. >> yes, i'm aware of the joint balad percentage utilization rates. >> were talking about different things. i'm talking about what i just said, this november 14 letter, the audit from dcaa to kbr and your november 20 response to attendance in this november 14, 2009 audit we pointed out that on average across all sites in iraq the average contract labor utilization rate was less than 11%. are you saying he did or if you have heard of that before today? >> no. i am aware of the issue. i have seen a the preliminary information on it. i have not had a chance to see the final report, which came out on friday, i understand came on friday. >> have you seen the november 14 audit, which is the audit in which this issue but 10% utilization from 2009, january january 2009 to july 2009, of less than 11%. have you seen that audit? >> yes, i assume that, yes. >> have you seen not mr. mr. laboa? >> i have seen the preliminary. >> you know, actually was going to try to help you a little bit. i thought that there was not any dispute on kbr's part as to what the labor utilization rate wherefore this.

we are currently at anaconda, or other known as the balad airbase, a long ways away from home. we just got another change of mission, and we are going to go even further north. we are going to go into the tikrit region. wasn't too excited to get this change of mission. the stretch of road between anaconda and speicher is known as "ied alley"; it's probably one of the worst stretches of road in theater. eight ball, voodoo seven. every time that we've taken it, the people in front of us and the people behind us have both been struck, and always with casualties. >> go ahead, seven. well, here we are. it's about 1:30 in the morning. we're all the way in tikrit right now. we'll be leaving here in a little bit, and it looks like we're going to be going this route alone again. eight ball, voodoo seven. there are two air force airmen driving the vehicle in front of me. bird dog, voodoo seven. >> bird dog and this kid named rev. rev, the kid that is actually driving, is very spiritual, very religious, leads us in prayer before each mission that we go on. >> here we are. it's 4:30 in the

the reality is balad does not have the same capacity as landstuhl.gain there is a triage decisionmaking process with the professionals that know exactly what they are doing making the call. and the capacity that we preserve at balad can be increased by taking some patients straight back home. again not being in my lane there, but watching the process, that would be my assumption. that they are preserving capacity at balad by taking those patients that can go straight home, straight home. but that it is not done on anything other than medical facts in the case to maximize care and protection and survivibility of every single fine american that is suffering in this regard. >> kevin baird from "stars and stripes "quongs the same topic. how many bodies have gone to iraq whether wounded casualties or any other kind of medical evacs, and what happens to the route through spain? is that a third option still going on? is this a change instead of? >> i appreciate that question. what i'll do is i'll get you those numbers so you have them and i'll make sure tha

and i'm talking specifically about the clss and i'm talking about the maintenance facility at balad. does it matter to you? mr. horn? >> mr. commissioner, it matters very much to us what our contractual requirements are and what our delivery of those requirements are. it matters to us whether we are meeting our internal standards and whether we're meeting army standards. the element i tried to point out was this data was collect dead from one data collection element, the sand system which is not a totally competent system of all the work that's done. but more particularly, this work and much of this work was be prepared type work for you are on standby, on-call with the capability to be prepared, which is difficult in evaluating -- normally comecome a few abatements units, they're in the motor pool and they're working from eight in the morning and so whenever they close. >> mr. horn, but we just -- i'm going to yield my time as i need to pursue this. so we're going to cover it because you deserve to the commissioner. i would've found a more healthy and reassuring to say we're not per

of a role and showed up and had the ballot or the officials didn't know how to handle a provisional balad or whatever and they were harassed to such a point they just left because of the time problems they have been voting. and i do check with local law enforcement to see how many matters because in every election there's always accusations people fraudulently voted and then we take a look at it and we don't find it and there's a lot of studies done and there's a lot of the voting miniscule compared to those who try to vote either can't vote or their votes don't get counted properly. i am for senator sessions planned. i want all of the laws and forced. don't get me wrong. but i would hope we would try to be in power in people to vote for eligible to vote and spending our resources to do that and not try to spend a lot of effort with a problem there really does not exist or if it exists in such a minor way that we said be very surgical astor how we go about it. i think there are many who share my view on that and i didn't want senator sections comments to go without being responded to. >>

showed up and had to follow the provisional dollars or they didn't have to handle the provisional baladre harassed to such a point they just left because the time problems they have been voting and i do check with our local law enforcement to see how many -- after every election there's always accusations people fraudulently voted and then we take a look at it and we don't find it and there have been a lot of studies done and a number of people who are fraudulently voting are miniscule compared to those who are eligible to vote or try to vote who either can't vote for their votes don't get counted properly. now i am for senator sessions point. i want the laws and forced to read don't get me wrong. but i would hope we would try to be in power and people to vote who are eligible to vote and spending our resources to do that and not try to spend a lot of effort with a problem that really does not exist or excesses in such a minor way of that we should be very surgical how we go about and i just think there are many who share my view on that and i didn't want senator sessions comments to go