general correlli, general amos, general schwarz, as i indicated in my opening statement, each of you- and in your case, general correlli, i'm referring to the comments of general casey -- expressed reservations about the central conclusion of the dod department of defense group that the risk to all military effectiveness was low. as you proceed with the education training phase of the implementation plan, has your attitude changed and what is your current professional military judgment about the risk to military effectiveness? >> mr. chairman, thank you for that question. as you indicated general casey did indicate that he felt the risks walgreen's moderate. i believe it remains moderate today, as far as we've gotten in our training. i will say i had a session with commanders last friday. they have indicated no issues so far in tier one and tier two training as they get ready to kick off our tier three train g training. i think general casey would remain with moderate risk only because we're not far enough in our training to change that. >> thank you. general amos. >> chairman, you r

i welcome general chiarelli, general amos, general schwartz, admiral roughead. thankjo you for being here, and thank you for your incredible service to our country. don't ask, don't tell was put into place almost 18 years ago. since that time, i guess even an the time it was hotly debated, discussed, studied and argued about, and in the 18 years since that has continued. we have had countless studies and countless opinions expressed through those years, and i'll disagree a little bit with the chairman. this committee has had many hearings on precisely this subject on the subcommittee level, and we've also debated it on the full committee level over the course of the last several years. i don't think it's fair to say that we haven't thought about this or that the military services haven't thought about this, of course, culminating in the very, very large study of service members to get their feedback and their opinions. i believe we have analyzed this at enormous length over an e enormous period of time, and at some point you have to make a an decision. i'm pleas

general amos? >> you remember the results of that came back from the marine corps that had concerns about unit cohesion and combat the effectiveness. i reported that in my december testimony. i have had an opportunity to visit afghanistan and travel around the marine corps. this morning, i was with our commandment -- our commander on the ground. i was looking specifically for issues that might arise come out of the tier two and tier three training. we have not seen it. there are questions about building from remains -- from marines. there has not been the anxiety over it from the forces from the field. i asked specifically this morning. i said, what are you seeing in the young marines out there? they said they are focused on the enemy. maybe they will have questions when they return to the united states of america. right now, there are focused. he does not think it is an issue. >> general schwartz? >> i am not prepared to fall off of my assessment of moderate risk. we have trained 100,000 airmen to

u naval chief of operations, general james amos,, but marine corps congenital norton schwartz, chief of staff, u.s. air force. general courelli, we thank you. for standing in for generalon casey today and ask you to please extend our heartfeltk you condolences from the members ofr the committee and the staff of r the armed services committee to general casey and his family onm the passing of his grandson, thm jackson run in casey. committee to general casey and his family on the passing of his grandson jackson ryan casey. admiral roughead, you're moving closer to departure from your current position and may not have the opportunity -- should would probably not call it an opportunity to testify before this committee again. i want to express collective thanks of all the members of the committee for your 38 years of service and best wishes for the future. >> thank you. i join you in passing along my i ndolences toal se to our country on mask "don't ask, don't tell" was put into place almost 18 years ago since that time i guess even at that come there was hotly debated discussed studies d

. >> woodruff: for an update on the dire conditions, we go to: valerie amos, the united nations under secretary general and emergency relief coordinator just back from a trip to libya. she is a former cabinet minister in the british government and leader of the house of lords. valerie amos, thank you very much for being with us. you are just back from this trip. what can you add to what ordinary libyans are living with right now? >> well, of course it's a terrible situation in some parts of the country. not just misurata but elsewhere where the violence is very intense, fighting is going on, and we're not able to get aid to the people who need it. i called for a cessation of hostilities, a temporary cessation, so that those people who are feeling really insecure and unsafe could leave so we could get aid in so we could help people who need medical help and we could do an assessment to find out exactly what is happening. that was turned down when i spoke to the prime minister, but i did manage to get agreement to travel to misurata by road. we have not been able to do that because there are checkpoints

. >> general amos, do you have any thoughts there, sir? >> congressman, our training is intima intimate, it's personal, both at the platoon level, the company level, ta bahhal i don't know, squadron level. we watch it very carefully. it's very structured. we know what our readiness is, a, to give them time and preparation for deploying to combat -- most of our units are either in combat, have just come home and are resetting to go, so it's a personal matter. readiness and combat effectiveness is personal to our marine leadership. and in that regard, we've not seen any drop. but, again, we are in the implementation stage right now. but my expectations are the truth of the matter is i don't think we're going to see a drop in it. >> at this time, if you had to point to any one area, i'll throw it out to the panel, just the most challenging area that you may have as a result of this policy. is there anything that stands out in your mind? >> congressman, i would say we're training a very large force. and quite frankly, the responses that we're

last week i spoke with marine corps commandant general amos on the amazing work of these north carolina marines, and he told me it took only 90 minutes from start to finish to rescue the f-15 pilot. these warriors are heroes as are the 12,000 active-duty troops in north carolina and approximately 400,000 american troops who are deployed overseas, including 90,000 troops in afghanistan and 45,000 troops in iraq. these heroes and their families do not deserve to have partisan bickering jeopardize their financial stability. more than a third of the people in my state are either in the military, a veteran, or have an immediate family member who is in the military or a veteran. so if the government shuts down and we delay paychecks to our military personnel, it's not just our courageous service men and women whose livelihoods are affected, but those of their spouses and their children. and i know that nobody in this body wants to see that happen, whether you represent a state with a large military population or not, we are all incredibly grateful for the sacrifices our military personnel and

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very pleased to have with us this afternoon the under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency the coordinator valerie amos reza recently visited libya at the start of this week. she's here to talk to you about that. she will have to be out of here by a quarter past one. >> ten past one. ms. amos, the floor is yours. >> thank you. i will make a short statement because i'm sure you have a number of questions to ask me. i just returned from a two day mission to libya during which i was able to visit tripoli and speed. my purpose was to secure agreements to establish a humanitarian presence in tripoli and push for the cessation of prosperity so that both by conflict could leave and so that we could facilitate delivery of much-needed humanitarian aid. on also wanted to have an opportunity to look at coordination efforts on the ground in benghazi. in the benghazi at the representative for the humanitarian agencies, member states and relief committee by the transitional national council. while the tripoli i met with libya's government officials, ambassadors of member states and heads of the humanitarian communit