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Much for the question. Wendy spent a lot of time talking about that very issue that you raised in your question, and as we thought through all the transition assistant kind of challenges that a Service Member faces when theyre transitioning out we took all of that into consideration, and im going to ask commissioner Chris Kearney to talk to the specifics of that. Thank you mr. Chairman. Once again, the colleague to my right, when we took into consideration retirement and we did know harm of one of the mandates given to us. The senator also mentioned something very important that we dont try to...

That i think the point needs to be made here is if you look at where we are, for example, the president s budget which was just submitted, by 2021, what we are paying in interest will exceed the defense budget. As i look at the work that you have done on the Bipartisan Commission and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall, looking at the bigbudget, mandatory spending, programs that we need to have similar looks at medicare, Social Security, very important programs to people, i appreciate that you have done all this work. We are looking at our military stepping forward firs...

Forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Say to my good friend steve that i used to sit next on on the House Armed Services committee that i agree with you except im more concerned with todays war than i am with the war after next. Right now is when were having the problems that were having and we had a hearing last week. We had schlesinger, george schultz, madeline albright. And they reminisced over what our abilities were, capabilities at that time, what is expected and even read the charge that president reagan had made at one time in determining what a Defense Budg...

I thought that was very good thing t was very much in our countrys interest. I think it has worked out well. But i think we have to wait and see what the president comes up with. And you know i dont know what that is going to be. I know at the moment the ayatollah and u. S. Congress are not making his life and that effort any easier. But, i i just urge you once again, weve had many estimates of iranian capabilities. Im not persuaded given what i saw in iraq that we know much more about iran than we knew about iraq. I hope we do but i couldnt count on it and im not actively reporting that right...

Our guest today, general ann dunwoody, has scored a number of firsts. She is the first woman in u. S. Military history to achieve the fourstar rank, she was the first woman to command a battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division, and she was the first woman to command the combined arm support command. For the last four years of her active duty, ann helded the u. S. Army material command. Now retired, she was in charge of the Largest Global Logistics Command in the army comprised of 69000 military and civilians located in all 50 states and more than 140 countries. She managed a budget of 60 billio...