secretary mccue, good to have you back in your old stomping grounds. i wanted to ask you, again, i'm staying on sequestration and its impact to our military. the members of this committee understand its implications and how adversely it is affecting our readiness and our ability to meet our challenges secretary james made reference to in our three objectives as the military. and in fact, i can talk about specific parochial examples. of its impact on my district as many can. i have army depots laying off 190 workers right now. i have part of ft. bennings, they could talk about specific examples, and that is just parochial. we hear from you regularly about impact and capabilities. our colleagues don't understand. and you uniquely have been here and you understand how difficult it is for us to convey to members focused on tax policy, medicare, or telecommunications what we're concerned about. so we really count on y'all, that's a southern term by the way, we count on you to help us help communicate that message. i shared with chairman dempsey that we have

the honorable john mccue. hout objection so ordered. again, let me welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. the honorable john mccue. chief of staff of the army secretary of the me at rogue reared have a family issue. ably standing in for him is on the show howard. general joseph dunford commandant of the marine corps to billy james sec. of the air force and a the chief of staff of the air force. thank you for being here. without objection in the only other comment i would make is to questions with this many members and witnesses going to have to be going to get a very abbreviated answer. i appreciate her witnesses as well as our members respecting the gavel. we try to give. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. good to be here with all of you. please pass on best wishes on the mr. smith and a speedy recovery. and all of you i would say how much we appreciate the opportunity to be here today and to talk very frankly about the danger that lies ahead this budget not be enacted and sequestration want to retu

my first question is for secretary mccue, secretary mavis, and secretary james. one of my priorities is knowing that should we engage in current or future military conflicts our service members go into the fight with confidence that our country will take care of then when they return home. in 2007, the commission recommended the establishment of recovery care coordinators. at both d.o.d. and the v.a. to care for wounded warriors. if, god forbid service members should become injured or ill serving our country i want to make sure they will do everything in our power to get them the care they need when they get home. so i would like to learn what are your service branchs doing to ensure from active service to the v.a. for our most wounded, injured, and ill service members. and what can we do to make sure we identify every member that qualifies for the federal recovery care. and i have one more question following this one, i appreciate your answers. >>> if i may start, it is a critically important question, and one that i try to at least elude to in my opening commen

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i guess my question secretary mccue is of the budget you're proposing doesn't have sufficient resources to ensure that the readiness is that the little level necessary and we support them through the following budget year to the degree that we ensure they can prevail and we don't unnecessarily fail due to budget constraints. >> we would need to increase it a little bit but if we get into something that will take years it will need more dollars to ensure the proper readiness to keep our show soldiers out of harm's way. >> i agree. i would note of course there's always an option to ask us to stop doing things we are doing right now. all of the services are rated against, i can imagine what that would be, but it's a very dramatic, unpalatable decision but we would not be able to meet that. >> let me ask a related question if we continue with the budget caps and sequester that extends to political choices and choices that our allies made and you mess it mentioned through russian aggression we have put additional forces and when you look at those countries what they spend as a percentage of

congressman john mccue for a whole decade. to his left is dr. robert shapiro, president and co-chairman and founder of a highly rated economic company in washington and senior fellow at the georgetown school of business at adviser to the international monetary fund director of the globalization center at the end and the clinton administration undersecretary of commerce for economic affairs where he oversaw the statistical agencies and the senses, not at all a small job. to his left we have david williams, inspector general of the united states postal service. was sworn in as the second inspector general in august of 2003. he has a lot of years looking at this institution, responsible for a large staff located all over the country and investigates the largest civilian agency. in the government. and the obama administration on vice chair of the government accountability. to develop plans for transparency for spending. we have gene del polito from the association of postal congress. the has been their last 35 years. affected advocate on behalf of t

has come before the cyber threat to our country and in particular, i'm keenly interested, secretary mccue, in regard to cyber command, what are we addressing and if other branches would like to address, this is such a key issue to the american people. >> it is, and as many are smarter than i, it is clearly a critical challenge of the future and the threat to not just the military, but to the homeland at large. like all of the services we're working through cyber command as a joint commander to ensure that we're coordinated across all of the military departments in a way that provides the most robust effective cyber team. in the army, in the active component, we're in the process of standing up 41 cyber protection teams, 24 of those are currently at the initial operation capability and by the end of 16 we expect all 41 to be up and operating. we're very mindful of the fact that particularly in the guard and reserve there is a wealth of experience. many of these individuals have employment outside their military jobs that have much to do with cyber systems. as such, the guard is setting up