needed stability to the navy and the industrial base while authorizing a multi year procurement for both up to a quantity of ten. all told our subcommittee added roughly a billion dollars to navy ship building. with the delivery of the 30-year ship building plan we found that the new target for structure for the navy is 300 ships down from the previous floor of 313. this is somewhat strange when the national strategy after a decade of land wars has pivoted to the asia, pacific and middle east where both c power and air force projection forces are critical due to larger distances involved. the obama administration proposal to pivot to asia while cutting navy ship building and air force projection power makes no sense. another important provision in our mark was the requirement for the navy to maintain a minimum of 12 ballistic missile submarines which institutes 1/3 of the stealthiest leg. the navy plan delayed by two years the construction start of the first boat of the class which will replace our ohio class submarines. the two year delay equated to over a decade where there would b

the navy justified the ship -- the navy did not do an analysis of alternatives ahead of the program. it performs what my counterpart has called an analytic version birth. for reasons that are not clear to me, it is not clear why it needed to be 40 or 50 knots in terms of the speed. because of the power and the speed, it has a very limited range at high speeds. it has an average range at slow speeds. it is justified as a critical wartime assets. over the past two years, the justification has evolved more to peace time emissions. maritime security, engagement with allies, a port visits, exercises, ascension enforcement. -- sanctions enforcement. recently, he would be hesitant to send the lcs into an anti- access environment during wartime. he would be much more inclined to keep it because it will prevent a war because it will be performing those engagement partnerships. are there alternatives? one alternative is that if you think we will be buying 24 l if it is going to be using these ships, but you could up-arm a joint speed vessel. you could come up with a ship that would be suitable

as an example of this work, the navy reservists once again assumed 100% of the navy's commitment to the overseas contingency operation for fiscal year 2013 and beyond. i believe we must be asked, and even required to do those missions we are able to do. so the active component can focus on the missions they must do. this is my fourth and final year appearing before your committee. i'm proud of the accomplishments of our sailors and the navy. on behalf of our sailors and the families and civilians thank you for the commitment to our navy reserv reserve. >> mr. chairman, senator cochran, first of all, it's an honor to be here. thank you for the support you continue to give our soldiers and our nation. on behalf of the 205,000 soldiers in the army reserve that are serving the nation. what i refer to as a national treasure. and i think what epitomizes what the soldiers are all about is the young soldier i brought with me today. so instead of being eloquent in an opening statement and everything. i wanted to introduce him to you. seated to my left is sergeant daniel burgess and his wife jane

there's a theory or thesis that the future of the surface navy is to become the below surface navy because the marriage of ballistic missiles, cruise missile's with better surveillance technologies means navy's surface metal objects on the surface of the sea will be driven further and further ashore, and so they might as well be under water. so i wonder if, i'm particularly interest in what the navy feeling on that is by anybody else, eric our ben, chris, who have views on that. >> when i was looking at the navy's 30 year shipbuilding plan, that came a couple months back, that was one of the things that jumped out to me. if you look at the plan, your submarine fleet is actually getting smaller. it's shrinking. where as your surface fleet is increasing markedly. your surface combatant is increasing marginally. a lot of the issues that you just sit there, ben, came to my mind. we have the chinese with some of these guided missiles that look at our carriers at giant targets but if we're meaningfully talking about projecting force and controlling the seas, subs are great for taking out other s

. >> now, a conversation on the u.s. navy's bat ship a small surface vessel intend today maneuver coastlines. we'll hear from the undersecretary of the navy, robert work. this event, hosted by the cato institute, is an hour, 35 minutes. >> all right. thanks, everybody, for coming, and welcome also to those watching on c-span or online. i'm menfieldman here at -- ben friedman, here at cato, although i notice it says senior fellow, so i accept the promotion, and i assume it comes with a raise. [laughter] thanks, chris. we are hear to talk about the navy and the surface fleet in particular, and one reason for that is that we who do defense and foreign policy at cato are what i call relative navallists. we want to have a smaller u.s. military and have fewer wars, but where we do have wars we like for the force to come from the sea and not stick around that long. so we'd like to give a bigger portion of the smaller defense budget to the navy. and with that i'll introduce the speakers in in the order, i believe, that they're speaking

