mr. marino. mr. sherman from california is recognized. >> mr. yamamoto, in this enterprise, are we introducing american on forces into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated? >> the reason why they are there is -- mainly for advice and support and assistance. however, to defend themselves, they need to be fully equipped. >> the u.s. marines in the london embassy would defend themselves. in vietnam, we use the term "training" to mean american troops going out on combat missions accompanied by indigenous forces. are they in safe areas training, or are they out training to engaging the enemy? >> congressman, some of the training will take place and save areas and bases far removed from the area of conflict. but in the commission approved by the president, forces will have the possibility based on what the commanders judge to the most effective and based on what the partners feel would be most affected, to deploy to the field to abies and assist at the front line level. we do not believe that it

mr. marino. thank you. i'm so glad. mr. sharma from california is recognized. >> thank you. mr. yamamoto, in this enterprise are introducing american armed forces into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated? >> i mean, the reason why they are there is, there are many for advice and support and assistance. however, if they need to defend themselves they need to be fully equipped. >> well, the u.s. marines and the london embassy would defend themselves. in vietnam we use the term training to mean american troops going out on combat missions when accompanied by indigenous forces. are they in safe areas training, or are they out -- training their engagement, through engaging the in the? >> congressman, some of the training will take place in safe areas of basis far removed from the area of conflict, but under the nation's approved by the president our forces will have the possibility based upon what the commanders judged to be most effective and based on what the partnership would be most effective to deploy to the field, to adv

mr. marino. >> it is working out. >> i am so glad. mr. sherman is recognized. >> ambassador yamamato. we introducing our armed forces into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated? it and the reason why they are there is that mainly ford buys and support and assistance. however, if they need to defend themselves, they need to be fully equipped. didn't u.s. marines in the london embassy would defend themselves. in vietnam we use the term training to mean american troops going to go on combat missions when accompanied by indigenous forces. are they in safe areas training, or are they hout training through engaging the enemy? >> congressman, some of the training will take place in safe areas far removed from the area of conflict. but in the commission approved by the president forces will have the possibility based on what is judge most effective to deploy to the field to revise an assistant -- tour advise and assist at the front line level. we do not think it is highly likely that our forces will be engaged. >> will we be shooting at

mr. marino for using those questions. >> thank you, madam chair. in addition to the questions submitted by the committee, i have a website for my direct, and i asked my constituents to send questions to me prior to my hearings. the questions i'll ask are repetitive, but if you could answer them in a different light, please, bear in mind, i have less than four and a half minutes. whoever feels they can answer the question to satisfy my constituents, please jump up. first question from sharon. who will be paying for this troop deployment, and what is the anticipated cost, and how many troops will be involved for how long? >> okay. the united states will be paying for the operation, and as i said sheepishly, we don't have precise costs, but i can assure it's likely to be in the tens of millions of dollars, not the hundreds or the 500 billions of dollars. it's an investment worth making in terms of just advising and assisting forces, we can eliminate an evil force from the earth. >> from titus, how will forces in central africa address widespread devel

mr. marino, for five minutes who was hit by the storms.thank you. >> director, it's good to see you geep. yes, we were affected by the storm in pennsylvania, but i thank you and your staff. we had communications in the hurricanes and irene, and i see pat sitting behind you, and he's a trooper. he was on the phone with me a dozen time when we needed water or food and strategic changes made, and i want to thank him for the service he provided. i have your cell phone number, and i'm still going to take advantage of it. you brought up a good point on being notified, and just briefly going through how important it is for states to be in tough with fema so you can get on the ground running, and there's many indications you didn't have that in cay treen new -- katrina. there's indications that just the requests were not asked or asked for in time. how important is it? >> i think it's absolutely critical of all the lessons i learned over history is when dealing with these events, and i'll break it into two pieces -- those we deal with with recover

mr. marino, who was effected by the storm's progre -- storms. >> thank you.e have communications during hurricane irene and i see pat sitting behind you. he is quite the trooper. he was on the phone with me one dozen times when we need water, food, strategic changes made. i want to thank him for the services he provides a. i still read your cell phone number, and i will take advantage. you brought up a good point on been notified. just briefly, go into how important it is for states to be in touch with fema, so you can get on the ground running? there are many indications that you did not have that in katrina. there are also indications that the requests were not asked, or not ask for it in time. how important is it? >> i think it is set to be critical. all lessons i have learned over history is that when we are dealing with these events -- i will break this into two pieces, those that are recoveries, and those that are an active response such as hurricane irene. it is hard to be effective if you are always identified yourself as a local, state, fema, or fede

mr. marino, for five minutes who was, obviously, affected by the storms, his congressional district. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director, it's good to see you again. yes, we were affected by the storms in pennsylvania, but i want to commend you and your staff. i know we've had communications during our hurricanes and irene, and i see pat sitting behind you, and he's quite the trooper. he was on the phone with me a dozen times when we needed water, we needed food, and we needed strategic changes made. and i want to thank him for the service that he provided. i know he got a promotion, but, pat, i still have your cell phone number, and i'm going to take advantage of it. you brought up a good point on being notified, and just briefly go into how important it is for states to be in touch with fema so you can get on the ground running. and that, there are many indications that you didn't have that in katrina. you know, there are also indications that just the request, requests weren't asked, or they with respect asked for in time. how important is it? >> i think it's absolutely critical. all the