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Absolutely. Yes senator. General wasser wants to ask you about comments that have come to my attention that were reported to have been made by Major General james post the Vice Commander of air combat command and he is reported to make these comments when addressing a group of airmen this month. What he is said to have made in comments to the airman was anyone who was passing information to congress about a 10 capabilities is committing treason and is part of those comments he also said if anyone accuses me of saying this i will deny it. Let me ask you this general welsh. Do you find those com...

That youre in. I guess the only other comment i. Would like for you to answer, because id like all my y colleagues to be able to have time to answer questions is the old line about those of us that ignore the lessons of history. General odierno, you made reference to it. When general shymire came beforell this community and said we had amembe hollow army, i know my friend ere senator reed remembers that also and we were able to recover hardwarewise and ships and airplanes and guns and but it took a lot longer than that to restore the readiness and the morale of members of our military and all ...

Combination of efforts with the local indigenous governments, going to require efforts from training and indigenous force and support from us for a very long period of time. And it is going to require continued assessments and adjustments on how we believe we will continue to support that effort. I think over time if that threat continue, we have to reassess what our strategy is, so thats the hard part about it. This is not a short term problem, it is a longterm problem. It is going to take a longterm dedicated effort to solve it across many different lines of effort, whether it be through dip...

Have the same concern you all do on our war fighting capabilities. When you look at the difficulties in syria, and iraq, and that area, what are the kind of things were not able to do there that you look and you go, if we were doing this, and this, it would really help move the ball forward. Where are you being placed in a tighter spot right now . General odierno, if you give us a start. I would just say it is the first thing is this fight against iraq and syria is a longterm issue. This is not something resolved in weeks and months. Something that will have to be resolved in years. And it is ...

Happy holidays to you and all the members of the board day. Im looking forward to working with all of you through 2015 to advance our goals of making our city a place where families thrive and we can share the prosperity of our great city. Lets take a moment to acknowledge what weve accomplished in 2014 by working together. Thanks to the voters for making San Francisco by making it more affordable to our families with an increased minimum wage. Were continuing record investments in our Public Schools and thanks to sound economic and fiscal constraint, economic policies. Ive asked for no cuts i...