this will allow the navy to assign missions reserved from peace to war. while we'll first have the opportunity to budget for such use in fiscal year 2014, i want you to know how important the efforts were to the future force, while having the opportunity to do so. i'm also appreciative of your support for the navy unique fleet. they want us to be more cost effective and flexible, and thus more relevant well into the future. our 2013 budget request will enable the navy reserve to continue supporting current operations while maximizing the strategic value of the navy reserve, a value for the readiness, innovation, agility and accessibility. the true prize for the sailors and the navy alike will be the real and meaningful work as part of america's navy of global force for good. as an example of this work, the navy reservists once again assumed 100% of the navy's commitment to the overseas contingency operation for fiscal year 2013 and beyond. i believe we must be asked, and even required to do those missions we are able to do. so the active component can focu

>> we certainly do in the navy. in our primary office that we set up a few years ago, we set up a career transition office that is handling all of these transitions. we are proud of the work they have done to reduce the time it takes to make the transition. it used to be four or six months, down to it two or three days by making the process smoother. we do look forward to the active component that has been so full start to transition. we will have an opportunity to bring these sailors into the reserve components. we want to make it as smooth as possible. most has been our policies within the department. there have been several things that you have been very helpful with in making that happen. did the most important thing we need to do is to have real and meaningful work for those soldiers to do when they get to the reserve components. that is why access and other provisions of the very important to us moving forward. >> what about the marines? >> thank you. since he has taken over, general amos has revamped the assis

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 less mission-essential areas, i challenge the service

can the navy afford its plan? for the last 30 years the navy has spent $16 billion a year on new construction, refueling of submarines, delivery, everything. the navy's 2013 plan proposes to spend on average over the next 30 years $16.8 billion a year for new construction alone. when you add in all the other things, you're talking about $18.5 billion a year per year over the next 30 years. of that money, a lot of this will be loaded beyond the fit- up. the cost of this is $13.7 billion a year. we do not know how the sequestration is going to play out, but regardless, it seems clear whether we get a change in the budget, that may have a further impact on the amount of funding available. is the navy buying the right ships? the navy's plan has been making changes to the service combatant forces. it truncated a program, canceled another, it has restarted another line, it is proposing to modify a line as the economy exists with an improved radar. it has maintained 55 lcs in that program. a recent report raised questions

>> chairman inouye, we certainly do in the navy. we, a couple years ago, career transition office in millington all of these transitions and are proud of the work they've done to reduce the time it takes to make the transition. what used to literally be four to six months down to somewhere two or three days by analyzing the process and making it smoonler. smoother. we believe as we look forward here in the next couple of years that the active component lane that's been so full and stayed full starts to transition we'll have an opportunity to bring those sailors into the reserve component. we want to make that transition as seamless as possible. most regulations and policies within the department. there have been several things over the last several years you have been helpful with in making that happen. i would say the most important thing we need to do, i mentioned earlier, we have to call meaningful work for the soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen when they get to the component, that's why assured access and other provisions will be

how does that affect the navy and its role and its significance? > well, this new defense strategy which the president announced in january, and which he was in intimately involved in crafting, and had a all of the joint chiefs, all the service secretary, secretary of defense very involved in this, it is mainly a maritime strategy and focuses on the western pacific and focuses on the arabian gulf region, both of which are maritime, entities, and it places, i think, additional responsibility on the navy and the marine corps, but it is a continuation of our historic role. we have been a pacific power for decades now. we have been a persistent presence in the western pacific and this simply adds to that and focuses on it, but i do think it enhance it is navy and the marine corps's role as we move forward with the defense of this country .. >> when you look at the possibility of war, we are now extracting ourselves from afghanistan, obviously, and iraq, we have done that. can what kind of war are we looking at? >> number one, one of our big goals is to

the short answers to those questions, -- the navy of ford the plans -- can the navy afford the plans? probably not. can the navy afford its plan put last 30 years the navy has spent $16 billion a year, new construction, refueling of submarines, delivery, everything. the navy's 2013 plan proposes to spend on average over the next 30 years $16.8 billion a year for new construction alone. when you add in all of the other things, you're talking about $18.5 billion a year per year over the next 30 years. of that money, a lot of this on to be loaded beyond the fit- up. the cost of this is 13 -- $7 billion a year. we do not know how holt sequestration is going to play out, but regardless, it seems clear whether we get a change in the budget, that may have a further impact on the amount of funding available. as it is the navy by the right ships? the navy's plan has been made changes to the service combatant forces. truck crated eight program, canceled another, it has restarted another line, it is proposing to modify a line as economy exists with an improved radar. has maintained -- it has mai

