ms. penrod to come to the podium.s a few opening remarks to give you a sense of where we have been and what the process is at this point and the issues before us. general? >> thank you. good afternoon. what i'd like to do here in a couple of minutes is talk about what we were asked to do as a repeal implementation team, give you what we did, what happens for the next 60 days through repeal, what we've reviewed, and what we have yet to review. as everybody knows, the president signed the repeal act on 22 december. soon after that in january, the repeal implementation team was activated in the month of january. we were tasked to conduct implementation with maximum efficiency and minimum disruption to the force. to do this, the repeal implementation team operationallized the comprehensive review working groups support plan for implementation. this essentially was a blueprint that we carried out over the last six months. the department of defense worked steadfastly over the last six months to prepare the necessary policie

ms. penrod. few opening remarks to give you a sense of where we have been and what the process is at this point and the issues before us. general? >> thank you. good afternoon. what i would like to do here in a couple minutes is talk about what have we were asked to do as a repeal implementation team, i give you what we did, happens for the next 60 days through repeal, what we have reviewed, and what we have yet to review. the president signed the act on december 22. in january, to repeal implementation team was activated in the month of january. we were tasked to conduct implementation with maximum efficiency and minimum disruption to the force. to do this, the repeal implementation team operational lies the comprehensive review working group's support plan for implementation. this was a blueprint that we carried out over the last six months. the department of defense worked steadfastly over the last six months to prepare the necessary policies and regulations to implement repeal. and to train 2