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Opioid epidemic. After that, a border oversight hearing. Yesterday the United Nations called for the lift on the u. S. Embargo against cuba. Several Defense Department nominees testified at conformation hearing earlier. Well hear from mark esper asked about Army Readiness and Sexual Assaults in the military. The Senate Armed Services committee is chaired by arizona senator, john mccain. Good morning. Senate Armed Service s committe meets to consider the nominations of mark t. Esper for secretary of the army. Personnel of red naez. Joseph to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And gu...

Service, has been tested. Routinely theyve proven their courage, skill and determination. The burden imposed on our soldiers only gres as threats to our nation increase and sequestration remains the law of the land. Given current operational demands, restoring readiness must be the armys First Priority. Weve made some progress this year towards improving ready brigads ready for deployment. But the army still does nautd plan to return to full Spectrum Readiness until 2021 at the earliest. Meanwhile, the army is woefully behind on modernization and our soldiers are increasingly unprepared to con...

John s. Mccain iii good morning. The Senate Armed Services Committee Held a confirmation hearing for several Defense Department nominees. Among them was mark espers to be the next Army Secretary. Other nominees included the defense undersecretary for intelligence and for personnel and readiness and the assistant defense secretary who advises on weapons of mass destruction to i would like to say that ive been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense and the administration being cooperative and responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the D...

Say is under the control of extremist groups like isil . Isil and daesh control the area in and around sirt. I couldnt give you exact percentage. The other places have transitory effect. Would you consider libya at this point a failed state . Yes, sir. Thank you all very much for your service. Thank you, mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses. I echo the comments about the appreciation for the service. The many times you have been before this committee. General rodriguez, i want to ask a couple of questions touching on each of your expertise about the training we do with foreign militaries ...

The down button is not working. There we go. Thank you. Steve, its i had to push the kirby button. Its a pleasure to see you back on that end. Thank you for joining us today. We will turn it over to you. Good morning. Good morning, jeff. Good morning, Pentagon Press corps. So ive got a brief Opening Statement and well jump into questions. On march 8, the 82nd Airborne Division relinquished command of the combined joint force Land Component command to the 101st Airborne Division air assault. That happened during a ceremony here in baghdad, like i said, on 8 march. The mighty all americans of th...