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about the importance of the u.s. navy. but what is the prospect of this budget we approve the schedule for ship construction and maintenance and adding new ships to the fleet. is it robust enough to take care of responsibilities for national defense that falls exclusively under the jurisdiction of the na navy? >> yes, sir, and i would respectfully like to defer that question if i could. primarily because in the navy reserve, which is my responsibility, obviously, we do have a reserve fleet of now nine fr frigates and as we're retiring those frigates, we're bringing more in to replace them until we retire all of our navy reserve frigates. as i look forward in the future, our involvement once those frigates are retired will primarily be with combat ship program which, as you know, is ramping up and we're in active discussions with navy and where we in the navy reserve will play into that. the larger question of the entire ship building program is one that i would like to defer obviously to the secretary and the cno. i will sa

they are noon at the navy memorial. as you all know, and have been trying to get the book marcus' new book is service, service a -- service service a i navy seal at work. she is a nainttive of huntsville, texas. he joined the navy in 1999 and after becoming a navy seal 2002 severalled around the world. after serving two tours in iraq. he was deployed to afghanistan in the spring of 2005. for the action red wings he was warded the their i have cross in 2006 by george w. bush. after recovering the wounds, he served a second tour in iraq and received a discharge from the navy in june 2007. he is the author of the book "lone survivor" and a very poplar speaker. we can see that by the great turnout. in 2010 to honor the comrades from operation redwing. he -- warriors by providings unique education, rehabilitatation, recovery and wellness opportunities to u.s. armed forces service mens and their families. please join me in westbounding -- in welcoming marcus lou trel to luttrell to the navy memorial. [applause] >> please, sit

resolution urging the secretary of the navy to christen a ship as the "u.s.s. harvey milk." supervisor chiu: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: thank you very much, mr. president. colleagues, before us today is a resolution to support a great honor for one of the most iconic figures in the history of san francisco, as well as the lgbt community. this idea came from the community in san diego. as you probably know by now, supervisor harvey milk was a naval officer who served in korea. this was an important aspect of his life. i am told by those who know him that he talked about his military service and that, although, like many people, he was against the vietnam war, he remained proud of his military service. if you go to harvey milk plaza, in the muni station there is a series of photos of supervisor milk in various points in his life. one of those photos is a photo of him as an officer in the navy. supervisor milk wore a navy dealt with a master divert bought call. someone sent me pictures -- master diver buckle. someone sent me a picture of him wearing it at his headqua

secretary of the navy mavis called the authority to allow the d.o.d. to enter into long-term contracts for alternative fuels. the accounting for 2% of u.s. energy consumption the department is the single largest energy in the country. according to the admiral mike mullen, former chairman of the joint chiefs, using 300,000 barrels of oil every day, energy use per soldier creeps up every year. no one know the better than the department energy supplies are critical to combat troops and our national security. the defense sector to adopt domestically produced fuels for the security of our troops without these. secretary mavis outlined several goals to lead the navy towards a nor energy secure fleet. by 2015, reduce petroleum in the commercial fleet by 50%. by 2020 the navy produces 50% of the shore base energy requirements from alternative sources and 50% of total energy consumption will come from alternative sources. to ultimate realize the goal wes must scale up biofuel protection in the united states. one way to help, allow the department to engage in lo

the span. he flew his banshee, a navy jet, under it, over the top and then back under again. john highland, head of the tactical test division got wind of the stunt and called shepherd into his office. having admired his skill, but he couldn't condone such flights or every yahoo would try to it. he gave him a lecture about flat hatting. a few weeks later, shepherd was returning from a test flight out over the chesapeake and decided to take a detour up to ocean city. the bustling beach town on the eastern shore. her screamed across the beach, flowing the bikini tops off a number of sunbathing women. he was moving too fast, but a photographer from a philadelphia newspaper happened to be taking pictures and caught the stunt on film. shepherd was summoned before rear admiral alfred m. pride, the no-nonsense commander who chewed shepherd's butt, then issued a letter of sen sur, a black mark that would follow him the rest of his career. but apparently pride's sen sur wasn't -- censure wasn't severe enough. shepherd was among a select group of navy pilots trained to fly even higher,

