organize the professional military education forces to recognize the Customer Base that is participating in those courses . And all kidding aside, great questions. It is really a question for trade dot. I have this discussion with general colin and general perkins, the current commanding general for sure enough. And i have had a discussion with the chief. Some my opinion is and this actually, two and a half years ago, he as me, why did the units fail . And i said, well, a couple of reasons. One is the culture of our army. The second is it was just too hard to integrate. The and integrated process is over the last 13 years, fighting, but think about executive education. The best way to learn and to change the culture of a Large Organization like the army, to make it a total force cultured is education. So you need to have a one School System where the faculty are active guard and reserve and the student body are active guard and reserve. That is the only way. My opinion to the chief, yes call we can get some operational function command, but the better place to put the energy is of a multi compote approach. And that may mean we have to look at the new pli can make it more Distance Learning friendly which will actually save you money. And so have the same active guard and reserve, whenever it is, it does not matter. Youre the one school. Everybody gets cross pollinated. Both faculty and students. They look at that very heart, but that is one of the things in order to help change our culture and promote better policy. We appreciate it. And i will talk to you outside after words. I will be. We have a question on the right. Okay. I like the yankees. There my second favorite team. Congratulations. I was thinking about the yankees. Giants. Sorry. [laughter] that is too narrow. Yes, sir. I am the commander of the 47th combat support hospital. There are nine active duty combat support hospitals that are part of force. As far as i no there are 13 other reserves side. And tell about the mid 2000s it was standard for combat support hospitals to do it harc rotations once every other year. This was a means of specifically in sharing that the combat support hospital could, in fact, do is protect and defense in conjunction with the medical requirements in addressing civilians on the battlefield so we relied on those rotations to ensure that all of the combat support hospitals on the active and reserve side had standardized means of being certified he essentially to do their jobs. But those rotations went away. And having now been in command at the 47th for six months to my can assure you that on the active duty side to protect and defend smell has been largely ignored the to, support hospitals falling in. Eventually in afghanistan. I personally deployed to haiti in 1995 where we execute our own force protection in somalia. The first one to use containers to establish its perimeter and likewise in bosnia. So i actually guess i have a request as opposed to a question. That is that their jay our qc rotation or at a minimum some kind of ctc rotation be reestablished as a standard for combat support hospitals. We have been trying to get an in d. C. Rotation. Unfortunately we need to be requested. They dont want to request is because we are a space hog and have lots of lots of equipment that has to be moved. I wonder, gentlemen, if at a minimum you would take this issue back. Let me toss it over to jeff for his immediate answer. Let me take a look at it. Youre going to have to swear allegiance to the patriots. [laughter] the patriots and say go red sox. Say it three times really fast. [laughter] how bad you want this . Go red sox, go red sox, go red sox. I will take it on. [applause] i will honestly take a look at that. Talk to you a little bit about the combat support hospitals and their reserves. A great question. The short answer is committed as nothing to do with medical Service Corps or combat hospitals but how we get our nailers into the box. This has been a problem historical for a long time. It doesnt matter. Its a question of not having enough bandwidth to get them all into the box at a ctc rotation. So in order to do that we would have to expand and increase the number of rotations that were conducted. We cannot currently find that in the army based upon sequestration paresis sequestration is going to hurt all three components. So what we are doing is, the army reserve and first army general miller mentioned that cst yes, and these are not large, enabling exercises. , support hospitals. And they are often connected to ctc rotations. Just work with me here. First army is supporting that. The plug and play and participation with the Construction Program where your part even though youre not in the physical location. That is why we are doing now to give you that better experience. Dear charging eventually get you into the box itself. That wont happen likely for most of our inhalers and so we see some relief from sequestration. It is not the answer you want. Let me also just if i could. If you could help address. The strains with the combat support. Duct into the microphone. It does not matter. And system as described, they replicate the battlefield of the way back to communications. And number of exercises where we can get you to those exercises. With the outpouring that we provide to my have my own medical training taskforce that is specifically designed to overcome the nation. And the reserves. To help evaluate and give you all of the outpour and opportunities you want to protect it and evaluate the medical skills. So there is opportunity out there. That is what total force policy is all about, looking across the stovepipes and looking across the components and leveraging the capabilities of all three. I need to apologize. For some reason i am thinking of general miller. Forgive me. Thank you. This past summer we had to deploy out there simultaneously. They have a battalion. They give him a company of engineers to do again. It was awesome training, and we will sustain that. Said about 20, 25 minutes left, an effort to end too many questions or 21 minutes questions. I, my name is derek smith. Thank you, general command everyone in the panel for your discussion. I am glad that he jumped up here for a second. Wanted to piggyback off of what he said. [laughter] part of the Services LikeCompany Offers and productive of provides medical readiness. Was worry if he could expand have that is force protection. Medical readiness and how that fits into the forest policy you have been discussing today. Of the individual soldier rory talking about units of. For the soldier. The individual whom. Of the italian. You want to take that on . I can give even a perspective on that. First and foremost, the Army National guard assisted about eight booktv 87 medically record to five medically ready today. The highest of all three components so i can get that in there. [laughter] yankees fan. The lions as well. I would offer that if i understood your question, the linkage between an eds total force policy, the things we have been talking about, i think there is a direct link between the medical status of our men and women the surf and operational employment and engagement. If you dont have one, its difficult to have the other. So we have, and after this issue over 13 years to that historic high that i just talked about. So sitting here today if the general lee to reach out to an Army National guard unit he can have some assurance that the soldiers in that unit are medically ready to deploy, and that is operational readiness, that is part of being an Operational Reserve that the Army National guard is for army. It is critically important in my opinion that we continue to sustain the medical readiness in the Army National guard because the cost to rebuild that readiness when needed would be so much more. So i think the investment to sustain it is worth it. In terms of operational employment of the Army National guard. Medical readiness, the