Help up here on the hill and we lose months. We move loose four, five, six months to hire Replacement Program or we dont have time. So shipbuilding gets held up. Projects get held up. People were tired and that loses that trust with the industry. So precluding getting sequestered as helpful and in the continuing resolutions having a similar effect in that we are not doing any new projects and some of these are pretty critical as we move into the years and need to modernize. Senator the first comment i would make is over the last two years where above the level of sequestration and the army was only 33 ready. And so yes flexibility will give us the ability to manage insufficient funds in our department but thats all it does. It allows us to better manage because today we extend our aviation programs so the cost for every apache has gone up to the cost for every ua 60 has gone up. The cost for every ch47 has gone up because we have extend the programs longer and longer so we are paying m
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 comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of the a10 are the capabilities of any other of our Weapons Systems yes or no . No maam, not at all and there is an investigation currently ongoing with the incident. When i read the newspaper article i contacted the general officer invo
Much for the question. Wendy spent a lot of time talking about that very issue that you raised in your question, and as we thought through all the transition assistant kind of challenges that a Service Member faces when theyre transitioning out we took all of that into consideration, and im going to ask commissioner Chris Kearney to talk to the specifics of that. Thank you mr. Chairman. Once again, the colleague to my right, when we took into consideration retirement and we did know harm of one of the mandates given to us. The senator also mentioned something very important that we dont try to balance the banks on the back of the missionary. Some of the programs we could talk about this in further committees later on if you want to, but when we talk about ramp programs programs, we dont transition to something that might cost a little more to retiree or Service Member, that it would be built up over 15 years, for example. One of the things that we thought was vitally important in all t
The committee will come to order. We have individuals who would like to disrupt the hearing. So i will ask our spectator who is are here to observe the hearing today to observe the courtesy of allowing us to hear. If cause a disruption, which you usually do, we will have to ask you to leave. I dont know what the point is but if you do, i would ask you to for your courtesy to hear what our distinguished panelists have to say who have served our country with honor and distinction. I hope you would respect that. So we will move forward. The Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today. We will receive testimony on the impact of the budget control act of sequestration on u. S. National security. I am grateful to our witnesses not onlt for appearing before us today, but also for their many decades of distinguished service to our country in uniform. I also appreciate their sincere and ernest attempts over many years to warn the congress and the American People of what is happening to our Arme
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