Marine corps deputy commandant Lieutenant General gary thomas was on capitol hill last week to testify on military readiness and modernization efforts. He was also asked about the impact of budget cuts and emerging challenges. This is just over an hour. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. The subcommittee meets today to continue informing our members and the public about the ongoing readiness crisis that all of our military service s find themselves in. Readiness includes many things, such as end Strength Training and modernization. Today well focus on how sequestration and years of continuing resolutions in our budgetary process have impacted the marine corpss 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, Lieutenant General gary l. Thomas, the deputy commandant for programs and resources United States marine corps. General th
Marine corps deputy commandant Lieutenant General gary thomas was on capitol hill last week to testify on military readiness and modernization efforts. He was also asked about the impact of budget cuts and emerging challenges. This is just over an hour. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. The subcommittee meets today to continue informing our members and the public about the ongoing readiness crisis that all of our military service s find themselves in. Readiness includes many things, such as end Strength Training and modernization. Today well focus on how sequestration and years of continuing resolutions in our budgetary process have impacted the marine corpss 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, Lieutenant General gary l. Thomas, the deputy commandant for programs and resources United States marine corps. General th
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Avoid clashing in syria after russia carried out air strikes. And chinese authorities are hunting for a suspect in connection with a series of deadly explosions. The japanese government has launched a new Agency Responsible for the developments and accusation of defense equipment for all selfdefense forces. Nhk world explains. Reporter the new agency kicks off under the Defense Ministry on thursday. [ applause ] Staff Members gathered from the procurement and research branchs of each selfdefense port. The launch of the new organization came after Prime Minister shinzo abe relaxed the countrys policy on defense exports in april of last year. One of the agens main tasks is to advance pans defense tenology exports afterhe new guidelines open the way for companies to tap into international and joint projects. A number of new projects have already started. The government decided to sell time missile software for u. S. Navy vessels. An amphibian rescue craft is set to be exported to india, a
Simple technologies, fraking, hydraulic drilling and having geopolitical consequences are hard to forsee. Absolutely. And im impressed by the things that dont happen. If we had this confers in 1950, we all would have said energy will be cheap, it will be free by this point in history because we thought e thought Nuclear Energy would be great. It didnt quite turn out that way. Im sbreged as much by the dogs that never bark as the interesting ones that do. Greg, thank you so much. Let me just close this by quoting your boss, general claker, the right man, the right time, you can see by the intellectual quality by which he handles these questions. Best of luck and well help you wfr e where ever we can. Oh, thanks very much. And thank you for doing this. Right. Tonight, on cspan2, live coverage of the Louisiana Senate debate between threeterm democratic incouple bant Mary Landriue and bill cassidy. That will determine the winner of the Louisiana Senate race, a race which has been undeclare