>> this is the heart of the pentagon, in washington, d.c. since the early years of world war ii, this building has been the home of america's department of defense. it's one of the largest office buildings in the world. about 23,000 people come here to work every day. a good many of them are not even members of our armed forces-- many are civilian employees from all walks of life. all of them, though, are mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. the men and women who travel these halls every day come here for one purpose only: to help defend our nation and the cause of freedom around the world. it's been that way for nearly 70 years. the story you're about to hear today is a story i hope will reach every american, because it's really a story about america, about ordinary american families, about how we face the perils, uncertainties, and tragedies of life, and about how we, as individuals and a nation, come together to heal the wounds of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for all that we hold dear. it's a story o

let's unleash these same market forces within the pentagon. i say, if the activity is available from a private company, then let the pentagon contract out that good or service to the private company. or, instead, let's cause those within the pentagon that offer that service to compete with the private vendor. i don't think that lp demoralize our federal work force. i think that will actually, you know, increase their esteem, increase their morale. they will understand that they are standing on their own two feet and actually providing high-quality services at low costs. soless so let's unshackle the pentagon. empower those within the pentagon to get the most bang to their bum and this will be the best thing for our entire federal government, for fiskfis stability and i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. schilling for two minutes. >> thank you, chairman. one of the things that i like to point out is we definitely need to proeceed with caution with this. the largest concentration of swi

by the media's response it was it was a portion of the media the pentagon media the nest security media there was still this really intense you know hatred among among a few of my colleagues and i think the sort of insight i had or what i kind of realized was that the pentagon press corps is just that they're the press corps for the pentagon and i know that sounds overstated well they serve the pentagon and they're scared to hurt the feeling that we're getting to step on the tales of the. well after mcchrystal was relieved of his command he was hired by yele university to teach a graduate course and mcchrystal transparency issues didn't end there you see a two thousand and ten documentary about pat tillman the professional football player turned soldier who was killed reignited interest in the crystals role in the pentagon covering up at the pentagon cover up surrounding his death now instead of pressuring the re crystal to be more open about the tillman case and the role that he played with torture squads in iraq while he was commander of j. fox yalla savage in oregon sat on their hand

and his departure from the pentagon in 1968, as much i think as lbj's march 31st speech of that year marked the glorious end of an era once bright with promise. as the war provoked increasingly nasty divisions in the united states, mcnamara became a target for critics from both left and right. unaware of his muted tightly constrained and largely internalized descent, doves viewed him as the technocrat as his blind faith in technology and statistics plunged the united states into a destructive quagmire. hawks, on the other hand, announced with growing venom his alleged refusal to give the military the freedom and the means to win a war, in their view, imminently winnable. in my experience, talking with veterans over the last 40 years, only the name jane fonda is likely to provoke more anger than that of robert mcnamara. the publication of his memoir in 1995, and his admission that in his words we were wrong, terribly wrong, ignited the war over the war yet again. for both sides once more raising the issue of how the secretary of defense could have stuck with a war he had come to see as

the budget for the pentagon calling for $554 billion plus $88 billion for the war in afghanistan. the budget would cut the service by -- cut military personnel by 21,000 and give service member as 1.7% pay raise. committees in recess for lunch and votes on the house floor. live kov rouge when they resume. we spoke positive a reporter earlier who has been covering today the markup session for details on what's happened so far and what's ahead. >> joining us is mark oliveri, a defense and foreign policy reporter with congressional quarterly. what are some of biggest issues the committee has to deal with in this 2013 programs bill? >> well, i'm sorry. i didn't hear your question. i think you asked the big issues they're dealing with. what they've actually dealt with, pretty big things. congressman turner was able to get an amendment passed or adopted here that essentially would provide $160 million for the execution of what's called a chemistry and metallurgy replacement over los alamos. it's a program that the obama administration would like to delay, because it's a significant amou

