>> chairman inouye, ranking member cochran, members of the subcommittee, it's an month nor to be with you today representing the 358,000 citizen soldiers of the air national guard. the patriotism and sacrifice of these soldiers, their families and their employers is a source of great pride for all americans. we're now the best manned, best led, best trained, best equipped, and most experienced force in our 357-year history. and it's congressional support for the army national guard that has contributed to our transformation and enhanced our readiness. as a result, the army national guard is a ready and reliable force, fully accessible for contingencies both at home and abroad. we provide equipped, trained soldiers, giving the president and the governors maximum flexibility in times of crisis. we're an operational force and a full partner with the active army. since september 11th, 2001, the army national guard has completed over a half million soldier mobilizations in support of domestic operations in overseas missions. we currently have 29,000 army national guard soldiers mobilized.

. >> may i now call upon the vice chairman, senator cochran. >> thank you very much for convening the hearing. i'm pleased to join you and other senators in welcoming our panel of distinguished witnesses this morning. we thank you for your service to our nation helping protect the safety and security of our citizens and our interests around the world. thank you. >> may i recognize general mckinley. >> chairman inouye and ranking member cochran and members of the committee, thank you. it's an honor and privilege to be here today with my two directors bud wyatt on my right and bill engraham on my left as well as the other reserve chiefs. we have a very close affiliation with each other. it's a pleasure and honor again to testify before you. >> i wanted to take this opportunity as i always do to thank you all for your dedication to the soldiers and airmen that we represent. bud and bill will make some brief statements after i do, both of them distinguished former adjutants general. so they will have unique perspectives on the issues and concerns of our soldiers in the state active duty s

>> senator cochran, i mentioned a little bit about the time frame of the response early on. i will tell you especially in the refueling portion of odyssey dawn, it was a joint effort with the active component, the guard and the reserve. the guard and reserve actually had over 50% of the refueling capability in theater. the expeditionary wing was commanded by an air guardsman out of pennsylvania. the integration of the three components in the air force i think is a model, primarily because we're trained to the same standards. we use the same equipment. that's the way we fight. that's the way we train and fight. as we go forward in the future, i think the key for the air force to maintain the capacity and capability and continue reliance upon the reserve component guard and reserve is a couple of things. number one is the guard and reserve have to be fielded to the new equipment at the same time with the current active component in representative numbers so that we can continue to be an operational force that can be called upon on a moment's notice. i would remind everyone tha

vice chairman cochran, and members of the committee. it's an honor and privilege to speak with you here today on behalf of your united states marine corps reserve. mr. chairman, we welcome your leadership and support. the sub committee's continued unwaivering support for marine corp. reserve and the associated programs enables marines and sailors to professionally to perform in a capacity greatly presented. with me today are my two senior listeded a viruss and leaders. sergeant james e. booker and command master chief eric e.kuzan. these gentlemen e pet miz the navy marine corps team and proudly represent our services enlisted marines and sailors who collectively form the backbone of marine forces reserve. the marine corps is as strong today as ever in the 236-year history. the marines have been doing what they have done best since 1775. standing shoulder to shoulder, to fight our nation's battles. i'm pleased to report to you today that today's marine corps attends to the commitments at a total force. it's integrated into all areas sin

chairman, senator cochran, first of all, it's an honor to be here. and thank you for all the support that you've continued to give our soldiers and our families and our nation. on behalf of the 205,000 soldiers in the army reserve that are serving our nation, that are -- what i refer to as a national treasure. and i think what epitomizes what those soldiers are all about is a young soldier that i brought with me today. so instead of being very eloquent in an opening statement and everything, i just wanted to introduce him to you. seated to my left is sergeant daniel burgess and his wife, janette. sergeant burgess is from twinsburg, ohio, or up in the cleveland area, belongs to a psychological operations unit up there. sergeant burgess last year was in afghanistan, and he was in southern afghanistan attached to the marines. out on a mission as a psyops sergeant, helping work with the local afghans to get them to show the marines locations of ieds and other dangers to protect him. while doing that, he himself stemmed on an ied and he lost his leg, seve

