To the 94 bits in these graphs were rough total of 617 billion. My question is kind of a can to a congressman fleming was acting. Does it make any difference to the department of defense if the money comes to the department of defense via the base versus overseas Contingency Operations . How does that affect your ability to do it need to be done . I think i addressed that earlier when i said for the army receiving relief there are end strength provisions above 450 provides 4. 2 billion in one year relief. Im trying to explain. Ive only got a minute and 10 seconds left to so let me move onto something more specific. Look tauro combat ships that are being built in the state of alabama, secretary mabus cannot be built out of oco funds . I dont believe that under the current fund we can do new construction. Its not as good as base money in that instance. Is that a fair statement . Can you do Missile Defense out of oco money general odierno do you now . As far as i know we are not able to d
Deployments and we ended up producing hours and getting that next set of deployers ready to go we ended up delaying the deployment of carrier. When you talk about the Global Response force our ability to train our folks and their ability to have that next set ready is very much tied to the budgetary topline. Right now we have two carriers ready to go. We always have two to go. We are building up to a larger Surge Capacity but clearly with sequestration our ability to maintain that projection force generation is significantly challenged. Sir we have a designated Global Response force out of the 82nd Airborne Division that is ready to go and prepare to go. What i would say though is because of the fact that we have less forward station capability out of the army now the importance of Global Response force has increased significantly. Unfortunately i think it goes beyond damages the ability for the second airborne to force entry operations anywhere in the world. I go back to general dunfo
Moving money and putting off unnecessary programs and delaying modernization but those cuts and delays we will do with next year with the return now of sequestration and added to the cuts already would be a back breaker for the United States army and i would argue the military at large. Were doing everything we can. Just basic commitments to save normal security. Yes we have a presence in afghanistan but those are not big operations. That is dated day commitments. We are mortgage eight our readiness just to meet these commitments is something bigger happens we will not be able to respond to it awaited people are used to was responding. Divemaster to get you to help us by giving specific examples. That is a very good example. White the platforms you have to give up wort strength you have to reduce our installations to have to close a week to help them understand. It is difficult we have 30 or 45 seconds before they are thinking about Something Different and that is a challenge. We do ha
An Army Aviation Restructuring Initiative both of those combine to be 6 billion. If we dont get those reforms. Were going to have to find 6 billion, and find another half a billion for brac, thats who it costs every year for excess infrastructure. If we dont get those things, were going to have to find that money somewhere. Great thank you. For navy and marine corps, it is slowing down the growth of pay and compensation. Its we simply have to do that. We are at the point where were choosing between keeping people or getting them the tools that they need to do their job. And i think that the proposals that have been put forward are reasonable, theyre sound. And from talking to sailors and marines around the world they are the thing that concerns them the most is certainty. And the concern about sequester and whether they will have the tools to do the job that they joined the navy and marine corps to do. Congressman, in addition you heard me with the compensation reforms, i agree with br
Fairly soon. The investigation is going on at the airport. Teams are there both putting the debris away and doing repairs at the airport. And also passengers are going through as the airport remains open and you have this strange situation where you have an ongoing investigation, a crime scene and an active airport all on top of each other operating at once. Any indication that turkish officials had any kind of warning or knew something was coming . Reporter there are reports in the turkish media that they had a specific warning that isis was planning an attack. According to the reports, that warning came about 20 days ago. That would fit with the warning we reported on two weeks ago that isis had deployed more than 35 militants to this country with the intention of carrying out attacks during ramadan. Thats really a fundamental piece of all of this. It was passed to me by a u. S. Counterterrorism official. The director talked about how isis was trying to prestage fighters to carry out