versus the poor and house votes to spare pentagon from automatic budget cuts trims domestic programs instead. so why is it that elected leaders and the american people don't see eye to eye when it comes to defense spending to talk about this i'm joined by retired retired arnie army colonel douglas macgregor hey douglas so it seems like everyone across the board can agree that you know we need to cut the pentagon why is it that the pentagon is not being cut were a couple reasons the first is this sort of support for bloated defense spending is being a roading for some time the american people have simply walked away from these interventions so this new data is not surprising but there's a second problem and that is that defense spending doesn't necessarily equate to real military capability defense spending is really involved with a lot of redistribution of taxpayer income to various states and districts across the country so while collectively people say by all means cut defense when you begin to look at what's likely to go away people say well wait a minute that's going to

gain more access to one takes place on the web here's a headline in the washington post today the pentagon expands a cyber security exchange essentially as many as a thousand defense contractors may volunteer to share some previously classified information with the pentagon to try to crack down on cyber threats and according to the washington post this new relationship is being hailed as

i think it's about time to tell the pentagon we need to have decent management. we've built over 30 of the aircraft. you know, when it is that we're going to have an ioc date on it. so this is only about just getting that date, and get:00 it before march of next year. and so that's the purpose of this amendment, mr. chairman. i am aware that there might be just a little opposition to the amendment. but on the other hand, we do need to deal with project management and take it very seriously, especially on the biggest project that we've ever spent money on. thank you. >> gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition? >> i have a secondary amendment at the desk, mr. chairman. >> an amendment to the amendment, if you will. will the clerk please pass out the amendment. without objection, reading of the amendment will be dispensed with. >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman for the purposes of offering and explaining his substitute amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. first of all, let me agree with mr. aikin on the ch

about a sign from the fact that they bumped up defense spending by an extra eight billion that the pentagon didn't even ask for they're also bumping up as part of that spending on nuclear. so let's talk about that let's talk about what that might do to the the new start treaty that was just signed great so i worked on the house armed services committee staff for seven years i've tracked this process for decades this is the most extreme defense bill i've ever seen come out of the house of representatives and it's part of what's wrong with washington how it's broken down there's no could this is passed and almost triply party line so you don't get the kind of reasonable consensus among the elders that you used to get in the house so what you have is a bill that violates the law it puts eight billion dollars more than the congress passed last year limiting the amount of money you could spend on defense it actually in some ways violates the constitution it bans gay marriage is a military base is something that's allowed in states and of course it goes crazy nukes it says we're going to construc

but there's no grand bargain coming in the lameduck and that's where the pentagon is falling into the trap of thinking they're going to save this to the end of the day. the defense budget is hostage to a tax hike and a debt ceiling deal. the two biggest issues. >> that was the whole idea to force everybody into making a deal. >> to think you can change a new debt ceiling agreement by fixing the old one and changing the bill payer is not going to fly. >> mckenzie is right in this sense and that is to say there's not a grand bargain ever. there's no 10-year deal that's going to emerge in our lifetime. >> swallow with a bitter pill. >> my judgment is there will be something that pushes sequester off to the right. >> i agree. >> this debate really hasn't progressed much since last august when the deal was struck. >> this conversation is virtually identical to the one we've been having for months. that's just great. >> the proposals that have been put forward are partisan on both sides. they aren't compromises, they're not getting closer to compromise in any way. that's what's required, to

the pentagon papers was a very indicative moment. i tried to find some way to some of their relationship in the book. they go back and forth and people are expecting that kay graham was in love with ben bradlee. ultimately, that's not the case, and it was their contract and it worked. in 1995, kay threw him a book party when his memoir came out, a good life. it will make you see how much i had to leave out any 472 page book. at the end of the party, he realized that he hadn't given ka book yet. kay graham, his boss, the woman who paid him and maybe we'll wealthy man out of him. he wrote her a note and he wrote this. catherine, you have been the most important force in my life. you have been a joyous partner who makes my heart weep every time i see you. there's nothing i can change that. not even my own momentary selfishness. the party with such a generous gesture. your words were so graceful and welcome. we everything about you comes across to me. love, then. i think that is a wonderful foundation and dissemination of who they were an

