Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties
Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties
Services committee is chaired by texas congressman mack thornberry. Committee will come to order. Last week the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world. Or more accurately the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. Th
Tactical unit. On december 14, 2010, not far from here, he was pursuing a crew of Illegal Immigrants who were robbing and assaulting illegals. When brian and his team engaged them, shots were fired and our brother brian was mortly wounded. He died at 11 08 p. M. His last words as reported to me, im hit. I cannot feel my legs. I think im paralyzed. That will haunt me until the day i take my last breath. He was supposed to come home to michigan. If that celebrated holidays with him, we buried him not to far from the family home. Two weapons were recovered from the scene or traced back to the failed gun operation. The Obama Administration has traced this. He left his family, friends, community in our country. The best way to honor him is to honor his fellow order patrol officer. Obama state policies failed policies are leaving portugal agent poorly equipped and unable to do their job. My brother paid the ultimate sacrifice for those failures. They need the personnel and equipment required
Podium. Maybe there was a medical emergency. Maybe his mom called with bad news from home. I dont know. But if it doesnt have nation like that states demandfrom a rollcall vote, it is granted. It is not debatable. Vote, each reads their votes for the rules. That is a rollcall vote. That is all they are asking for here. Apparently it is too much. Well, they are going to have to live with this. Dont understand why they would do the. That. Hoped they would not do that. [indiscernible] they are calling for a rollcall vote. Now, if that is too much for the people on the stage to handle then ive got questions. How many votes do you think you get it if you got a rollcall vote . I have no idea, that is why we are asking for a rollcall vote. I really dont know. No idea. How many did you submit . There were 11 states. 11 states according to their delegates, signed a position saying, we want a rollcall vote on the rolls. Now, this is the first thing you do at a convention. Voteon a delegate rollc