Have been with an average age of 25th. Averages average. That means quite a few of the fleet are substantially older. The shocking statistic, more than half of our our forces are not sufficiently ready today for our highend play. Interfere with you. You did your defenses and the like. More than half of our forces are not sufficiently. I think we also realize that demand we do that and alltime high all around the certainly its dangerous complex and constantly changing the that i can ever remember in the 34 years that i have been. Have to join my colleagues and say that a budgetary trajectory that resulted in sequestration is not going to allow us to sustain the space. Let me now do my plays became. I believe sequestration is going to place american lives at greater risk at home and abroad. Sequestration remains the law of the land in the United States air force simultaneously be able to defeat in adversary and one for cant deny a 2nd adversary the objective a seat as well is the from th
And signer and nuclear and signs and technology and readiness and people. In other words, i think everything is threatened mr. Chairman, under sequestration. And most of all i fear that american lives would be at risk. So i ask you again, please continue your leadership to get sequestration lifted permanently. Please keep on pushing. Thank you very much, and we all look forward to your questions. Thank you. Im going to ask the staff to put me on the clock because i have really one question directed to each of the Service Chiefs. At our retreat general dempsey said, and he said we could quote him the budget request was the lower ragged edge of what it takes to defend the country. If you were talking to my con state opportunities or our colleagues who dont deal in this area every day and had one minute to describe what the consequences to the country would be for not approving the amount that the president the administration has asked for for department of defense or your service how wou
For over 30 years long before there was any such thing as the internet as we know it today and i submit the reason we have these things is we have been unwritten unregulated by the federal Government Information Services that have allowed the innovators to blossom. So i agree. Chairman wheeler this committee has requested a number of documents that have been denied under the claim of deliberative process privilege. For the deliberative process privilege to apply an agency must show a communication was, a communication was, a direct part of the deliberative process and that it makes expression on legal or policy matters, and matters, and on proceedings like the open internet proceedings ex parte filings are required to disclose committee cases between the fcc and executive branch for its staff, if those discussions are, i quote, over substantial significance and clearly intended to affect the ultimate decision. Now, i am trying to figure out how these two different concepts apply here.
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BINGHAMTON (WBNG) Military deaths are recorded every quarter through the Department of Defense.
Through a partnership with the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System and the Suicide Prevent Program Offices of the Military Services, the Department can report the numbers.
The Department of Defense recorded 76 suicide deaths in the Active Component, 13 in the Reserve and 26 in the National Guard during the first quarter of 2021. In the same quarter of 2020, there were 90 suicide deaths in the Active Component, 20 in the Reserve and 26 in the National Guard. Within the Active Component for the quarter in 2021, however, there s a rise of eight deaths when it comes to the Army Active Component.