but we have -- i'm on that subcommittee, and senator cochran's influence. and we will all -- micro-enterprise and others will be looking out for rural interests in that appropriations committee. >> thank you very much. senator roberts? >> madam chairman, the chairman has spoken. nothing much else needs to be said, but i'll say it anyway. in my opening statement, i -- i said we were over $24 billion. and i was pretty proud of that. very close to $25. we made adjustments that we think are proper under the issue of fairness. i understand that there are a lot of folks who don't think that that is the case, but we and i'm not casting any aspersions in their direction. but if we're over $24 billion and now we're 23, and we don't know exactly where but we're 23, i want to make doggone sure that we're not below the 23 which was offered to the supercommittee sometime ago. so i think under the banner of caution and remarks by the distinguished chairman that we better -- and the senator from north dakota, you know, let's look at this. and let's work on it, but let's,

>> you rightfully point out senator cochran that the air force is uniquely positioned to utilize its reserve component effectively and efficiently. for the entire period of time that i've been in the national guard, there's always been a close personal relationship between our active force and its guard and its reserve. that led to the capability that general wyatt may want to discuss more intimately involved in the tanker mission and the mission that supported the no fly zone in libya to rapidly get volunteers in our communities who are associated with the requirement out of their civilian jobs to their units in a voluntary status so we didn't need to mobilize and we got them overseas in record time and they participated in the full unified protector mission. that's been a tradition. it's been a core competency of the air force. our relationship with its guard and reserve for the last four decades. i'm very proud of that. i don't think our air force can survive without the close cooperation and collaboration of its reserve component. i've heard both secretary donnelly and general sc

vice chairman cochran and members of this committee. it's an honor and a privilege to speak with you here today on behalf of your united states marine corps reserve. mr. chairman, we welcome your leadership and your support. the subcommittee's continued unwavering support for marine corps reserve and its associated programs enables marines and sailors to professionally and competently perform in an operational capacity and is greatly appreciated. with me today and i'd ask them to stand up, my two senior enlisted advisers and leaders, sergeant major james e. booker, and command master chief eric e.couzan they pe epit mids the navy marine corps team and proupdly represent our service enlisted marines and sailors who form the backbone of marine forces reserve. the [ applause ] >> the marine corps is as strong as ever in its histories. our marines are doing what they have done best since 1775. standing shoulder to shoulder to fight our nation's battles. i'm pleased to report to you today that today's marine corps attends to its commitments

so let me just introduce our panel, and then i will turn the floor over to julia kennedy cochran forew words. we have the two authors of the foreword to this book. john maxwell hamilton who is executive vice chancellor and provost at louisiana state university. better known to all of us as lsu. he came to lsu in 1992 after more than 20 years as a journalist and public servant. most of that time he worked on foreign affairs both from the covering and the taking part and before he assumed his current position at lsu he was the founding dean of the manship school of mass communication. he was a reporter for the milwaukee journal, christian science monitor, and abc radio. longtime commentator for marketplace which is broadcast nationally by public radio international. in his government work he oversaw nuclear nonproliferation issues for the house foreign affairs committee, advised the head of the u.s. foreign aid program in asia during the carter administration and managed world bank program to educate americans about economic development, and in the course of his career he's gone to mor

they include my husband, ron cochran. my daughter emma ricardi and her husband steve. and my dear cousins, thurston balfour and daughter renee. thurston is probably the only person in the room who knew my father during world war ii. so -- he has talked to me a lot about that. so -- thank you very much. >> thanks, julia and thanks to everyone from the family for being here. why don't i -- before starting to ask questions just turn the floor over and whichever order you would like just to start things out and then i will -- i will start with some questions. >> good. i will be briefer than i thought i was going to be because you covered some of the points that i was thinking of making. this -- this story is one of great drama. and i think -- and as kennedy himself says in the book and as tom and i try to highlight in the introduction, it was a monumental news story in which a reporter had a choice and part of that choice was deciding whether to honor the pledge that had all of these 17 reporters who had gone to reims would honor about not breaking the story until they wer

