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mr. coffman. mr. runyon. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i know some of the other members may wonder why i'm sitting down here. i'm a member of hask but also chairman of the veterans committee, disabilities and memorials. oversight of our scemeteries an arlington is one of my primary issues i deal with. colonel koch, thank you for your service and thank you for sharing your story with us. you know, it was literally my second month in office and i had a similar constituent complaint much like you had. i've since been over to arlington and it was fixed rapidly. i think many people in this complete comforted in knowing i think we're moving in the right direction. and i look rward to their testimony, but in the situation i would like to smair the stwenlt i had. i had a gentleman reach out to my office the first of march that his nephew came down to visit his grandfather's grave site athere was a different headstone on the grave site. it was shocking to hem. i reached out to lington, they fixed the problem, identified the problem, and it was obv
mr. coffman. mr. runyon. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i know some of the other members may wonder why i'm sitting down here. i'm a member of hask but also chairman of the veterans committee, disabilities and memorials. oversight of our scemeteries an arlington is one of my primary issues i deal with. colonel koch, thank you for your service and thank you for sharing your story with us. you know, it was literally my second month in office and i had a similar constituent complaint much like...
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mr. coffman. mr. runyon. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i know some of the other members may wonder why i'm sitting down here. i'm a member of hask but also chairman of the veterans committee, disabilities and memorials. oversight of our scemeteries an arlington is one of my primary issues i deal with. colonel koch, thank you for your service and thank you for sharing your story with us. you know, it was literally my second month in office and i had a similar constituent complaint much like you had. i've since been over to arlington and it was fixed rapidly. i think many people in this complete comforted in knowing i think we're moving in the right direction. and i look forward to their testimony, but in the situation i would like to smair the stwenlt i had. i had a gentleman reach out to my office the first of march that his nephew came down to visit his grandfather's grave site athere was a different headstone on the grave site. it was shocking to hem. i reached out to arlington, they fixed the problem, identified the problem, and it was
mr. coffman. mr. runyon. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i know some of the other members may wonder why i'm sitting down here. i'm a member of hask but also chairman of the veterans committee, disabilities and memorials. oversight of our scemeteries an arlington is one of my primary issues i deal with. colonel koch, thank you for your service and thank you for sharing your story with us. you know, it was literally my second month in office and i had a similar constituent complaint much like...
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mr. coffman. >> thank you, mr. chairman.irst of all, general mcnabb, thanks for the job you're doing is commanding general for u.s. transportation command. the question about afghanistan and that is he mentioned that you want to get the c-17 mourn its primary mission is to define it, to do the airborne drops or logistical support. but i understand there have been some problems with accuracy, giving that inside the traps them? could you respond to that? >> sera come i think are probably talking about the precision airdrop system where we dropped 10 or 15,000 feet of the gps receiver and a square sheet that comes in. the biggest issue with that was the terrain and the wins. i'm not a sales guy to be able to keep up with those kinds of things. we work with industry to make sure we continue to drive in the accuracy they need on the ground. because of the commissions, primarily we been able to do visual drops. low altitudes, disposable shoes. that is been the primary amount we have done a normal container delivery system is the p
mr. coffman. >> thank you, mr. chairman.irst of all, general mcnabb, thanks for the job you're doing is commanding general for u.s. transportation command. the question about afghanistan and that is he mentioned that you want to get the c-17 mourn its primary mission is to define it, to do the airborne drops or logistical support. but i understand there have been some problems with accuracy, giving that inside the traps them? could you respond to that? >> sera come i think are...