he is a great friend of afa.s a region and state president for afa, and if we get enough time, he is agreed to take questions from you so please join me in welcoming general craig mckinley. >> thanks mike, appreciated. [applause] just oscar of for a second to say thanks for being here. i know many of you are here with an educational experience and learning as much as you can and professionally developing yourself and i think that is great. as mike said ivan the opportunity of the chapter in the state and the region and serving as an afa director at one time. had some great experiences with john shot gy saw earlier. worked with don peterson and now with mike, some great leaders and on the elected side of course, a key, james smith, holly crawford and bob so for those of you who are sampling the fair here, you are around some very very great leaders who have done an awful lot for both industry and the military and again off script i mentioned earlier that i am privileged to be the fourth chief of the national guard

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i would like you now to please give a warm afa welcome to the secretary of defense, robert gates.applause] >> is an honor to have the opportunity to speak to the air force association. for more than six decades, this organization has been a tenacious advocate for air men and u.s. air supremacy. without which as have arnold once said, there can be no national security. general arnold was of course a formidable advocate for air power long before there was a u.s. air force. his dealings with president roosevelt also showed once more that a little sizzle military tension is nothing new in his stream of republican arnold recall the time when he said some things in congressional testimony that were known to pleasing to fdr. at a white house meeting, sooner after the president looked pointedly at him and observe and military officers who were unable to play bar with his administration might become available for duty in guam. but later that year, general arnold was invited to another white house gathering. a small dinner. and he arrived to discover that roosevelt awaited him with a tray o

my thanks again to afa for the opportunity to speak with you today. and for everything you do on behalf of our country and our air force. thank you. [applause] >> thank you for agreeing to take a few questions. your recent announcement needless to say i have quite a few -- but your announcement concerning the kcx takes care of 50% of these questions. [laughter] >> the first one concerns our nuclear forces. and you mentioned the stand-up of global strike command. and as we continue our efforts to reinvigorate the nuclear enterprise, what could you share with us on the status of the nuclear posture review and what impact that might have in terms of major changes for our air force? >> well, the nuclear posture review is well underway. i would say we're beginning to see what's some of the likely conclusions are. i would say it is -- it is clear, at least to me, that it is important for us to continue to make investments, and i think larger investments in modernizing our nuclear infrastructure, the labs and so then, the expertise in these places, to have t