Against the terrorist threat. So the idea is we sit together almost every day in the National Security council in the situation room x youll have a terrorist or terrorist group, and well each go around the table with all of the different authorities and expertise we bring to bear and say how do we disrupt them, stop them overseas before they can do an attack. For us though, when we realize looking at some of the success we had against the terrorist threat, that we needed to get better to applying that model when it came to cybersecurity nets. So over the last several years, weve reorganized in the division to do things like train prosecutors in every u. S. Attorneys office across the country to, on the one hand, handle that which is on the classified side sensitive sources, methods, what threats are and on the other hand, learn about bits and bites and the specific laws that apply to computer hacking like the Electronic Communications privacy act. And then send those trained prosecutor
Advised the president. You know, i think americans who are doing business in every aspect of the economy want to know more about the world. I actually think its a good conversation for people to be having. You dont think they expect anything in return . Absolutely not. You know, first of all, i was a senator from new york. I took them on when i was senator. I took on the carried interest loophole. I took on what was happening in the mortgage markets. I was talking about that in 2006. They know exactly where i stand. And ill tell you, chuck, its really interesting to me that now karl rove has taken money from the financial interest to run an ad against me to influence democrats not to support me. Why . Ask yourself why. He knows number one i know what must be done and number two i know how to get it done to make sure that wall street writ large, not just the banks but the investment banks, hedge funds and everybody else, no longer can wreck our economy the way they did in 2008. Two more
The army reserve responded within 24 hours and had forces moving to the east coast. I provided dewatering units, Aviation Assets to help the National Guard and it worked just fine. Break. Go to d. O. D. , fema, eplows. 100 provided by the army reserve embedded in your fema regions. 50 it shall over 50 of the d. O. D. Are provided by the army reserve which is utilized routinely to defend the homeland in terms of complex catastrophes to support the Guard Brothers and sisters. That all happened in the National Defense act of 2012. Paul, before we go to you, judd, can you talk that from a National Guard angle . Yes, sir. In addition to what general talley mentioned about authorities in place a unique aspect of the air National Guard is our ability to operate under state active duty underneath the funding and control of the governors. The response capability exists. We saw it time and again across the 54. The Additional Authority that general talley mentioned, i might add in terms of contro
Leader development. You mentioned that is one of the most important components. [laughter] leader development. S. Leader development for you. [laughter] and why was that . And we also looking at the program, professional military education that occurs . Currently having just gone through this and other active officers attend resident courses. Could this also provide cost savings by integrating the dl forces to the active component to get cost savings for them and integrate the training that we achieve . Did you understand the question . [laughter] i did not get the actual. Sounded like the yankees fan. Of hate. Next question. Im just kidding. Using captains career fuller says an example theyre is a audio component and a resident component. Your question was, could we maximize opportunity for integration and collaboration, perhaps if we had guardsmen, perhaps more attending residence and also some active component experience a learning. And all of those courses throughout our pnc. Yap.
Hard over the last two years. So there will be significant challenges of not going forward. The a10 sole usefulness is being of close support, discounting capabilities in Forward Air Control roles. While there are without question other assets that can perform the cas mission, none can do so with the same maneuverability of the a10. Could you give us your sense from an Army Perspective as whether or not the air forces decision to stand down the entire a10 fleet is in the best interest of the National Security . So as we talk to our sell jo soldiers, they will tell you that they support and have been getting great support from the a10 aircraft. A lot of it has to do with the visual deterrence that it provides lowflying visible both to us and the enemy itself and the exacts that it has. So the a10 is a great host air support aircraft. The Close Air Support aircraft. However, as weve done in afghanistan, there is an amount of missions being followed by other platforms such as the f15s and