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Caller it was encouraging for me when this gentleman took over the House Armed Services committee. It is a difficult time for our United States and our military one of the encouraging things is to have our guest in a position of influence. Sometimes, you spot somebody when they are new and you recognize that they are capable and will make a tremendous contribution to the nations interests over time. Because of their judgment, their integrity, their willingness to work. Their charity. Their understanding that congress is a place of people with different views and you have to understand how to p...

Four years later the squadron was operational and we built nearly 3,000 of them. Compare that to the f22. In 1981 the air force established a requirement for 750 advanced tactical fighters. It wasnt until 2005, 24 years later, that the f22 was first introduced and instead of 750 of them, we bought 195. If boeing can field a new commercial airliner in five years, and ford can take a car from design to production in 24 months, then theres absolutely no reason the pentagon should take two decades to put a new fighter into service. Things have to change. We have the unfortunate tendency to fix org...

In iraq, we were there on the ground collecting so we had data bases to use. The concern is in syria, the lack of our footprint on our ground in syria, that the data bases wont have the information we need. It is not the lack of process, it is the lack of information. And is there ways that you could suggest we go about trying to get this information . I just dont think you can go and get it. You are talking about a country that is a failed state. It does not have any infrastructure so to speak so all of the data sets, the police, the Intel Services that you would go and seek that exist dont e...

Right. I appreciate the work youve been doing. I was 26 years in the military and worked especially, dr. Rasmussen with your organization and my last assignment at u. S. Africa command running Current Operations there to include our counterterrorism operations. And im aware of yall dealing with the foreign fighting issue before people paying attention to it but we were watching it even back then, 20072010 where we had foreign fighters flowing from many places but into areas for al shabab Training Camps and aqap and north africa and ungoverned spaces as you know. And someone in the military, it...

The totals for before 22nd january 2009, when president obama signed the executive order and total after january 22nd 2009 referring to detainees who this is how the data break down. The total number is 17. 3 confirmed of reengaging. 12. 4 percent suspected of reen reengaging. Before january 2009, the numbers showed 19 confirmed and 14. 3 suspected reengaging for a total of 33 . The data after january 2009 shows that 6. 8 confirmed of reengaging. Six out of 88 transfers. 1. 1 suspected for a total of 7. 9. The rate of reengagement has been much lower, attesting to the rigor of this process. Of...