and i am proud to appear today with my good friend and next door neighbor jim mattis. admittedly, jim is rarely there, but when he's there, he's a great neighbor. with your position, i'll submit my written statements for the record and provide some brief remarks. i would like to give you an overview of emerging security challenges. secretary panetta recently outlined how he viewed the future joint force. he called for a low-cost, lean, technologically advanced agile, responsive, innovative, and efficient and effective forces able to address a variety of challenges and adversaries. as i read those characteristics, i am struck at how accurately they describe your special operations forces and what we bring to our nation's arsenal. special operations forces have had a tremendous impact on our nation's security and never more so than during the last ten years of war. since 9/11, our forces have doubled in size. now it's 66,000. our budget has tripled to meet emerging demands. however, even with that growth, our $10.4 billion budget in fiscal year '13 still come comprises on

i am proud to appear today with my good friend and next-door neighbor jim mattis. he is rarely there but when he is he is a great neighbor. with your permission i will submit my written statement for the record. i would like to provide an overview of addressing our nation's ongoing emergency security challenges. secretary panetta outlined how he viewed the future. he called for a low-cost technologically advanced responsive and innovative force able to address a variety of challenges. as i read those characteristics i am struck out how accurately they describe your special operations forces and what we bring to our nation's arsenal. special operations have had a tremendous impact on our nation's security and never more so than during the last week in years. since 9/11 our forces have doubled in size at 60,000. our budget has tripled and the number of deployed as quadrupled to meet the emerging demands but even with that growth our $10.4 billion budget in fiscal year 13 still comprises only 1.7% of the total department of defense budget. it remains relevant in high

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