mr. fitzgerald. mr. loehrl, i said lo-rell it sounded kind of nice but your name is loehrl but thank you. and you're on. >> chairman thibault, chairman shays, members of the commission with your approval i'll present a short oral statement and ask that my written statement be entered into the record. it is my privilege to be here representing the united states army material command as well as the service members and civilians supported by the logistics civil augmentation program, logcap. i thank you for the interest in logcap and the attention you are paying to the services we provide. it is important to stress that logcap is a critical worldwide army augmentation program. the program has grown rapidly over the years from 2001 to the present from a peacetime value of approximately $55 million to an annual value of nearly $6 billion. its mission is to provide critical logistics and life support services to our fighting forces freeing them to focus on our core mission combat. in mid-2004 the arm began deve