Of breaching the debt ceiling by august 17th, i think the resolution of the two are getting tied to each other because just because of the deadlines and ultimately, you know, that might be something that Speaker Boehner has to decide for himself, does he push forward a clean debt ceiling increase and a continuing clean resolution in order to get it passed to prevent the catastrophe from happening. Likely losing or most certainly losing the speakership as a consequence. 75billion even with sequestration, theres 75 billion more down we can go to get to where the historic bottom cycle is over the last four cycles in defense spending. Is defense spending going to get further cut as we look at doing a grand bargain which everybody says is likely not a grand bar done but bargain but at least a longterm solution you see that, the troughs after each peak we come down to a trough and you can draw a line out and youll see that, you know, history were to repeat itself which it doesnt but it often
This is for the secretary and the chief, youve all talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. Im hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year and do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp . I would say its very early to be speculating about where we will land by 2023 so i dont think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. We have started this prep course , the early results of that look promising. And depending on how that plays out in the next month or two i think we will look at expanding that to some additional training sites which would obviously help us. Another thing weve done is weve partnered with our recruiting brigades so that frankly we are increasing the profile at events across the United States. We will also be increasing the marketing that we spend and we have very datadriven analysis t
Modernization. This is about 45. Good morning this is for secretary and to the sheet chiefs. You talked about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. I am hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year, do you have an assessment whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp. Thank you. I would say it is very early to be speculating about where we will land at the end of fy 23. I do not think we are in a good position to answer that question. In terms of what we will be doing the next few months, we have started the future soldier prep course. As i said at the early results look pretty promising. Depending on how that plays out in the next month or two, i think we will look at expanding that two additional training sites, which would help us. Another thing we have done is, we have partnered the full power of force, with our recruiting brigade. We are just i would say increasing the p
We are pressed for time so to the extent youre able to please limit it to one follow up and be respected over those in the room. Please lead off with your name. Im not getting give opening remarks. Im guessing you all heard all you want and want to get the questions. Open it up to you. We are ready to go. Good morning. This is for the secretary and the chief, youve all talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. Im hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year and do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp . I would say its very early to be speculating about where we will land by 2023 so i dont think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. We have started this prep course , the early results of that look promising. And depending on how that plays out in the next month or two i think we will look at expan
Done. As far as airports we have delays in newark, which will happen all the time even without a storm command we have delays in san francisco. Aside from that the airports are looking really good. That one storm is moving out but as it goes its bringing a lot of weight. These are the current wind gusts gusts. 53 in chicago. Really windy conditions, thats thats still not causing villas across airports around chicago. This air map does move off towards the east tomorrow morning in the parade of the balloons might either have to be really low or not go up at all. Hopefully they will be able to go but we are going to see wind probably 30 miles or so across new york city in the morning. Temperature wise beyond the storm certainly does cool, not horribly cold anywhere theyve been getting a ton of storms, that storm was gone but we start to move our attention across parts of westward. Its going to have so much bigger impacts for us this second storm, that one is gone this is the second storm