Good afternoon and welcome to theNational Press club, leading organization for journalists. I am the 113th president at the press club. We have an Excellent Program ahead. Listen, watch,o or follow along on twitter. Our cspan and public radio viewers and listeners, please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily from the working press. By introducing our headed table. Hold yourt you applause until the head table announced. Been john oshea, colonel, retired. Kevin when seen. Captain, u. S. Navy, retired. And a member of the Headliners Team. Securityational johnter for the donnelly, Senior Writer at cq roll call and president of the military reporters and editors association. Right, theiate president of d. C. Media strategies. Former National Press Club President and cochair of the Headliners Team. Speaker, ryanur mccarthy, secretary of the u. S. Army in a minute. At defense reporter news and chair of the b
I am the 113th president at the press club. Residence atst in the university of maryland, global campus. We have an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen, watch, or follow along on twitter. Live. The npc for our cspan and public radio viewers and listeners, please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask that you hold your applause until the head table guests have been announced. Beginning to my far left. John oshea, colonel, retired. And member of American Legion post 20 based here at the National Press club. Wensing. Captain, u. S. Navy, retired. And a member of the Headliners Team. Lolita, National Security reporter. John donnelly, Senior Writer at cq roll call and president of the military reporters and editors association. To my immediate right, the president of d. C. Media strategies. Former National Press Club Presi
Process, making sure that when we are making changes to our military members lives, that it is this body and his bodys worst responsibility that we are there to make sure we are providing the oversight to see if the changes that we made are doing what we intended them to do. And this deals with the commissary. Many in this committee might know, but our colleagues might not know, that is the Grocery Store and the military. Is nothing predictable in the military and it is very stressful. Grocery shopping should not be stressful. Is not a business. It is a benefit to the tune of about 300 per family member. Haveof those same families people working at the commissary. And the money from the commissary goes back into morale , welfare, recreation, and things to make military life improve. What we are doing, to be clear on this is, we are changing the way the commissarys work. Suggestion and i ask you to think of this from a. Oldiers perspective the mandate was to modernize the military, the