the army and marine corps -- i'm also pleased that the army and marine corps has funded facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization at the 90% level, which is the dod's stated goal. unfortunately, the air force and navy funded this same fsrm at 82 and 80% respectively. i'd like to hear from the air force and the navy what level of risk they are taking on as a result of these lower funding levels, and what steps they plan to take to avoid large bills down the road. finally, we have learned the department of defense will face at least a $1.3 billion bill as a result of the rise in fuel prices. this price increase has been exacerbated by the continued closure of the pakistan border, forcing supply convoys for our force in afghanistan to use the northern distribution network at an increased expense of about 38 million per month. given all of these challenges we face, we must strive to protect our readiness accounts, but we can also do a better job in managing funds like operation and maintenance. we can improve the execution rates and unobligated balances in these accounts in addition to our operational readiness models. as the services continue to identify efficiencies in overhead, support, and other le

the air force bomber programs tankers and air lifters. there are other important provisions in this mark that are meant to maintain the greatest navy and long range air force the world has ever seen. i want to thank my friend, mr. forps for his work on the readiness subcommittee. we interfaced with the process of trying to get the additional submarine and additional destroyer and work through how those numbers are going to work from the readiness point of view. we have taken important steps towards insuring that we have the navy and air force we need to project power and keep peace through strength. as always i would like to thank mr. mcintire for working with me on this work and thank the staff for their fine work. i yield back. >> the chair now recognizes the ranking member of the subcommittee. the gentleman from north carolina, mr. mcintire for any comments he would like to make. >> the mark before the members today continues the strong bipartisan tradition of support for our men and women in uniform. i would like to thank the members of the subcommittee and subcommittee staff for their efforts in enabling us to present this mark for inc

. >> reporter: they came by the thousands from the army, air force and navy. ute to their commander-in-chief. the queen's role might be ceremonial, but her support is real. >> we are very proud of the selfless service and sacrifices made by men and women and their families in recent years. >> reporter: the queen's length of service is now longer than the lives of those who serve her. szott new recruits, she's an inspiration. >> proud. stood there, chest out, head held high. loved it. >> reporter: the enthusiasm is widely shared. the royals are now more popular than anyone can remember. public approval at 80%. but respect matters more to the queen and among the military, it has never waivered. the queen and her family's relationship with the armed forces goes beyond pomp and pageantry. it's also personal. in world war ii, a young princess elizabeth joined the women's auxillary as a driver and mechanic. her husband was a naval officer, and she would go on to worry like only a mother can when prince andrew flew helicopters in the faulk lands war. now it's the turn

the raptors returned to flight in september, 11 pilots and five maintainers have complain -- complained of hypooxy restrictions. rebecca grant is the president of iz ris independent research which advises the air force, navygencies and contractors, including f-22 maker lockheed martin. rebecca, welcome back. >> thank you, vago. nice to be here. >> why did secretary panetta do what he did, how unusual was his involvement in the program and when do we expect this all to be lifted? >> secretary panetta obviously wasn't satisfied with what he was saying. i think he has a big heart, he was concerned about the human element, what's really going on with the pilots who fly the f- 22, why are they standing up and saying that they're worried about being in this aircraft. and it's very unusual. i can't remember, vago, maybe you can, a time when we've seen either two pilots who were on active flying status say they don't want to fly a plane. and i can't remember seeing a sitting secretary of defense make such an operational decision about limiting a plane's flights. >> how is emitting what he has decided to do, is it a significant limitation on the aircraft or a modest one? >> he's taken a medium course, so he's rest

the persian gulf war. over 40,000 women were deployed as part of operations desert shield and desert storm from 1990 to '91. the veterans here discuss their army, navy and air force service in the persian gulf and reflect on the attention they received from the press and disrespect they experienced due to their gender. the library of congress veteran's history project hosted this event. it's about an hour. >> this is great. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the library of congress. my name is bob patrick. i'm the director of the veterans history project, a special collection of the library's american folk life center. the veteran's history project is a congressionally mandated effort to collect and preserve the wartime memories of america's veterans. we're in our 12th year of doing just that. it's a very important effort. it's thanks to the efforts of volunteer organizations, institutions and even individuals, we have been able to amass an archive of some 80,000 collections of veterans, veterans from world war i all the way up to veterans in the most recent conflicts in iraq and afghanistan. this is a permanently preserved archive at the library of

