and that's why things like the ngrea that you give us is so critical to me. that allows me flexibility to buy equipment that i need now that is not programmed yet. that allows me to go and buy simulations equipment that i can use to train our soldiers to maintain that edge and keep them ready. so the ngrea, the oco to base money we're transferring to, around $200 million, $250 million to provide extra training days for these soldiers in the fourth and fifth year of the rotation cycle is critical. i can record to you today, sir, the army is an operational force and highly successful and successful because of soldiers like sergeant burgess and others. >> we've been advised that your equipment shortfalls. how does that impact on your mission? >> what i can tell you, sir, is, if you look at the figures, it says equipment on land for the army reserves. we're better than we've ever been. 86%. however, we're 66% modernized. the equipment we have as was discussed earlier with the national guard in a lot of cases is old equipment that is substitute items for the moder

that's why the ngrea funding that you give us is so critical because if the army says we're not going to buy any more modernized trucks, for instance, because we're going to probably take some of the active trucks and give them to you in 2016, i can go ahead and buy some today and put them in my units, and then when the other ones come, fill out the rest of the units. so i'm not satisfied that our modernization strategy will meet my needs for the immediate future, no, sir. >> i'd like to ask a question of all of you. the strategic plans for the next five years call for drastic reduction in end strength which gives you an opportunity to get active duty people transition ing to the reserves. do you have any plans to bring this about? >> chairman inouye, we certainly do in the navy, and our primary office we put up a couple of years ago, the career transition office in millington that is handling all of these transit n transitio transitions, we're proud of the work that they've done to reduce the time it takes to make the transition what used to literally be four to six months down to so