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I call this joint hearing of the subcommittee of the house of Armed Services committee to order. We are here in honor of memory of the seven uss fitzgerald. Enate sailors and the 10 uss John S Mccain sailors. We are very grateful we have a mother here with us today. We send to you our give his sympathies and profound sorrow for your loss and appreciation for your sons service to our nation. I want to welcome our members to todays hearing. Recognizeespecially that we have with us the committee chairman, donald mac thornberry. He has been the leader of our ongoing efforts to mitigate our militar...

We are very grateful we have a mother here with us today. We send to you our give his sympathies and profound sorr for your loss and appreciation for your sons service to our nation. I want welcome our members to todays hearing. I want tespecially recognize that we have with us the committee chairman, donald mac thornberry. He has been the leader of our ongoing effortto mitigate our military Readiness Challenges and i want to thank him for his leadership and for being here today to heaabout the challenges in limited by the tragic collisions in the pacific. I also want to send a warm welcome to...

Suvayan. And the uss john mccain sailors. Were very grateful that today, we have ms. Rachel echols with us, we send you our deepest simp sympathie sympathies. And i want to especially recognize, we have with us the committee chairman, chairman thornberry. The leader of efforts to mitigate the military Readiness Challenges. And i thank him for being here today. I also want to send a warm welcome to congresswoman elizabeth estes. And full Committee Members have had an opportunity to ask questions. Is there an objection . As we begin todays unkplaclassd hearing, i have no doubt that our navy rema...

The ocean is the british used to say who know a thing or two about naval the british say the oceans are one. They connect everywhere. So tonight as we talk about the oceans i invite you to think about 70 that water world that we inhabit today. What im going to do is very quickly im going to take 20 minutes and were going to walk through the ocean of the world and try to tie it together with the challenges we face and then what we ought to do about it. So lets start with the pacific ocean. This is a 1589 chart of the pacific by a a photographer bottom right you see who voyaged 5,000 miles, 10,0...

He is the author of seven prior books. This is his eighth. And over 100 articles about naval procedures, leadership, and geopolitical issues. Even his wife, larura, is an author. Since retiring the supreme colonel and from the navy, he has been the dean at the Fletcher School of law at the tuft university. The very same place he got his doctorate. He has been given 15 civilian awards from around the world for his work and within the last 11 months, he has been considered for a Vice President ial pick by one Political Party and as secretary of state by another Political Party. I find that [laug...