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Is to take the pressure off of civilian hospitals when it comes to trauma cases for. Nfectious diseases all the doctors and nurses come from our medical facilities or they come from the reserves which means civilians, so we have to be careful as we call the units or use them that we , i dont want to take reservists from a hospital to take them somewhere they are needed. We talked about that and i think people are beginning to see what the tradeoff means. The white house says they dont want to have the guard go hotspotse and focus on. Is that what you are looking at early on . Tags and it isir a resource available at their fingertips. Chance to talk to the director of the National Guard bureau. Tags andking to the that is available to them. We are the ones where we can come in and really help enable through the guard and reserve to play that role initially. Of the coordinate through various federal agencies. Is that something you are considering . , the daytoday meetings general heiden
Held him until or is responding to the outbreak. The subcommittee hearing is one hour and a half. Tom todd inaudible Surgeon General of the United States air force mr. Cavity assistance secretary of defense world ealth Affairs Lieutenant ronald shea pace, director of the fence Health Agency and mr. Systems. Bill inaudible program executiveve health care and management systems. Ted today we have serious quests on how medical reforms have accounted for on the president s budget for fiscal 2021. Ng as b you will notice we will hae numbers coming inn and out. We are getting briefings on o covetedn bu 19 as we speak and other meetings going meon. And your full testimonies we will get started across thebudgt spectrum of military Health Care System for military readiness to benefit care, and manydeci cases budget justifican slacks that detail. For the subcommittee to make informed decisions. We hope the Witnesses Today can address the subcommittees questions and concerns at a particular inter
The Committee Meets today to receive testimony from the department of defense fiscal year 2021 budget request. Welcome our witnesses and thank them for their service in both dr. Mark esper and general mark we have a pair of marks in this morning. This committees top priority is ensuring the effectiveness of the National Defense strategy. Thats our vote that we had heard, adhere for a long period of time now. About three years. Unfortunately, the last administration we ask our military to do more with less and that got us into trouble between 2012 and 2017 we lost 150 billion to sequestration. Our Defense Budget in the readiness of our forces were devastated. I think we all understand that. As a result, when President Trump came to office, he inherited American Military and crisis, thankfully he delivered on his promise to begin rebuilding the u. S. Armed forces. He negotiated the highest level of defense spending ever, a down payment toward getting our military back to where it needs t