and senators cochran and bozeman have been eloquent in talking about that also. one of my amendments deals with the issue of payment limits. a i understand it, under the -- the limit lies at $50,000. we've had our experts, our economists at the university of georgia look at this, and with the changes being made the way the mark is written with respect to peanuts, i doubt they'll ever be a -- a peanut farmer that's going to qualify up to the level of $50,000 even. peanuts are a high cost commodity and produce relative to other crops. capital requirement to produce the crop in terms of machinery. you have to have a special digger to dig them and harvester to harvest them, unlike what you can do with changing heads on soybeans and corn. we've experienced wide swings in crop prices because we're not a traded commodity. and we've had wide swings in crop prices which can lead to large payments during low commodity price years under the current program. and given the concentration of buyers of peanuts and the semi perish ability of peanuts where we don't have the abilit

cochran? >> senator, thank you. i've given to your staff some questions about re-assigning aircraft that now are based at keisler air force base-biloxi. and i hope you can take a look at those and address a response to the committee as soon as reasonably possible. what we're concerned about is the readiness, of course, of an operational reserve and how that may be affected by the air force's restructure decisions. do you have any comments that you can make as a way of introduction to what your thoughts are on that subject? >> senator cochran, i can do that. and let me just refer to the previous panel's remarks especially those of general wyatt as he was discussing some of the same kinds of issues as we look at downsizing some of the fleets that we have as a result of age or as a result of requirements. and that's the tricky part of this is how do we look at this across the systems in the c-130s in this example and ensure that we meet the requirements of the combatant commanders which, if we do that, will allow us to

>> i don't have an amendment, i would just like to thank you for accepting the cochran amendment which i was a co-sponsor of that reauthorizes the health care services grant program. which was number one and i think that was included in the manager's amendment and we appreciate that. that is an authorization and, again, that has the ability to provide a grant program that really does help some of t

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>> senator cochran, camp shelby has been a very viable force projection platform for most of the war fight. there has been some improvements that have been made there. the army funds those improvements out of the base budget. and as we continue down the road, i think the appropriate needs will be met by the army budget for camp shelby and several other predominantly army national guard camps and stations that are used as power projection platforms. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator alexander? >> thanks, mr. chairman. thank you for being here. i want to ask about the announcement in february about replacing the c-5as with c-17s, which was part of the comprehensive reorganization of air force resources. the house defense authorization bill includes a provision that would put that restructuring plan on hold for a year. so i understand. and i want to try to understand from you, general wyatt, if i can, what the consequences of that are. specifically, the idea as you went through these difficult budget decisions was to replace the c 5as which are expensive to maintain and

so let me just introduce our panel and then i will turn the floor over to julie kennedy cochran for aew words. the -- we have the two authors of the forward to this book. john maxwell hamilton who is executive vice chancellor and

my name is rick cochran, the president and ceo of medical international corporation. last year i was the sba small business person of the year. [ applause ] thank you. it really was a glorious moment. something for those of you who will be there today and one person obviously will be selected. and it is a great honor. it's a very humbling experience, but i think it's something then we have a responsibility, something i have felt over the last year as i had an opportunity to speak at rotary clubs and even some commencement addre addresses. things i have never done before, but to share with people the impact of small business in america, and i think that really is the key, and i appreciate the vision that administrator mills provides and what she has done for us. i want to tell one side story and then i want to introduce darlene miller. after last year, after winning the national award, going home that weekend, it was a full weekend. a lot of interviews, activities, we had an international delegation coming to our facility. we met with them sunday night. that sunday nig

