Reporter things are starting to improve, the rain, sleet and snow has shut off. Now the task is to remove the snow. Its heavy wet snow. Its so heavy and wet, a lot of snow blowers will not get through it, so youll need a shovel. This will not be an easy task. This is by far the heaviest snow weve seen so far this winter season. Its so cold, the snows for the most part has been light and fluffy. Wilmington, you take the grand prize you picked up 6. 7 inches. Pike creek 6. 4. Mantua, 6 inches and ridley park 6 inches of snow. Now that everything has calmed down get out there and remove the snow from the driveways and the walkways, because we have a deep freezing coming overnight tonight. This is a heavy, wet snow. Make sure you stretch your muscles, a lot of this is common sense. Stretch your muscles shovel smaller loads you dont have to if i am the shovel up and be a he had a he, man. Take time theres no rush in removing the snow from the walk ways. Heavy rain is working out to sea. You
We are a lot further i touch this for all but over the last 10 years, senator, and were finally now starting to work on concrete, moving forward with a plan. I feel much better than i have in recent years. Thank you. I want to switch to follow on the question centered king had talked about in terms of the arctic. I will be a little more blunt. We have a dod 13 page Arctic Strategy and get when you look at what the russians are doing in the arctic, its actually quite president. Impressive but disturbing. So im sure you gentlemen are somewhat familiar, but general dempsey mentioned in testimony with the secretary of defense last week the russians are looking at for new arctic combat brigades. I think that would give Vladimir Putin a lot of joy. They are building new airfields 13 airfields. They are conducting Long Range Air patrols off the coast of alaska again. They have incredibly six to icebreakers coming, five more planned to add to their fleet of 40. Meanwhile, the United States is
Pure navy bill, it will devastate some part of the navy either our shipbuilding or readiness or something, because the high cost of these and because we dont recapitalize them very often. If you look back in history there is precedent for either making this a National Program because it is the most survivable leg of our deterrence or building another ship to accommodate it. The freedom in the early 60s to late 60s and the maritime maybe in 72 it was increased pretty dramatically to build these submarines. To show you in 76 to 80, the navy ship fund doubled. Our fleet still climbed by 40 because it simply wasnt enough to do both. Admiral green . Senator, first of all i think its a great start. I think we need to pursue clarity of the intent of the congress. What i mean by that is the legal ramifications for sources of the fundings we could put in there. Is it just other Navy Shipbuilding accounts . Is it just other navy appropriations, or do we mean the whole department of defense could
Senator donnellys question about your concern about count fitted parts. And i believe you said that you do have a concern about that. I just wanted to ask you one question though. You do have a concern about counterfeit parts. I i heard that correctly. Yes. I was wondering if you are aware of any technological product that can be embedded in parts to ensure it is not a counterfeit part. Senator im not aware of any specific chip or whatever that you can embed in it. What i am aware of is that our Quality Control folks at places like crane indiana that the senator was talking about are exceptionally good at spotting those counterfeits. I am aware of a particular product i would love to talk with you further in a different context. Regarding your Energy Efforts we do need a sustained longterm commitment to research and development in this area and meeting our Energy Security needs and preserving the superiority of our forces in the face of Energy Supply challenges in the 21st century are
Those are not easy things. The last thing, theres four parts to the department of defense. There are the four services, the three departments. Army, navy, air force. But theres also the department of defense. Can i take a shot at that, sir . Whoever. Im going to defend my two Service Chiefs here. Their staffs have not grown. Were not growing. The staffs are staying steady. Were doing a 20 reduction in headquarters staff. But, again its what we call the fourth estate. The department of defense agencies. So thats where the growth is coming. Its not in the department. Thank you. Let me go back to my questions. Admiral, we sort of decided on this rebalance to asia before the latest provocations from russia. If sequestration returns in october, what sort of gaps will this create towards rebalance strategy. One of the Top Priorities we have is presence. You wont see a Budget Reduction in our forward presence. Japan, singapore and guam will continue to increase. We are increasing the forces i