Engagements are and what the price being paid for those engagements really is. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this joint hearing of the readiness and cpower and Projection Forces subcommittees of the House Arms Services committee to order. First, i would like to honor the 17 sailors who were lost in the uss fitzgerald sailors douglas, noe hernandez, and dakota rigsby, Carlos Victor subayung and the two uss john mccain sailors, kevin bushel, dustin doyen, timothy drake, charles finley, john hogeland, Abraham Lopez and kenneth smith, logan palmer and each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causal factors that have led to gruesome and tragic incidents involving ships resulting in the death of 17 sailors. Our navy remains most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As sales james mattis stated in august. Quote, it creates unpr
Spee5 the hearing of the Readiness Forces subcommittee of house and Armed Services committee come to order to honor the 17 sailors lost in the uss fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, hernandez, martin, rigby, and the ten uss mccain sailors, bushnell, drake, echoes, thinly, hoagland, ingram, lopez, smith, palmer and each one is so special and i know every person here. Over the course of the past six months the subcommittee has met to understand the factors that led to the gruesome and tragic incidents with the surface ship resulting in the death of 17 sailors. We remain confident in the is the most powerful in the world. But it is not alone in the responsibility as the secretary mentioned in august it is in unpredictability that makes us rigid we cannot deal with new and revealing threats. We know enemies are not standing still. Passing another temporary measure compounds the negative impacts for the military some of those are highlighted by the certification gaps necessitated by increased operatio
Good afternoon. I call this joint hearing of the readiness and subcommittees of the House Armed Services together. I would like to honor the 17 sailors lossed in the uss fitzgerald. And also the ten uss john s. Mccain sailors. Each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months, our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causeative factos that have resulted in the death of 17 sailors. Our men remain confident that our navy remains the most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As secretary james mattis stated in august, it creates unpredictability and makes us rigid. We can not deal with new and revealing threats. We know our enemies are not standing still, end of quote. Passing another temporary measure compounds the negative impacts for our military. Some of those impacts are highlighted by the demanding training and certification gaps necessitated by increased operational demand. Speake
Im the chair of the special Investigative Committee and thanks for joining us for this very special book for him. What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know the American Veteran centers presenting the Andrew Goodpaster award and i want to turn it over to jim roberts. [applause] thank you very much tom peter. And officers of the army and navy club thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen on behalf of my colleagues at the American Studies Center i welcome you to the armynavy club for the presentation of the eighth annual Andrew Goodpaster award named after he read rate american and presented to another Great American Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters retired. Before her proceed further i would like to say that we are honored by the presence of Andrew Goodpasters granddaughter and her husband matt. Would you please stand. [applause] is great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpaster family here. I would also like to th
Thanks, everyone, for making the time to come over here in this first day of congress being back in town, which i assume is a busy time for everyone. First, im just going to introduce our guests and then explain to everybody a little bit. If youre here by accident and you dont know what brack is to my left is the assistant secretary of defense for energy and installations of environment at d. O. D. He also served as a professional staff member at the House Armed Services committee. A brac round involves establishing a cry tie criteria evaluation of possibly closures. Th the first round of brac took place in 1988 followed by three consecutive rounds in 1991, 1993 and 1995. The fifth round take place in 2005. 12 years later, a new round of brac is part of the political discussion. The need is paced on estimates that we currently have over 20 of excess infrastructure. To talk about why we need a brac n now, the secretary is going to be able to inform us on that. I appreciate it. Thank you