women that went through the mercury testing with you at the time, you knew jerrie cobb and jackie cochran but not the others who had passed, and that you only got to meet them a few years ago. what was that like? >> it was pretty neat. being the youngest, i was outvoted on who was going to talk first, so i sat there and listen ed a lot, and i did have my camera so i got to film a lot of what was going on in the various impromptu clutches that we would get into. and every time we got together, there would be more stories that came out. they all thought of things, especially some of the girls that went together. now, see, i was by myself so i didn't have anybody to talk to. i didn't -- but they being older could have each other to talk to or they'd talk more to the doctors and the nurses more than i would be. i just considered myself a subject, and i was there to take tests and i didn't ask questions and i just was there. so i still listened to their stories because i didn't have the fascinating stories. i've told you some of my experiences. sarah ratley said she had her hair all done up th

and along with senator cochran, we eliminated the step two program, reformed the continue marketing loan program and reap deuced the cotton counter cyclical program unilaterally and in good faith. we find ourselves significantly reforming the cotton safety net with a stacks program. the program's in this bill is a significant departure from what it recovered from other covered commodities and hopefully resolve brazil once and for all. my hope, our brazilian friends will put this issue behind us. the farm bill in front of us attempts to shoe horn all into a one size fits all policy. i do not believe this is equitable to my producers. producer choice is the better choice to follow and i regret this priority is not recognized. let us remember at the end of the day the reason we are here is to represent the hard working men and women who work the land each and every day to provide the highest quality agriculture food and products in the world. i believe we have the opportunity to right write a bill kwaet equal to their ghimt providing food, feed and fiber allowing us to be the greatest natio

and so i knew jackie cochrane. she had been very generous to support phase one financially. and i've had wonderful letters from her and from gercobb but i didn't realize. i was out of the country or so buried in my work i didn't realize until after it was over with that these hearings had gone on. and then that's when we found out the parameters our jet test pilot experience to be an astronaut which let us out of the league. >> for the time being at least -- >> yes, yes. thank you for adding that because eileen did it. we have three girl test pilots, and i think we've got two female -- eileen and another gal that are testing because eileen has to have a backup, a girl backup. >> and hopefully we'll be seeing more and more. >> absolutely. >> you went on, as you said, you were traveling overseas for lengths of time. you had your career in aviation. tell us something about that, you would, an overview of what you continued to do. >> i kind of went over to -- well, i went over to russia with two goals in mind, to see the paris air show and to meet valentina because she had alrea

. >> chairman inouye and ranking member cochran and distinguished members of the committee, thank you. it's a privilege to be here today with my two directors bud wyatt as well as the other reserve chiefs. we have a very close affiliation with each other. and it's a pleasure and an honor, again, to testify before you. i wanted to take this opportunity as i always do to thank you all for your dedication to the soldiers and airmen that we represent. bud and bill will make some brief statements after i do. both of them distinguished former ajutnats. so they have the state of our soldiers in the title 32 status. we find ourselves obviously in the midst of constrained budgets and tough decisions. no doubt we must all curb spending, but should not at the expense of our security. that is why i must tell you that sequestration would hollow the force substantially and devastate our national security. it would result in further severe reductions to the national guard, reserve, and the active component. the national guard is already facing difficult budget cuts as you have alluded to, cuts that

>>darya: are you dreaming cochran think about the possibilities.have our own drivers. i want to name mind benson. we're back with more in a couple of minutes. figure is a live look outside charlotte clouds in the distance. it looks like it's going to be another gorgeous day. we will be back with more in a couple of minutes. pfft r >>darya: it is another gorgeous day. here's a look at your 7 day around the bay forecast. >>erica: according to friends of that jennifer lopez, she is looking to marry and start a family with her current boyfriend. she has recently promoted him from the back of the answer to lead choreographer. we should expect a marriage sometime within the next year. >>mark: here's a look at what is happening on wall street, the dow opening dow for the fifth straight trading day. we're off 85 points with concerns of the greek election of the weekend that greek will not implement the latest austerity measures coming next month. the dow was off 85 and we're back below 13,000 assets 4923. we will be right back as the kron4 news continues.

