secretary pfannenstiel, i hope you can help me better understand the fiery range on guam. i expressed the location for the firing range on guam. the marine requirements seems to have shifted since the beginning of the eis process in 2006. and as such, why are these individual qualifications needed to be met on guam? has a cost benefit analysis -- and i think we talked about this earlier, been conducted to determine why the island may or may not be feasible? >> we have looked at the island and, in fact, we'll be doing some group training there but the individual qualifying needs to be on-site close to where the marines will be. we've looked at the ability to move the marines as it would be required -- to move them to tinian, often to support them there, to move them back. you end up not just with a lot of additional expense, you reduce the time that they have to train. you reduce the through-put of training for them. given all of that, we've concluded that the training needs to be on the island of guam and we have sought for -- since we have been doing the process to find a

pfannenstiel i now recognize the gentleman from texas for five minutes. >> thank you. i appreciate if the witnesses would indulge if i kind of bounce around with several different questions. they've undergone the pat-down and do not find this intrusive. was this the pat-down you took when you opted out or have you triggered an anomaly and receive a secondary more intrusive pat-down? >> i've gotten the opt out search and i have set off the anomalies with change in my pockets but the search consisted of having to show what set off the anomaly. so i'm confident there certain kinds of anomalies the would produce a more detailed search but i haven't been through it. >> i have. you don't want to be through it. >> this one is to dr. brenner. have you done any studies regarding to the exposure of the tsa agents, on the typical for a logical applications x-ray technicians are required to wear detection devices to determine their a can of the exposure to the radiation. are we doing anything to protect our agents from radiation that may spell out of these machines? >> the film ba

pfannenstiel i now recognize the gentleman from texas for five minutes. >> thank you. i appreciate if the witnesses would indulge if i kind of bounce around with several different questions. they've undergone the pat-down and do not find this intrusive. was this the pat-down you took when you opted out or have you triggered an anomaly and receive a secondary more intrusive pat-down? >> i've gotten the opt out search and i have set off the anomalies with change in my pockets but the search consisted of having to show what set off the anomaly. so i'm confident there certain kinds of anomalies the would produce a more detailed search but i haven't been through it. >> i have. you don't want to be through it. >> this one is to dr. brenner. have you done any studies regarding to the exposure of the tsa agents, on the typical for a logical applications x-ray technicians are required to wear detection devices to determine their a can of the exposure to the radiation. are we doing anything to protect our agents from radiation that may spell out of these machines? >> the film ba

pfannenstiel i now recognize the gentleman from texas for five minutes. >> thank you. i appreciate if the witnesses would indulge if i kind of bounce around with several different questions. they've undergone the pat-down and do not find this intrusive. was this the pat-down you took when you opted out or have you triggered an anomaly and receive a secondary more intrusive pat-down? >> i've gotten the opt out search and i have set off the anomalies with change in my pockets but the search consisted of having to show what set off the anomaly. so i'm confident there certain kinds of anomalies the would produce a more detailed search but i haven't been through it. >> i have. you don't want to be through it. >> this one is to dr. brenner. have you done any studies regarding to the exposure of the tsa agents, on the typical for a logical applications x-ray technicians are required to wear detection devices to determine their a can of the exposure to the radiation. are we doing anything to protect our agents from radiation that may spell out of these machines? >> the film ba