highest it has ever been for individual soldiers and the unreserve. It is going to go down. I have to cut the support for individual medical readiness support to individual soldiers, which means i will rely more than ever on general tucker and first army. I may have to cross level more because i could not take individual soldiers that are not medically ready. Remote sites and rely on general tucker tell me get them to that level of medical readiness. The bottom line is it wont be as responsive. I dont know if you want to add in. You know, we touch these type of subject very carefully. This is a unit chain of command responsibility. First army is not the unit chain of command. We conducted assistance on behalf of the force, commander. And so leave with it involved with medical wettest as we beginneth a notice of mobilization and begin to do but we call a joint assessment with an organization as they prepare. So we do a joint assessment and began analyzing their readiness as a unit commander says. We do to of those year. We did 37 38,000 this year. I will do about 21 and a half next year, about 15 the following year. Of course, some things may change, but specific to the point is that we get after individual medical readiness, the joint assessment as a unit gets mobilized, and we track that with the unit commander and his chain of command present all the way prior to mud and then through the mobilization. Just one point on that as far as the individual medical readiness is concerned and prior to, lets say, a mobile base to the mobilization alert at which time the alerted reserve component member would then be eligible for try care prior to that and at any time during their the reserve component can enroll in try care. And for 50 a month, you know, you can also address your medical readiness that way. So that is something that needs to be considered were talking about individual medical readiness is the availability of try care reserve select. Question at the front. Wicked red sox fan. On the question my question has to do with medical readiness functionally of the units themselves. I, too, was a combat hospital commander and a brigade commander. The one Enter Service workings that i saw work well with the medical units when the bullets hit the ground as far as surgeons doing trauma surgery, assistance learning how to assessed about a pass instruments. And years ago, not that many, we had a number of initiatives with kings county, new york with miamidade trauma center. I presently serve as the ambassador. And i am very well acquainted with a lot of the institutions who have expressed interest in having a reserve component physician and fs t members drill for lack of a better word under their auspices and the trauma centers. But it seems to have fallen into some sort of disarray. This was the type of thing that is an ambassador. The guidance on this type of training. So is there the possibility for potential now for reserve components positions to train alongside their active component counterparts in centers except for . Tell a lets just take that on. I am not as familiar with it as i probably should be. You are new. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, general. He is the director of the partisan initiative. Were actually doing is pretty have selected reserve units that have developed for our relationships with Public Hospitals, private hospitals, and they already knew the exchange and the training, coordinated battle sundries and locating various folks with a train at the hospital, the private Public Hospital and in units. So we are doing is an expanding pizza to your point. The plethora of trauma centers. Were always looking for them. You are to enable individual training. And talking about individual training or sending the f testees as an example. Of three in new england are on a diploma roster. And it would and everybody, if they could drill as a functional entity rather than wait until we come across. Were doing that for the mission, but from an operational perspective the jump in right there to your left, he is my 357. So hes got it. We can take those units and look at how we can plug and play into uses as a civilian capabilities in the boston area as a prep for missions. Thank you. Volunteer for service. Thats good. We have another question in the center. Question about the lagard reserve. Does it force, anticipate the commission on the Army Structure . And do you think is forced, anticipate what . That congress will ask for permission on the structure of the army overall. I have no idea. I am. So therefore i do not know if congress is going to commission. But maybe there are others out there. Again, i dont know. Steve has no . I have heard topic of it. I cannot speak for congress. I dont have any specifics to it. Maybe one of you guys. Have you seen anything . A bill and the house and the senate. Live up becomes law which we have established, they will report back this up to the elected leaders. I dont know whether it will become law or not. I dont know. I dont know if this going to happen are not. I dont know. Another question . Said on have any satisfactory answers for you. Another question. British Army Exchange officer. Hq ba. I would like to talk about in strain if that is okay to all the panelists. Currently the projections for the 2015 and 2017 and got forbid the sequestration and 2019 all have the upper portions of the active component, the National Guard component, and the Army Reserve Component almost identical at around 46, 34, and 20. The wrong order but the right numbers in percentage terms. Barry broadly agree and endorse those percentage split between those three components . And if any of them have an opinion as to whether there is a Tipping Point below which they would tend to disagree that they should stick with that percentage split. Jack, i mean, first of all, there is no one up here that is as adonis. So we cant predict for certain whether a sequestration will happen and not. So what the army has done, was secretary mccue has done and chief on the near has done for the total army is establish fundamentally which offense. We have options. Depending on the conditions that occur. We do know that if sequestration continues the numbers are going to not be good, but it wont just be a numbers game preserve will be numbers and strengths. What we are but it will be a lot of those things to readiness, so on and so forth. All of that collectively will suffer. Is it that support . Add all know. I hear that term all the time. I read the book. But all have a lot of time for concepts like that, but i dont know. The whole point of the book is you cant predict that to depart ahead of time. Canallers are getting from my store perspective and realized he just went through to pinpoint. So you cant figure it out ahead of time. That is part of the book. So i dont know. I cannot predict if that would be a Tipping Point. I do know that in my estimates, in my estimate in this situation as a senior leader, commander that sequestration would be not good for the readiness of the United States military at large and the readiness of the United States army in specific, and that is all components of the United States army. With respect to the options going forward, the numbers going forward, you know, the number access and the number why and the number see and their numbers after that. I would almost say at this point you are almost rolling the dice as to which one of those numbers will become the real number. And there is a lot of room between those numbers that people would talking about. Right now we are for active component, i will use that as the example, the we are also working the National Guard and reserve component pieces as well. But we figure that the base case for 90 in the active component side and then theres the possibility come with a significant possibility of going to and active component. And if sequestration continues you could see it go lower than that. And i have see