cochran >>darya: in fremont, police and firefighters are on the scene of a hazmat situation at an apartment building on civic center drive. will tran has been their live monitoring what is going on. have they figured out that it is safe? >>will: right now, there is still a shelter in place for a certain section of the building. the fire department came in a big fans. they are blowing the gas coming from a car for mellow old bottle that was labeled poisonous gas, they were concerned about the bottle. they brought in fanfare, the people inside will have to stay inside until they're finished. all of the other parts of the building are allowed to leave. the parking garage that is right there is where the woman's car was found. inside the car was the woman. she put a label on the window that said poisonous gas. they do not know if she died because of the hydrogen sulfide, because of those chemicals or some other form. it was an apparent suicide there will have to do an autopsy. as far as the building is concerned, if you need to go to work fast to the fire department and they will escort you dow

cochran and >>darya: in detroit that it is a base hit with what belt big doings tonight in san francisco, the bay bridge series. gary's ego and the giants against the oakland a's. in the oakland a's have a better record than the giants. >> it is definitely about 04 record. >> carey would announce his retirement. there is a sign reading him. a month of the timing was good to be the next roger clemens. it did not quite turn out that way. the miami canceled their media accessibility today. when one of your stars was yelling at the head coach like he did, to sit there and have somewhat streaming it you is pretty tough, that the great odin came out of ohio state a few years ago. he had nothing but injuries. jim harbaugh is helping people out in the community today. he was near a city hall and holding a big bag in the big check from the salvation army. $10,000, partnering with facts. of >> it is a pleasure in a privileged to be part of this. two great teams. salvation army effects. this mobile canteen will feed hundreds of people a day. >>gary: the tour of california, stage six. it said over f

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have a tropical it affects the day trip broken down the bridge to see a 42 saw from just across cochrane is blocking lines may have issued a traffic advisory know that time today to check out there been enough to get the big rig out of the road of mine passed typical slowing the conditions we went from 19 minutes to 22 minutes left in the west on friday be out of the of smud pass and i still see break at all the way toward 680 house whether golden gate bridge simmer fell my bad if you're headed for the richmond center fell bridge of course want to get to the golden gate in easy rider and san francisco to 37 to the way these delays don't get too bad until least 645 cell still an ok route to take this morning and 80 northbound very light traffic as you head into the maze southbound still looks good if connecting southbound a 87 tel brigit no delays or problems to report to their and have it for a stop and go conditions business as usual is the majority antioch. >>> thank you john here's a live look piquancy gorgeous sunrises adjusting to we can hang out the door real notice some areas of l

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this traffic report is brought to you by the cochran firm. if you or someone you know has suffered a personal injury, call 1-800-the firm. or call them online for your free consultation. >>> in about 24 hours, world famous nick wolinda will be walking high, a high-wire over baltimore's harbor. wolinda will walk 100 feet above the patapsco river. you'll start at the new ripley's auditorium, and end on a crane about 300 feet away. the entire stunt will be done without a net or any safety device. you can see nick wolinda do this, coming up. he's a 7th generation acrobat. >> his grandfather carl did a big walk here. >> okay. >> way back when. i think 1973. this will be very interesting. >> it will be interesting. >> he says he trains not to fall, he just trains to make it. >> and we'll talk to him about the stunt new at 5:00. >>> still ahead on wjz eyewitness news at 4:00. in the grass of a gumball machine. the unusual situation. a boy gets into. and how he gets out. >>> dangerous stunt. a student climbs onto a roof and attempts to jump into a po

i just want to say i've been reading professor john cochran of chicago, our friend john taylor.f people are saying social security district is too easy to get. unemployment benefits, too long to get. food stamps too easy to get. we're paying them not to work. i don't want to be hard hearted about it but a lot of people think that's the problem. >> i think that's part of the issue. whether that's the significant issue i think is really something that we're going to be debating for years. but what is apparent right now is that people are dropping out of the labor market because the amount of hiring that's going down is just not up to par. you know, the data that i always like to look at, you know this, larry, i'm kind of a wonk on this but the data i like to look at are the jolts data. that tells you how many people were hired in any given month. while hires are up a little bit from where they were say a year ago, they fell last month and we're still well below where we need to be for a healthy recovery. we've got 4.3 million hires per month, we should be at 5 million hires per mo