>> northcom is in a recent discussion with general jacobey, the commander of u.s. northern commands. he views looking at the homeland as a theater of operations. and i think his perspective will be very important in determining requirements for all homeland defense or homeland operations inner theater or -- inner theater airlift in the homeland being one of those parameters. >> mr. chairman, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> gentlemen, i thank you for your testimony this morning, and i thank you to our service to our nation. do you have further questions? >> no, mr. chairman. i have no further questions. i do want to congratulate our panel for the leadership you're providing for our armed forces. thank you very much. >> i will be submitting some questions. i ask for your response. and now the committee asks admiral dubipg, general hummer to come forward and present their testimony. >> gentlemen, i thank you for joining us this morning. your full statements will be part of the record. shall we start with general -- admiral devinc? >> chairman, vice chairman, tha

>> northcom is -- he views looking at the homelands as a viewer of operations. i think his perspective will be very important in determining requirements for all homeland defense or homeland operations. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. i thank you for your testimony this morning. i thank you for your service to our nation. any further questions? >> i have no further questions. i do want to congratulate our panel for the leadership you are providing for our armed forces. thank you very much. >> i will be submitting some questions and ask for your response. now the committee asks general stultz, debbink, hummer, and stenner to come forward for their testimony. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> gentlemen, i thank you for joining us this morning. shall we start with admiral debbink? >> thank you for it a privilege to speak with you about the capabilities and readiness of our 63,988 men and women who are serving in our navy reserve today. we have performed nearly 64,000 year-long m

also -- the commander of northcom in '07 and '08 recommended such a site. so there have been top military official in our dod that have agreed this is a sound idea. so it is a good investment. it's, the time has come for this, and considering the alternatives it would be a prudent thing to do. i would urge everyone's support, thank you, mr. chairman the i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. the chair yields to the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks, five minutes. >> well, thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, first let me say it is very difficult to add much to the substance of mr. turner's response. first a few observations. a lot of us are familiar with the civil war, john sedgewick that was trying to upbraid some of his younger soldiers there for dodging bullets. and his comments, i'm told among his last words were they couldn't hit an elephant at this distance. and he was killed about a second later. and -- it is always astonishing to me that -- that we kind of cavalierly suggest that we don't need a redundancy when it comes to missile defense ag

>> northcom is -- he views looking at the homelands as a viewer of operations. i think his perspective will be very important in determining requirements for all homeland defense or homeland operations. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. i thank you for your testimony this morning. i thank you for your service to our nation. any further questions? >> i have no further questions. i do want to congratulate our panel for the leadership you are providing for our armed forces. thank you very much. >> i will be submitting some questions and ask for your response. now the committee asks general stultz, debbink, hummer, and stenner to come forward for their testimony. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> gentlemen, i thank you for joining us this morning. shall we start with admiral debbink? >> thank you for it a privilege to speak with you about the capabilities and readiness of our 63,988 men and women who are serving in our navy reserve today. we have performed nearly 64,000 year-long m

when you are in that person of a first person the novel somehow is more quickly northcoming. >> hererson about a young bisexual who falls in love with an older woman in a public library. two trans gender women are the heroes in the sense the two characters my narrator most looks up to. they are the heroes. >> it is a novel about our lingering still with us intolerance for sexual differences. i somehow thought i was done with that subject when i finished "the world according to garp." i thought i wouldn't write about that again. i think sexual intolerance is still with us in a different way. and this may be a somewhat less radical, more realistic novel but it is still on that subject. i chose the bisexual main character because i knew he would generate more distrust from straights and gays alike. he is deliberately chosen sexual outsider or misfit. or perhaps a part of his attraction to these trans gender women of different generations is that he recognizes that they are more marginalized in society or more distrusted than he is. >> you're also saying in the next sentence billy is not

also, the commander of northcom into thousand eight recognize -- recommended such a sites of has been top military officials in the dod that have agreed this is a sound idea. it is a good investment. the time has come for this and, considering the alternative, it would be a prudent thing to do and i would urge everyone support. thank you, mr. chairman and i yield back. >> the chair now yields to the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks, for five minutes. >> thank you. let me say that it is very difficult to add much to the substance of mr. turner's response. a few observations -- a lot of us are familiar with the civil war and general john sedgwick who was trying to upgrade some of his younger soldiers for dodging bullets. his comments on told among his last words is that they could not have an elephant at this distance and he was killed about a second later. it is always astonishing to me that we cavalierly suggest we don't need age redundancy when it comes to missile defense against against the most dangerous weapons mankind has ever devised. i don't think one has to be a missile defe