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mr. belkind: i'd like to acknowledge press club members responsible for organizing today's event, betsy fisher-martin, john donnelly and laurie russo and staff members laura coker and lindsay underwood. with just over 1 million active duty and reservist soldiers, the army is the oldest and largest of america's armed services. its fiscal 2018 budget request is about $166 billion, including proposed war spending. in the context of a roughly $639 billion total pentagon budget request. the army faces a host of challenges today and president trump added a new challenge yesterday with his tweets barring transgender people serving in the military. in case you are not aware, we have some breaking news update on that story, which is the news that a little while ago, as we were preparing for this lunch marine general joseph dunford, the chairman of the chief of staffs and who spoke at the national press club a few weeks ago, sent a note, wrote a message to the chiefs of the services and senior enlisted leaders that the military will continue to, "treat all of our personnel with respect." and the two key paragraphs i will read out, quote, i know there are questions about yesterday's announceme