Good morning, this hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets to continue informing our members and the public about the ongoing readiness crisis that all of our military services find themselves in. Readiness includes many things such as and strength, chair training and modernization. Today we will focus on he house sequestration in the years of continuing resolutions in our budgetary process have impacted the marine corpss ability to modernize the current force to ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned for the army this week. Id like to welcome our witness, gary l thomas, the deputy commandant for resources at the marine corps. General thomas, we thank you for your service and look forward to receiving your important testimony today. Todays hearing will allow for a much deeper review of the modernization and Readiness Challenges identified by the assistant commandant to the marine corps during last months hearing on the sta
Tudentcam. Org. Now marine corps deputy commandant Lieutenant General gary thomas on the Corps Readiness to respond to overseas conflicts and its modernization efforts. He spoke to a House Armed Services subcommittee today for about an hour. Good morning. This hear willing come to order. The subcommittee meets today it continue informing our members and the public about the ongoing readiness crisis that all of our military services find themselves in. Readiness includes many things. Such as end strength, training, and modernization. Mr. Turner today we will focus on how sequestration and years of continuing resolutions in our budgetary process have impacted the marine corps ability to modernize the current force to be ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned with the army next week. Id like to welcome our witness, the deputy commandant for programs and resources, United States marine corps. General toments, we thank you for your ser
SubCommittee Hearing. [inaudible] good morning, this midi this meeting comes to order. Good morning, this meeting will come to order. Readiness includes many thing such as in Strength Training and modernization. Today, we will focus on sequestration. How budgetary process has affected the current force to be ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned with the army next week. I would like to record i would like to welcome our witness, the deputy commandant for programs and resources in them are in score in the mari ne corps. Allows forring will a much deeper review of the modernization and Readiness Challenges identified by the assistant, dont of the marine corps during last months full Committee Hearing on the state of the military. Based on his testimony, we know the marine corps is not only out of balance, but also lacks the necessary resources needed to rebalance itself. This is a dangerous trend that we must reverse for the nation
SubCommittee Hearing. [inaudible] good morning, this midi this meeting comes to order. Good morning, this meeting will come to order. Readiness includes many thing such as in Strength Training and modernization. Today, we will focus on sequestration. How budgetary process has affected the current force to be ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned with the army next week. I would like to record i would like to welcome our witness, the deputy commandant for programs and resources in them are in score in the mari ne corps. Allows forring will a much deeper review of the modernization and Readiness Challenges identified by the assistant, dont of the marine corps during last months full Committee Hearing on the state of the military. Based on his testimony, we know the marine corps is not only out of balance, but also lacks the necessary resources needed to rebalance itself. This is a dangerous trend that we must reverse for the nation
SubCommittee Hearing. [inaudible] good morning, this midi this meeting comes to order. Good morning, this meeting will come to order. Readiness includes many thing such as in Strength Training and modernization. Today, we will focus on sequestration. How budgetary process has affected the current force to be ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned with the army next week. I would like to record i would like to welcome our witness, the deputy commandant for programs and resources in them are in score in the mari ne corps. Allows forring will a much deeper review of the modernization and Readiness Challenges identified by the assistant, dont of the marine corps during last months full Committee Hearing on the state of the military. Based on his testimony, we know the marine corps is not only out of balance, but also lacks the necessary resources needed to rebalance itself. This is a dangerous trend that we must reverse for the nation