To provide the committee further assistance. Thank you very much. At after new chairman mccain, chairman graham, Ranking Member killer brand and members of the personnel subcommittee. It is a privilege to appear before you today at this initial hearing on Defense Health care reform and i hope my participation in todays hearing will be of assistance to you in the Defense Department as you seek to ensure the military Health System is strength in and is able to provide optimal support to those who wear the cloth of this nation, their families and those who are in the retirement benefit due to their careers service. I believe im a framework for reform is to begin with an assessment of what is working and not working. But the environmental conditions are like me to look like in the future, including the go to work capabilities and needs than what approach will likely ensure success in the future. For my nearly 20 years a Privilege Service at the site of dod and now va, this worm and up unti
Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o
Nation, their families and those who earned a retirement benefit due to their career of service. I believe any framework for reform needs to begin with an assessment of whats working and not working, what the environmental conditions are likely to look like in the future including the go to work the capabilities and needs and what approach will likely insure success in the future. For my nearly 20 years of Privileged Service at the side of d. O. D. And now v. A. I believe there are four fundamental questions worthy of explosions. First, does dodd have the most effective efficient Management Structure and tools to deliver on the needs . And is the investment in the direct care system being optimized . Theres a great deal of experience inherent in the footprint and the personnel required to establish the foot print. Theres great efficiency to be gained when sizing a system, hen making make vs. Buy decisions and croort cooperating appropriately and leasing when the leasing is broached. I
We have the today it was intense. Yeah. Ive got threes, and i listen to fighting all the time, so it didnt last very long watching the debates last night. This is very surreal, a president ial Campaign Like this is like none weve seen before. It just made me feel uncomfortable. Like go into a room, have some other. There are too many debates, dont you think . Like if you dont know who you want to pick right now, see who is the best at arguing with each other, huh . Zingers. What are not dropping off are some of these temperatures we have coming our way. Yeah, good morning to you. Gorgeous shot out there. Its going to be a pretty nice day today, except were going to add some winds later on today. Were still looking at about 71 degrees for a high today. A weak disturbance, tow, will pass to our north, and any shower activity will mostly stay to the north, but we will have those breezes today, and gusting up to about 75 or so miles per hour. This will fall apart. Not much of a shower chan
Take a look at where three crashes took place in Hillsborough County and one in pasco county today. Action air 1 was over the scene at usf, where deputies say a van struck and killed a homeless man this morning along bruce b. Downs boulevard. Deputies say the man stepped in front of that van. In river view, a motorcyclist died along u. S. 301 around 6 30 a. M. And investigators have not released his name. In pasco county, another motorcyclist killed after colliding with a tractor trailer around 12 30 a. M. Troopers say 24yearold daniel alero may have been speeding when he slammed into the rig. Good afternoon, everyone. Have some rain just beginning have some rain just beginning to pop up across the southern counties. What were tracking is this, some nasty weather with thunderstorms, Tornado Warnings across a good portion of the northern gulf coast from near the panhandle of florida, right on through mobile, alabama and into biloxi, mississippi. There is a marginal chance of pretty stro