the air force is the bulk of it, and the navy as well. 're providing what is called close air support. they're flying around above soldiers on the ground, and should the soldiers need assistance from above, these guys have, in their plans, cameras and a very high-powered that they can see and get awareness of what is going on on the ground. they would be the ones to release them. host: the house armed services committee recently approved of a $642 billion defense bill that will be going to the floor. what is the missile and munitions debate in that bill? guest: there is not much debate over these types of systems. host: everybody like them? guest: yes, one. and two, they have proven themselves as time has gone on. there really is not any heavy debate on any of this. host: so we will not see them change in that $12.2 billion request from the pentagon? guest: probably not, go. good morning. you are on with marcus weisgerber. caller: the former military, iningwe were in basic tradin 31 years ago, there were certain munitions we could not use

the army and marine corps -- no i'm also pleased the army and marine corps has funded facilities as same as modernization at the 90% level which is the dod's stated goal. unfortunately the air force and navy funded this same ssr m. and 82 and 80% respectively. i would like to hear from the air force and the navy what level of risk they are taking on as a result of these lower funding levels and what steps they plan to take to avoid large bills down the road. finally we have -- that they at least a $1.3 billion bill as a result of the rising fuel prices. this price increase has been exacerbated by a continued closure of the pakistan border forcing envoys for our force in afghanistan to use the northern distribution network and added increased in expensive $38 million per month. given all of these challenges we face we must strive to protect our readiness account and we can also do a better job in managing funds like operation maintenance. we can improve the execution rates and on obligated balances in these accounts. in addition to her operational readiness model. as the services continue to identify deficiencies in overhead, support and other less mission essential areas, i challenge the

if you look, for example, the difference between how the air force has approached this problem and how the navy, they're markedly different. the airs basically said, look, private sector, you come up with these fuels that are competentive and we're going to buy a lot from you and reward what you've done. the navy gone out and said we're going to spend millions of dollars because we want to create artificial markets for people that we like, an industries that we like. but here was the difficulty with that. when you looked at the air force and what they're doing, they're saying that the way you handle spikes is you do like the private sector did. southwest airlines went out and got long-term contracts. four years or so. so that dealt with the spikes and their cost wouldn't fluctuate up and down. when you look at alternative information sources there's no guarantee that they're not going to have the same spikes, because it's all supply and demand. the other thing that we were really shocked at hearing we had when we asked virtually every energy expert they had brought over, army, navy, air force a

helicopters bearing the flag of the russian federation as well as the bonnet of the armed forces the army the navy and the air force as well as the defense ministry. fourteen hundred around fourteen hundred veterans were in attendance to see this great some of those veterans had been present at the first parade taking part in the first parade to commemorate the victory over nazi germany back in one thousand nine hundred forty five some very emotional scenes from some of those veterans looking on remembering what was sacrificed in order to achieve that victory over. the third reich all those years ago now the celebrations continue here in moscow and across russia for the rest of the day not all culminates in a spectacular fireworks display at around ten pm all at ten pm local time that's something that if you can tune into r.t. to see it is well worth watching always a fantastic event both a celebration and a commemoration of the sacrifice that was made in order to achieve victory over nazi germany. right that was peter all over there from red square comedy us spectacular parade to commemorate the sixty sounds

appropriation of $3.2 billion for the armed forces and an increase in the total authorized strength of the army from 875,000 to 1 million men. he requested similar increases in the navy and air force active duty strength. he also called for the activation of some reservists and the extension of tours of duty for soldiers, sailors and airmen scheduled to leave the service in the near future. finally, the president postponed programs to retire or mothball older ships and aircraft and delay the deactivation of a number of b-47 bomber and arial refueling wings. shortly thereafter, secretary of defense mcnamara announced that 50% of the strategic air commands bomber wings would be placed on 15-minute ground alert and three of the army's divisions in the united states would be relieved of training duties and prepare for emergency deployment to europe. meanwhile, the situation in berlin continued to deteriorate. soviet and east german soldiers increased the harassment of u.s. vehicles and trains trying to enter the city and periodically renewed attempts to conduct unauthorized inspections of allied vehicles as they crossed checkpoints into and out of berlin. soviets tried to instit