today the navy is surging to provide two aircraft carrier strike groups in the middle east while at the same time sustaining a continuous carrier strike group presence in the western pacific. in response to heightened tensions, we are augmenting our forces in the central command area with additional mine counter measure assets, patrol craft, and a float forward staging base support vessel, the refitted "uss ponce." this agility of naval forces to respond to crises is to our reserve maintenance and training. supporting this current level of surge above our program budget levels is not sustainable over the long-term within our current level of resources. to sustain this high operational tempo, we will face the choice between reducing the maintenance on our platforms and shortening their expected service lives, reducing the training on our personnel, or increasing the stress on our force through longer deployments. today we are dependent upon the receipt of oco, or similar supplemental funding to sustain our readiness. this year, the added costs of providing these surge forces, given fuel

affairs and on the london staff of the commander u.s. navy forces europe. as a former army officer, you had some pretty nice assignments there, captain manning. >> i did. >> captain manning served on the secretary of veterans affairs advisory committee on women veterans from 1998 to 2004 and on the military advisory committee on the legal service network from 2006 to 2009. she's a recognized expert on veterans issues, particularly as they apply to women. she's been a frequent guest commentator on a plethora of television and radio networks that are too numerous to mention. it's the whole alphabet we all know about tv and radio. it is now my pleasure to turn the podium over to captain lori manning who will introduce the panel members and lead our discussion. ladies and gentlemen, captain lori manning. [ applause ] >> thank you. it's great to be here on this beautiful and moderately cool, which i prefer to the 80-degree weather outside. it's gorgeous around this building today. before i introduce the first of the speakers, i want to give you a

as an example of this work, the navy reserve has assumed 100% of the navy's individual august men tee permitment to the overseas operations for fiscal year '13 and beyond. i believe the reserve components, all of us in the national guard, must be asked and even required to do those missions we are able to do so that the active component can focus on the missions that they must do for our national security. as you know, this is my fourth and final year appearing before your committee. i'm proud of the accomplishments of our sailors in the navy reserve and the navy and truly thankful for the support of this congress providing our quest to become a true, total force. on behalf of our sailors and their families and civilians of our navy reserve, thank you for your continued support and your commitment to our navy reserve. >> thank you, admiral. general stults? >> mr. chairman, senator cochran, first of all, it's an honor to be here. and thank you for all the support that you've continued to give our soldiers and our families and our nation. on behalf of the 205,000 soldiers in the army re

again, those programs are at noon here at the navy memorial. as you all know and have been trying to get the book market's new book by little brown publishers is service a navy seal what war written with james horned fisher and we regret that we've ran out of books. i can come to light if we are not able to get books markets can sign one for you after the talk. marcus luttrell as a native of consul texas. he joined the navy in 1999, and after becoming a navy seal in 2002, he served in many dangerous special operations assignments around the world. after serving the two tours and iraq, he was deployed to afghanistan in the spring of 2005. for his actions during operation red wings, petty officer first class luttrell was awarded the navy plans for combat terrorism in 2006 by president george w. bush. after recovering from his wounds, he served as the second tour in iraq and received his discharge from the navy in june of 2007 and a very popular speaker you can see that by the great turnout tonight in 2010 to honor his comrades from operation red w

the u.s. navy'satest study says that some are as well as explosive testing can-in and even kill up to 1600 marine mammals per year >> i'm very surprised they came out with the number and that number is the tip of the iceberg. impact to marine mammals is much more dramatic than we ever thought >> he compares the areas to testing in war zones and says the actual harm is for greater than the navy admits >> 14 million instances of harm to marine mammals. hearing loss and of course there will be instances of outright death >> even temporary hearing loss is very serious >> marine mammals depend on their ability to hear for all of their life functions, to find food and mates, to know where they're going when they migrate, they depend upon it the same way we depend on sight >> the only defense they have is the law which protects them in their native habitat >> absent the navy and their trading activities >> they're not opposed to the navy training with sonar but they want them to be selective about where the

