Now a pentagon briefing on air force operation. Air force secretary Deborah Lee James and chief of staff general mark welsh spoke with reporters for more than an hour. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the state of the air force press briefing. And Brigadier General mobilization assistant to the director of Public Affairs and im very privileged to introduce the honorable Deborah Lee James secretary of the air force and general mark welsh is chief of staff of the air force. Let me give you the groundrules wrote that. What we are going to do today is secretary james and general welsh will have opening remarks and then well open it up for questions and answers. Standard rules of engagement apply today so please state your name and affiliation when you are called on and then we will do one question and one followup and depending on how much time we have with us if we can get to other questions. If there are any questions we dont get answered today you are more than welcome to call the a
Obviously its congresss constitutional prior if to rearrange priorities but in so doing please to not carve money out of our readiness account. Readiness is key, and ready to get those goals up. Please lift sequestration. Fees choices were troublesome, all on your hands. It will get worse and more difficult. This is a message that i wanted to repeat today. We need to get full Spectrum Readiness up. Now that i talk about todays readiness, let me shift to the future i also told, i think we will have greater reliance because obviously you know our numbers have been coming down. Right to leverage their reserve more. We have to maintain a technological edge. We have to be remaining ready with topnotch people. We need to become more agile. So what does all that means . It means a lot of things. We need to keep working diligently of our top three programs. The new fighter, the new tanker, the new bomber. In the general would give you some updates on the street. These and other technical inves
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