review of live fire practice, and recommend ways to reduce the cost and incidents of unexploded ordnance. -- or thin nance -- ordinance. saving money, resource, having safer american lives -- lands, and more successful operations abroad. just a few volleys of a standard rocket system with a 5% failure rate generates thousands of unexploded ordnance. training lands here at home, it complicates our missions approved. consider the flight of civilian populations in iraq and afghanistan. the millions who will rebuild their lives amidst of munitions wreckage left over the last six years of combat. this is a problem at home, in the united states, this is a problem abroad. it is time for us to face up to it. i appreciate the committee's leadership in helping zero in on it. i hope we can do a better job because it will save money while it saves lives at home and abroad. i thank you. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: i yield at this time to the gentlelady from florida, one minute, ms. brown-waite. the chair: the g

. -- ordnance. when we are testing here at egeland air force base long-range weapons systems, some that we release from airplanes, some that are shot from ships, we need hundreds of miles of range. that's why the operative policy of the department of defense is that you can't have oil rigs out here to interfere with national security preparation. but apparently that's not why 13 members of the senate energy committee understood this argument. now, there's another argument. and, by the way, i might point out that in that realignment of the bases that they're bringing into egeland air force base right here all the pilot training for the new f-35. that's the joint strike fighter that is still being developed but that will be coming out within the next few years. that's the joint strike fighter for the navy, the marines, and the air force. and that joint strike fighter will be sold to some of our allies. and where is the pilot training?