or seem was axed and not only the air force academy and all over the you know the united states air force but it was just as bad in the marine corps navy and army in this video game questions are killing muslims a few years back it was a wildly popular game among the american troops poker players choice to recruit others in order to fight the enemy of the leaders to show you the opposition. mikey weinstein says their organization helped stop the game from being delivered to u.s. troops serving the broad gotta stop how it's getting into the care packages and being being shipped over all of our troops i guess along with toothbrushes and you know packets of peanuts there's a perception among many muslims that the u.s. is on a crusade in the islamic world but some argue it's more based on the idea of transforming the region rather than imposing the religion on them via regional sin of this entire enterprise which was the carter doctrine really positive. through the use of american hard power we were going to be able to shape and determine the destiny of a very large part of the world when are we going to acknowledge that we are not going t

helicopters bearing the flag of the russian federation as well as the ban as of the defense ministry and the army the navy and the air force around fourteen hundred veterans were in attendance to to witness this year's parade many of them had actually taken part in the first parade to commemorate the victory in world war two back in one nine hundred forty five some of those coming straight back from the front to march across red square that day now the celebrations here in russia and in moscow continue throughout the day here in the capital they come to a conclusion with a funtastic spectacular fireworks display at ten pm local time just making sure that this day is a celebration as well as a commemoration of the sacrifice place for the freedoms we have today pete all of our reporting there it wasn't just saudi troops that sacrificed everything to stand up against the nazi threat more than sixty thousand british sailors braved subzero temperatures in the arctic to keep supply lines to russia open during the war but their apic halfords have remained largely undermined until now as a band of reports. the worst journey in the

the five armed forces of the united states of america. the united states army, the united states marine corps, the united states navy, the united states air force, andates coast guard. and remembrance of those young lives and loves captured, missing, or killed, the cry of their spirits continues to be heard, harboring their rages, deprived of their precious freedom, locked up in wire, bamboo, and concrete cages. oppressed by the enemy in the darkness of doom, never to surrender and a passion to live, spiritually driven by the red, white, and blue. the pow, mia, missing warriors table has many symbols. the table is round, symbolizing our ever-lasting concern for our missing comrades. the table cloth is white, symbolizing the purity of their motives in answering their country's call to arms so that children could remain free and be given a chance. the single red rose displayed in a vase reminds us of the life of each of the missing and their loved ones and friends who continue the faith, awaiting answers and continue the faith, awaiting their return home. the vase is tied with a red ribbon, symbol of our continued determination to account for our miss

helicopters bearing the flag of the russian federation as well as the banners of the defense ministry and the army the navy and the air force around fourteen hundred veterans were in attendance to to witness this year's parade many of them had actually taken part in the thursday parade to commemorate the victory in world war two back in one nine hundred forty five some of those coming straight back from the front to march across red square that day now the celebrations here in russia and in moscow continue throughout the day here in the capital they come to a conclusion with a fantastic spectacular fireworks display at ten pm local time just making sure that this day is a celebration as well as a commemoration of the sacrifice paid for the freedoms we have today. and about our breaking news here on oxy for this hour indonesian authorities say a russian built sukhoi superjet aircraft has disappeared from radar could have crashed into a mountain. and are joining us live on the program with more tom can you bring us up to speed on the latest please. of course rory the plane was on its second demo flight at an indonesian airfie

