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Ladies and gentlemen, were going to get started here. Ladies and gentlemen, im captain hope cronin, air force public affairs. Thank you for being with us. First, just to reiterate ground rules. One question, one followup, please, so we can get to as many questions as possible. Additionally, ill give a final question towards the end. As a reminder, tomorrow at 9 30 in the morning well have the air force space budget rollout, that is a separate budget rollout. If you would like more information about that, please find me afterwards and ill give you further details. Without further ado, ladies an...

Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious c...

I think we know that from everything we do. The more training you have the more muscle memory you have the better able you are to execute your job no matter what it is. And if i could pile on, theres a great responsibility we have to do things different and better as well. We cant expect to be different. Training is where that development the done. That is where we learn new or effective ways to fight or more efficient ways to fight. This is learning how to fight in the future. It is extremely important. I dont want to send one more Service Member unprepared. Thank you gentlemen for being with...

Eastern on cspan2s book tv. Next, the army, navy, air force, and marine corps chiefs testify before the House Armed Services committee about their budgets. They also discuss the impact of repeated continuing resolutions instead of longterm appropriations for the military branches. Committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the bud...

And more than a dozen others injured after the school bus crashed into a tree. This happened in chattanooga. Dave Courvoisier that driver. Johnthony walker is facing several charges. Including vehicular homicide and reckless driving. The children on the bus all from an elementary school. The oldest in fifth grade. The youngest in kindergarten. Pictures from the scene show the bus wrapped around a tree. Crushing it. certainly speed is being investigated very very strongly as a factor in this crash. This has been a great tragedy for us. We have suffered a great loss today. Everyone in our commun...