On cspan2. Okay. We went right to okay. Well, i think thats the tone for what we want to talk about today. So welcome, everyone, with that to our first readiness subcommittee hearing of 2024. Hopefully, he will be able to join us. We have a new member joining the subcommittee this year, representative gooden of the 5th district of texas. I look forward to working with him and hopefully when our other subcommittee members free up from their obligations, we can get everybody over here, but i look forward to working with all of you as we go forward through this next year. Unfortunately as you can see from the photos todays topics is not a new issue, infrastructure across the department and the services continues to age and the deteriorating conditions at military facilities, obviously, have brought us as you well know. The neglect, the disrepair, the underfunding of our military facilities doesnt just harm our operational readiness capability, it does have significant impacts on everythin
On cspan2. Okay. We went right to okay. Well, i think thats the tone for what we want to talk about today. So welcome, everyone, with that to our first readiness subcommittee hearing of 2024. Hopefully, he will be able to join us. We have a new member joining the subcommittee this year, representative gooden of the 5th district of texas. I look forward to working with him and hopefully when our other subcommittee members free up from their obligations, we can get everybody over here, but i look forward to working with all of you as we go forward through this next year. Unfortunately as you can see from the photos todays topics is not a new issue, infrastructure across the department and the services continues to age and the deteriorating conditions at military facilities, obviously, have brought us as you well know. The neglect, the disrepair, the underfunding of our military facilities doesnt just harm our operational readiness capability, it does have significant impacts on everythin
Their policies for those who report sexual misconduct. The Defense Advisory Committee is tasked with bringing its recommendations to the secretary of defense and Armed Services committee of congress. This is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] before we continue with our next panel, id like miss garvin to have the mic for a moment. During the break i had an opportunity to speak a little more to miss stolberg and asked her about her service dog and she authorized me to say how much the service dog has aided in her recovery and how important the dog is. And she pays for the dog out of pocket and did not have access to that as part of her recovery in any formal way so i thought it was important for us to know na piece of information in light of how much its helped in her recovery. Thank you. Okay. Were now going to begin with the briefing of the department of defense and military services expedited transfer policies. We have quite the distinguished panel. The only person is ms.
Megan Jacob is a mother of three who just got her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
She’s also an associate professor in clinical microbiology and director of Diagnostic Laboratories at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM). Now, under her leadership, the college is home to COVID-19 testing labs for the NC State community.
With the laboratories capable of completing 8,000 tests per day and current expectations for campus demand at about 11,000 tests per week much of the university community’s health is in the hands of her and her lab team.
It has truly brought out some of the best in people.