The committee is part of a major transition of American Military leadership. If confirmed as army chief of staff you will serve along side the joint chief of staffs new Service Chiefs for the navy and marine core. You will lead part of the volunteer soldiers and time and time over a decade of time in iraq. The army indured 70 of the casual casual casualties. As the nation confronts the most array of Global Crisis since the world war ii the next chief of staff of army is responsible for making sure the total army and active guard and reserve remains the most decisive land troops in the world. We have drastic reductions in defense funding and the army is going to be forceded to carry out missions with fewer dollars, soldiers and equipment. It has been reduced from 570,000 active duty personal to 490,000 troops this year and last week the army announced they would cut an additional 40000 troops reducing to 450,000. There is talks the army could decline to 420,000 troops and what is worse
Center. We provide a wide variety of enablers that support special operation. We will keep the linkage that will not break. Thank you sir. I appreciate your commitment to making sure our military men and women are able to perform the missions they are given. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you general for your service to our country and your familys support of the service. You and i have had a good conversation on things and i will ask you what i ask most of the people being pointed. What do you consider the greatest threat . As a soldier and military officer, i would have to say it is russia. Russia is the only country on earth that retains the Nuclear Capability to destroy the United States. It has capability. Intent . Dont know. But the activity of russia since 2008 has been aggressive. They attacked and invaded georgia, seized the crimea and attacked into the ukraine. That is worrisome. I would also add china and north korea and isis along with iran including the recent agreemen
Commands you support as well. I have been concerned reductions across the services are going to impact the conventional source enablers that our specialop guys work with. How will you work with them on the reductions having on their capabilities . We are closely tied with the special operation committee. 80 of u. S. Special operations come from the army. So we are tightly closed. We are joined at the hip. One of the big Lessons Learned from the last 1015 years is conflict has been the synergistic affect. We will continue to work with them very, very closely. We have them integrated in the major exercise at the training center. We provide a wide variety of enablers that support special operation. We will keep the linkage that will not break. Thank you sir. I appreciate your commitment to making sure our military men and women are able to perform the missions they are given. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you general for your service to our country and your familys support of the ser
7167 on saturday for its first win over the nations no. 1 team. The panthers used a 298 stretch over 12 minutes of the second half to turn a 5034 deficit into a 6358 lead, and held on from paul jesperson. Justin jackson had 25 points for the tar heels 31 , who play in his home state. Paige didnt play because of a broken bone in his right hand. The tar heels could have used him, as paiges replacement, joel berry, had just five points on 2of7 panthers 21 , also beat the tar heels in of Northern Iowa Mens Basketball Team makes College Going into saturdays game, north Carolinas Team was ranked number 1 in college basketball. Wes washpun scored 21 points and saturday for its first win over half to turn a 5034 deficit from Matt Bohannon and 14 points from paul jesperson. Justin marcus paige could play in his the tar heels could have used 2422, after Kennedy Meeks scored the first eight points looking to improve to a school the first eight points for unc. Down in iowa city, the hawkeyes looki
And such a date and to go down to core level and in some cases division level. Its pretty specific reports. I only copied one or two of them for the paper. There are about eight or nine. You may have looked at them, actually. Actually. One thing i just discovered last month, in a conference in australia, and it was published in publication in Australia National university, the australians found out through diplomatic intercepts that there were sources and can bharara which we know were a couple of soviet spies handing over top level intelligence reports australian senior armed forces, both on intelligence estimates and plans for operations in the philippines by the u. S. Those that agent communicated them apparently to moscow. Moscow then sent it to the Council General because the japanese were maintaining the charade that manchuria was an independent country and had diplomatic relations. The subjects have diplomatic they hand over to the japanese the intelligence reports that they gen