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[inaudible] this breathing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with opening comments with both gentlemen and the will open the 44 questions. Good morning, good afternoon. It is good to see you all. Im not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise it is there for reference in case i have to go to a. We walked your presentation of the budget here between the general and myself we will try to answer questions as best we can. Today president johnson to congress his proposed budget requests. What will do is outline the request for the Defense Department. And so go to the first light please and so the messages on the first slide is the intent is that fy 18 budget request be the next step in the armed forces. Secretary mattis from virtually the first day he was in the building he talked in terms of a threestep process on how to get there in terms of getting ready, getting balanced and getting bigger and more lethal. Her request in fiscal year 2017 for
[inaudible] this breathing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with opening comments with both gentlemen and the will open the 44 questions. Good morning, good afternoon. It is good to see you all. Im not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise it is there for reference in case i have to go to a. We walked your presentation of the budget here between the general and myself we will try to answer questions as best we can. Today president johnson to congress his proposed budget requests. What will do is outline the request for the Defense Department. And so go to the first light please and so the messages on the first slide is the intent is that fy 18 budget request be the next step in the armed forces. Secretary mattis from virtually the first day he was in the building he talked in terms of a threestep process on how to get there in terms of getting ready, getting balanced and getting bigger and more lethal. Her request in fiscal year 2017 for