Patience and waiting for us to get done with the vote. Mr. Child, lets hear your testimony. Thank you. Chair woman hartzler, Ranking Member speier, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss capability gaps in the Afghan National Security Forces. As the Deputy Inspector general for overseas Contingency Operations i manage the dod oversight for Operation Freedom Sentinel in afghanistan. As the chair of the interagency southwest asia joint Planning Group i helped coordinate oversight over the several Inspector Generals in afghanistan. I serve a similar role for Operation Inherent resolve. The iraqsyria counter isil mission. I describe my role in more detail in my written state. Regarding Afghanistan Security forces my observations are based on oversight and recent published reports. We view this as two fold. Balancing the requirements to provide near term fighting capability against a longer term need to build the afghans capacity to sustain their
Military. And we make a as you know, our Quarterly Report is the largest data call that goes out every year to the u. S. Government, or every quarter on whats going on. When we ask these questions, were not getting answers anymore because stick ka, because our resources in the field are not there to answer them. Youre on to a very important part that goes beyond the literacy issue. It goes to the heart of the issue and that is do we have adequate resource to understand the capabilities of the andsf. Thank you. Anyone else want to comment on that . Compared to two years ago i think if threat to our personnel who are serving in afghanistan has grown. And im particularly concerned about our embassies wity and th inability of our personnel to move around the city of kabul or even well or anywhere else. So my first question is, do you think that the danger there has increased, and what if anything can we do to mitigate those concerns . So, since the drawdown of u. S. And Coalition Forces, t
For closer support stick these lawsuits are costing us more is the point. The at wed we pulled down the troops that 5500 when we pulled the soldiers out, how many are being replaced with contractors . Going at 5500 but look at what theyre doing with that support capability. The bids that it seems to me to pull this down to have that perception as long as they have fewer menander limited uniform would you pull down that be into it to said contractors back kid to do that say meet its threeyear four times as much as we paid u. S. Service personnel were not being honest with the cost is impossible to calculate how much more we spend on contractors as u. S. Troops . Big we have space done that type of assessment to take a specific contract or a specific program run by a the military then compare the cost. If i could make one final point it creates the problem with the United States soldier who makes a couple of thousand dollars a month sitting right next to a contractor who makes 10,000 a m
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