Eastern on cspan2s book tv. Next, the army, navy, air force, and marine corps chiefs testify before the House Armed Services committee about their budgets. They also discuss the impact of repeated continuing resolutions instead of longterm appropriations for the military branches. Committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both congress and the obama administration
Up next, the chiefs of the army, air force, navy and marine corps testify on their budgets and the impact of repeated continuing resolutions in place of more longterm appropriations for the military branches. Held by the House Armed Services committee, this is about two hours, forty five minutes. [ banging gavel ] the committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both
Pilots in the air force. He spoke about military readiness and modernization earlier this month at the h heritage foundation. Its about 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, and it is a pleasure to see all of these smiling, handsome faces out here at heritage. And i am going to take a moment to introduce a man who actually needs no introduction. Ive known general goldfein for 25 years. We went to Fighter Weapon School together. Actually, it was 25 years ago this month. We were in the throes of, im sure, the second phase of training. And having the time of our lives. General goldfein has flown combat aircraft. He went in from Shaw Air Force base into desert storm and has some Great Stories to tell on that, if you have a moment after this event is done. He went on to several assignments. He commanded a squadron in combat, as a squadron commander, led through the highs and lows of that. He commanded a component, which is an air force level in combat. And now he leads the United State
Didnt have to wear my gloves with the sun and then the clouds and the snow started to fall. I talked to one, david that owns summit rentals, rents out condos, luxury homes, anything to people out of state. Says theres something called snow equity thats very important to business. People start running from the 70 from di and live back here, you can see the snow starting to fall, the areas, the buildings that face north. Thats where the snow is starting to stick on the sidewalks and the snow is melting to the pavement as of now, but boy, im excited to see this. Its about time we were due for a good storm and hopefully some of this moisture gets down to the metro area now. We got some. Some flakes inside the studio and outside the studio right now. Take a look at the temperatures. Theyre in the 30s. And wait for it. Wait for it. Kind of hard to tell, but there are a few snow showers and its going to pick up in the next few hour. The radar is very active and this moves in fast this morning
Yes, sir, i would. Im thrilled to introduce my family beginning with our youngest daughter diana, a Third Generation School Teacher following in the footsteps of her grandma and mother. He will a published author kind, caring, compassionate, and tough. If asked most of us can remember our favorite teachers but almost all of us can name our first grade teacher. Her kids are blessed to be in her class and i cannot be prouder. Our oldest daughter danielle is a captain in the air force and could not attend. She is also a Third Generation following in the footsteps of her grandpa bill, a refired pilot who fought in vietnam. And both of her you thinkles, cousins and dad. She is a great offenser and combat veteran having recently returned from afghanistan. She helped keep me grounded and in tune with our younger force. I could not be a prouder father. All this good comes from their mother dawn whom i met in high school when our parents were stationed in germany. 33 years, 21 moves, three wars