general dunford has gone to the u.s.my ranger school, marine care amphibious warfare school and u.s. army college and a distinguished career and we appreciate the expertise he brings to this panel. last but certainly not least is general breedlove. we appreciate you being with us. general breedlove is vice chief of staff of the u.s. air force at georgia tech graduate and we enjoyed the graduate university of virginia playing you the other week. it may be the one bright spot we will have this year but thanks for your help and cooperation in that. he is also a graduate of arizona state university where he had his masters of saw science degree at national war college and without further ado we want to get to your opening statements. we are pleased to have the ranking members join us and we also have with us feet chairman of the full committee. we talked about before you got here dispensing with opening statements and putting them in the record because they will call votes at 10:15. >> i would like to welcome our witnesses a