versus the poor and house votes to spare punt pentagon from automatic budget cuts trims domestic programs instead. so why is it that elected leaders and the american people aren't seeing eye to eye when it comes to defense spending to discuss this i'm joined by the man who wrote this book michael o'brien is the author of america's failure in iraq and he's here to help me follow the money. michael you know it seems like americans all across the board can agree that cutting the pentagon is really something they want to see why is this not having i mean our congress completely bought out by defense contractors and that's probably the main reason. there's a lot of reasons but that would have to be the biggest one. you know the term the military industrial complex. we've really heard it for the first time when and why eisenhower gave his farewell address to the nation in one thousand nine hundred sixty one right before he with the white house and it was because he was afraid of the strength the power of a companies that had built weapons and supported our military during the

let's unleash the same market forces within the pentagon. say if the activity is available from a private company, let the pentagon contract out the good or service to the private company or instead, let's cause those within the pentagon that offer that service to compete with the private vendor. i don't tank a double to more laser federal workforce. i think it will actually increase their esteem, increase morale. they would understand they are standing on their own two feet and are providing high quality services at low cost. so let's unshackle the pentagon. let's empower those up in the pentagon to get the most bang for the buck and this will be the best thing for the entire federal government for fiscal responsibility and also hope to use the economy. i support mr. train for his amendment, cheney met for readership in this area and i yield back. >> gentlemen yields back in the chair recognizes mr. schilling for two minutes. >> thank you, chairman. one of the things i like to point out is because they need to proceed with caution with this.

the waste, fraud, and abuse at the pentagon, the wasteful weapon systems at the pentagon. i will tell you, i don't care what leon panetta says, there's savings to be found in the pentagon budget. we ought to go after that. we ought to make sure that donald trump pays his fair share in taxes and ought to close these corporate tax loopholes that allow corporations to get away with paying no taxes. middle income families can't do that. this is about fairness. that's what we are looking for. fairness and balance. this is a tough time. rather than following the european model which my friends seem to love of as you taret and cut, cut, cut -- and austerity and cut, cut, cut, we should invest in a robust highway bill to put people back to work, investing in education making sure our young people are compared to compete in the 21st century economy. and yes, investing in a social safety net and investing in programs that provide a circle of protection to the poor and most vulnerable. there is nothing wrong with that. we should be proud of the fact that we are a country that cares .

taking bogus defectors the information from him giving him to the pentagon and the iraqi national congress then giving him to the journalists and they said if you don't believe us iraqi national congress call the pentagon so you have the circular reporting and you had the new york times admitting that it was using one source for all of its information and weapons of mass destruction and it was you know self affirming by going to the pentagon which to put this stuff on paper it was. a lot of exaggerations partial information sometimes the whole information but on balance a very one sided view of iraq's w m d program and a lot of these stories the journalist didn't want to look into because the editors told them to run with it we're going to be supportive of the administration it's the patriotic thing to do i think that there was on the part of the media too much of of in a sense getting into the upcoming war and not enough look at do we really need to go there were some journalists out there raising the alarm bells the seymour hersh is the walter pincus of the world but unfortunately those

so we're now in a situation where gao is telling us that the cost of 2005 was tripled with the pentagon projected when they came out with their initial proposal back then that the saving won't be until 2018 outside of the fit-up that we're dealing with right now and i think mr. whitman's proposal is totally justified in terms of the fact that we still have not been given any coherent explanation about how a brac round fits within the budget control act with any reasonable horizon of savings, and the hearings that we held as a committee to try and illicit that information basically came up with zero. so this idea of another brac round, frankly, requires a lot more, well, study and also feedback to this committee, which i think has the responsibility in the wake of 2005 not to just issue the green light and allow another process to go forward when, again, i think the confidence level of many of us and certainly the public is very low, based on the experience that we just went through and, again, i just want to say that the folks who sat on that commission in 2005 were, again, shielded fro

so if we were to force the pentagon to do this, we can set the date. so we're not actually accomplishing a great deal with the underlying amendment. so this is a simple way of saying, yes, the committee is still very focused on making sure we get to initial operating capability. but hopefully do so in a way that doesn't send the wrong message about the program. we are, for better or worse, committed to the program. we have to keep up the pressure and make sure it gets delivered and keeps the capability. continue to say we need initial operating capability. this eliminating the threat and continues to make clear to get back on schedule. i yield back. >> i agree with everything that the rank members say. this future will be 95% of our air fighter force. it's important we get it right. is there any further debate on the amendment? >> mr. chairman, yes. i would like to talk about the substitute amendment. >> well the substitute amendment, essentially if you take it at face value, it's saying we're going to get an ioc date not later then 2031. i'm requestin

