Their policies for those who report sexual misconduct. The Defense Advisory Committee is tasked with bringing its recommendations to the secretary of defense and Armed Services committee of congress. This is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] before we continue with our next panel, id like miss garvin to have the mic for a moment. During the break i had an opportunity to speak a little more to miss stolberg and asked her about her service dog and she authorized me to say how much the service dog has aided in her recovery and how important the dog is. And she pays for the dog out of pocket and did not have access to that as part of her recovery in any formal way so i thought it was important for us to know na piece of information in light of how much its helped in her recovery. Thank you. Okay. Were now going to begin with the briefing of the department of defense and military services expedited transfer policies. We have quite the distinguished panel. The only person is ms.
Report sexual misconduct. The Defense Advisory Committee is tasked with bringing recommendations to the secretary of defense. And the Armed Services committee of congress. This is an hour and a half. Before we continue with our next panel, i would like miss gar vin to have the mike for a moment. During the break i had the opportunity to speak further with hannah. Who spoke to us before. And asked about her service dog that she had with her. And i apologize for not thinking to ask her while she was there. She authorized me to share. How much the service dog has aided in her recovery. And how important the dog is. And she authorized he to share she paid for the dog out of the pocket. And didnt have access to that as part of her recovery. And any formal way. And so i thought it was important for us to know that piece of information in light of how much it helped in her recovery. Thank you. Okay. Woer now going to begin with the briefing of on the department of defense of military services
More from the Defense Advisory Committee meeting on Sexual Assault in the military. With remarks by representatives from the various branchs. On their policy for those who report sexual misconduct. The Defense Advisory Committee is tasked with bringing recommendations to the secretary of defense. And the Armed Services committee of congress. This is an hour and a half. Before we continue with our next panel, i would like miss gar vin to have the mike for a moment. During the break i had the opportunity to speak further with hannah. Who spoke to us before. And asked about her service dog that she had with her. And i apologize for not thinking to ask her while she was there. She authorized me to share. How much the service dog has aided in her recovery. And how important the dog is. And she authorized he to share she paid for the dog out of the pocket. And didnt have access to that as part of her recovery. And any formal way. And so i thought it was important for us to know that piece of
I think there is something to that. The way i would summarize it would be to say the United States is still the most powerful country in the world, but the margins of our lead are contracting. And what that means in terms of policy is that big problems in the world cannot be solved without the United States, but the United States can no longer be solving them alone or be dictating to others exactly how they get solved. So the premium in these coming years for the United States, i think, as the leading power in the world, is going to be on Coalition Building and alliance management. When we think about terrorism, think about cyber terrorism and big ideas of the chinese around the world i think the nature of our leadership is changing. It has to change. Ive written a lot about u. S. Power. At the end of the day when you add it all up, all the factors of power in the world, compare china, russia, United States, the United States still comes out ahead in almost everything, innovation, demo
We will be back. I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers of Disease Control and prevention with 30 years of Public Health and science and Emergency Response in medical Training Experience she now serves as the Deputy Director for the office of Public Health preparedness response thank you for being here. Next steve munro for the laboratory of science and Safe