Please stand and be recognized if you could from any other era. [applause] we have an Incredible Group of friends with us tonight. Cspan is here filming tonights event. I want you all to be on your best behavior. Cspan is forever. Paul, stand one more time. [applause] and ted is here with our friends from california. He has been involved with the Summer Teacher Institute and now the guy on the site for all things specific. Graduating from the university of missouri after which he served four years in u. S. Army during the vietnam war as a platoon leader of the 101st airborne division. Then graduated from the georgetown law center. I met him on History Channel shoot. I thought he was already pretty famous. I wasnt i thought he was 200 percent nice to me then he had to be. He is an expert in his field he make sure you become an expert in the field. Hes a compelling speaker but also one of the nicest people anyone has ever met and thats the best thing of all. Tonight he will be speaking a
Have been with an average age of 25th. Averages average. That means quite a few of the fleet are substantially older. The shocking statistic, more than half of our our forces are not sufficiently ready today for our highend play. Interfere with you. You did your defenses and the like. More than half of our forces are not sufficiently. I think we also realize that demand we do that and alltime high all around the certainly its dangerous complex and constantly changing the that i can ever remember in the 34 years that i have been. Have to join my colleagues and say that a budgetary trajectory that resulted in sequestration is not going to allow us to sustain the space. Let me now do my plays became. I believe sequestration is going to place american lives at greater risk at home and abroad. Sequestration remains the law of the land in the United States air force simultaneously be able to defeat in adversary and one for cant deny a 2nd adversary the objective a seat as well is the from th
And signer and nuclear and signs and technology and readiness and people. In other words, i think everything is threatened mr. Chairman, under sequestration. And most of all i fear that american lives would be at risk. So i ask you again, please continue your leadership to get sequestration lifted permanently. Please keep on pushing. Thank you very much, and we all look forward to your questions. Thank you. Im going to ask the staff to put me on the clock because i have really one question directed to each of the Service Chiefs. At our retreat general dempsey said, and he said we could quote him the budget request was the lower ragged edge of what it takes to defend the country. If you were talking to my con state opportunities or our colleagues who dont deal in this area every day and had one minute to describe what the consequences to the country would be for not approving the amount that the president the administration has asked for for department of defense or your service how wou
The level of the attention in both houses of congress and id like to see what your responses. Congressman the unit as an air force reserve will be leaving. The intent is to take this c130 j. s and put them in little rock arkansas. General jackson would tell you there is a problem with recruiting in that area in his reserve unit. He would also tell you is this it before every decision we are making right now hurts. They have to did downsize as well. This move would save them 23 million a year. It would save them about 600 oddities because of the wing that leaves. It allows them to save a 10 milliondollar a year air Service Support agreement. The active air force component would leave the air Mobility Operations Group there to run the green ramp to schedule and oversee the airlift that comes in today to help do a lot of the training for the second airborne. A higher percentage of the training is done by aircraft that come in to support the second airborne as opposed to just the airplanes
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