helicopters bearing the flag of the russian federation as well as the ban as of the defense ministry and the army the navy and the air force around fourteen hundred veterans were in attendance to to witness this year's parade many of them had actually taken part in the parade to commemorate the victory in world war two back in one nine hundred forty five some of those coming straight back from the front to march across red square that day now the celebrations are here in russia and in moscow continue throughout the day here in the capital they come to a conclusion with a fantastic spectacular fireworks display at ten pm. kill time just making sure that this day is a celebration as well as a commemoration of the sacrifice paid for the freedoms we have today. are these put all of our reporting right over besides the soviet troops thousands of british soldiers sacrificed their lives during the war of course they went to see braving subzero temperatures in the arctic to deliver arms and food to the red army all in all four million tons of supplies were sent to the eastern front but as artie's are bennett reports their epic eff

three years, not from the time the marines come home, from the time the equipment comes home from afghanistan. >> the navy and air force disagree with the two, two to three year assessment? or does that -- sound about right for from your perspectives also. >> madam chair, from our perspective, the force demand is different on the navy as we withdraw out of land campaigns. we have sustained training our forces through this ten year period? what you saw in the budget, we invested in training. we invested in depot maintenance. brought it up to 100%. we remain reliant on the funding and we see that it will take at least two to three years for a transition, perhaps longer for us to sustain readiness levels. >> madam chair, the difference for us, much as you saw, after we came out of desert storm one and desert two. immediately following a combat, a change in mission, like we are seeing in iraq now, the actual requirement for air forces goes up. in order to facilitate that retrograde, to cover with, kinetic fires and isr, reduce the risk for the ground combat soldiers and marines as they do that mission. and we are seeing th

had the courage to go to israel and sign that and ended up getting killed by the muslim brotherhood eventually. mubarak came in, air force pilot. nothing against the air force pilots. he wasn't a navy pilot. but no one's perfect, right. air force pilot and he's been in there a long time. he could sit back and say gee, shouldn't he have moved faster to move toward freer systems so that turmoil under him wouldn't have bubbled over so fast. and so furiously. where are we today? well, where we are is that he was thrown out, and the impression in the arab world is that if you're a friend of the united states don't count on the united states because the feeling is we threw him under the truck, that our government, our white house, said he's been there too long and so forth. that's the impression in the arab world which makes other friends of the united states step back and wonder gee, are they allies and friends or aren't they? along with the muslim brotherhood control i think 73% of the parliament. i could be wrong by 3 or 4% but that's good enough for government work. what does that mean? you've got -- you have i'm going to guess, 60%, 70% of the men under 40 are probably unemployed in

but we know the facts and figures that there are more lawyers in the pentagon and american diplomats and more members of the armed forces marching band leader and the army, navy beat the airfinal point, to preach to the choir, the great majority of crises and challenges we will face in the next couple decades will lend themselves to diplomatic resolution and not military resolution from climate change to most of the fight against terrorism. it is political and economic to all the things we have to do to strengthen our alliances to coping with china. it will be a diplomatic imperative and we are weakening our diplomacy at a time when it is needed now more than ever. i very much agree with secretary clinton that we need a stronger budget for the state department. >> thank you. i am from the atlantic council. a fan of professor burns. thank you for this report. one of the bad things about being a new yorker is hedges. forgive this question. if germany does not rededicate its attentions to in nato and the u.k. does not follow through with its defense investment, france waivers and turkey is not able to deal with this internal situation, could you discuss a plan b? >> there is

the last ten years. we have had two ground wars, as you pointed out, and the operational tempo for the navy and for the air forcehas been very high as well. but we have also got the most resilient force we have ever had. we have got the highest educated, best trained, best skilled force we have ever had as a military. and one of the things we are trying to pay attention to is this stresses on the force and making sure da. >> rose: many are serving three and four terms. >> they are doing multiple tours. our ships are deployed over and over again. i was in the navy 40 years ago and they are deploying much more often and for longer periods of time than we did. but i think that if you look how resilient our military is and look at how we are rebalancing to do things and again it is a maritime centric thing, the u.s. navy can go in and do some of these things without taking up a square inch of anybody else's soil. we don't infringe on anybody's sovereignty. we come from the sea, we bring marines with us, so we are -- we have everything we need right there, and we can work with people without setting up bases, without