and things that affect the navy on the waters around the world. that's about ten pages of the treaty. and certainly, we need to deal with this, there are a lot of theoretical advantages i think have been discussed, as mentioned by the general. the united states plays by the rules and the idea that we get into a rules-based system with other nations that establish some international rules of engagement, theoretically, i think we can have honest debate on how we come out on that. i know we brought china into the wto, because we thought if we could get them in a rules-based system, we would have a fairer system. it hasn't worked out that way. only a few months ago, a lot of us here on the panel were skweeming about china manipulating their currency. we know when we try to deal with them, the u.n. on sanctions against iran, not all of the members play by the rules. they're not always that effective. and of course we have a history of arms treaty, when we go back and finds that the other players are not playing by the rules. we could have a reasonable

cross tournament, the caps get reflective and navy man goes bowling for dollars, but we gun with the nats. if you're going to rock the red, do it for the nationals. in first place in the nl east and in today's game with cincy and looking for the three- game sweep of the season for them. top of the 6th tied 2-2. danny espinosa thoughs one down the right field line. adam laroche scores. by the time the reds relay it in bryce harper scores and the nats are in front 4-2. bottom of the 8th now nats lead 6-3. jay bruce with two outs, fly ball to right field. bryce harper has no idea where this ball is. he's like where is it? i don't know. it's over his head. lands on the track. two reds score. nats lead slides touchings 5. the nats one strike from -- slides 6-5. the nats one strike from a win. the nats are defeated 9-6. atlanta takes over first in the nl east and afterwards bryce harper was asked about what happened when he loss that fly ball. fly -- lost that fly ball. >> i had no clue. i have no idea. it happened. i had no clue where it was. i was just hoping ankiel saw it and could catc

talk about the navy's roll from iraq to afghanistan to iran, all over the world right now. >> the navyole. i'll give you one day in the navy. picked a day from last year. on one day, we had 20,000 marines fighting in afghanistan. we had another 4,000 sailors on the ground in afghanistan supporting the 12,000 sailors at sea flying combat air over afghanistan. that same day, we had submarines and destroyers launching tomahawk missiles in libya. we had a ship with marine air going over libya. >> right. >> same day, fighting on foot off the coast of africa, the same day the ronald reagan strike group delivered assistance to japan, same day going around africa, south american south pacific. the navy is everywhere. we are america's away team. when we are doing a job, we are a long, long way from home. people don't understand how good the navy is. just how good the marines are. just how skilled and dedicated they are. >> obviously, the marines are the tip of the spear. the army has been spread thin. talk about the marines, have they been stretched thin by the challenges? >> we ask a lot of th

the u.s. navyrecognizing the desire of the president to remove the block 30s decided to reverse course and to move their navy version of the global hawk from deal or fair where it was originally to go and move it to the naval station in southern california. we have changed all that. we decided that the global hawk was going to continue and therefore the navy's desire, regional desire to stay in the field and then go to magoo no longer made any sense because we decided global hawks would continue and to be located and the synergy that originally led to the naval decision to go to med deal are still in place. in other words the reason is no longer in existence. so what we are talking about is to try to give all of us some time to understand what is going to happen. we may or may not be able to continue the global hawk. while we are extending its life in this bill, global hawk block 30 we are extending its life in this bill and we are nonetheless moving a piece of the isr officially out of mcbeal. the

and personally, serving in the navy, i'm a little biased. about the importance of the u.s. navy. but what is the -- what is the prospect of this budget, if we approve the schedule for ship construction, maintenance, adding new ships to the fleet? is it robust enough to take care of responsibilities for national defense? under the restriction of the navy? >> yes, sir, and i would respectfully like to defer that question, if i could. primarily because in the navy reserve which is my responsibility, obviously, we do have a navy reserve fleet of now nine frigates. as we're retiring those frigates we're bringing active frigates into the reserve fleet to replace them. until we retire all of our navy reserve frigates. as i look forward in the future, our involvement in the reserve, once the frigates are retired it, primarily with battle ship program, ramping up and in active discussions with navy on where we and the nerve reserve will play into that. the larger question of the entire ship-building program i think is probably one i would like to defer obviously to the secretary and coo. h