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it makes no sense to me at all we would want to limit the options available to the pentagon. and i simply reuse that argument from the previous debate, the previous amendment. so we ought not do this and we ought to oppose this amendment. >> gentleman yields back. any other -- no further discussion on the amendment. chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia m scott. >> i'll be very brief about it. the last time i checked this was the arm services committee not the environmental committee or the commerce committee. i would go back to what one of the people that works for the navy said that they were trying to develop an industry here that revolved around alternative fuels, and i would just suggest that the sooner the united states government gets out of the alternative fuel business the sooner the american citizens will benefit from alternative sources of fuel. thank you, mr. chairman. i intend to vote for the amendment. >> chairman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentle lady from hawaii for five minutes. >> thank you. thank you mr. chair. mr. chair, i speak in oppositi

leading authorities on vietnam was a man named bernard full, who lived a 20-minute drive from the pentagon. why did mcnamara and his colleagues never bother to talk to dr. full, other than the reason that he never said what they wanted to hear? >> the story, there is a story about that. one time when the -- i think it was in '63, maybe '64, and they were agonizing over vietnam, and i think mcnamara may have been the person who suggested that some expertise was needed, and someone actually suggested that hall, who was then at university, would be the ideal person. and eventually, and the context is not that clear to me, eventually, according to the stories i've heard, and this is something somebody tells in a memoir rather than something documented in another way, that they were skeptical about fall because he was french. this may have been a time -- yeah, right. i know. but that's the story. i'm just repeating the story that was told. and they went to an english journalist, p.j. honey, i think, who had written extensively on vietnam, and i think -- i don't know whether he was in the united

more fully, because the president of the united states has spoken out on it. >>> live now from the pentagon, defense secretary leon panetta and joint chiefs of staff chairman martin demps ey. this is live coverage. >>> good afternoon. let me -- let me begin with some comments on the defense budget. i've spent much of this week including two hours this morning on capitol hill, dinner last night here at the pentagon reaching out to members of congress and to senators to talk about where things stand as congress begins to debate a markup and consider the defense budget in earnest. my message to congressional leaders remains the same. congress passed the budget control act. it requires a reduction of defense spending of $487 billion over the next ten years. as i've said, we do not have to choose between national security and fiscal security. but that does not mean that we do not have to make tough choices. we do. and defense should not be exempt from doing its share to reduce the deficit. what that means is, we have to make very difficult decisions. difficult decisions that are tied to a strate

the attack on the seat of military power in the pentagon. and except for the courage of the passengers on the flight that was brought down in shanksville, pennsylvania, undoubtedly an attack on the seat of political power, either the white house or the congress, the capitol. and it was a day none of us will ever forget. the president of the united states properly recognized that the purpose of terrorism was to terrorize and to alter our behavior and to cause us to change the way we live. and he did something, made a decision that was notably different from our country's behavior through different administrations of both political parties in the preceding period. decided that they had to go on the offense. and to use the phrase that was cited earlier, that given the lethality of weapons in this decade, a decade of after 2001, and the risk that it could be not 3,000 people killed but 300,0 300,000, caused him to conclude that he had to declare a war on that and do everything conceivable not to defend only but to reach out and make everything th

get a lot worse we'll tell you how congress is making students learn about finances the hard way lights camera pentagon the do d. and white house released top secret info about the raid that killed osama bin laden to a hollywood director and is this an attempt to gain positive attention an election year we'll explore. it's wednesday may twenty third eight pm in washington d.c. i'm abby martin and you're watching r.t. the first amendment clearly states that congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion the founders clearly understood the importance of your right to practice or not practice religion in this country however in a predominantly christian nation the significance of atheism is growing popularity has been underscored in today's social dialogue atheism is one of the fastest growing social movements in the country yes it is a movement and it's also gaining substantial political ground earlier this year d.c. as reason rally brought in twenty thousand people in the pouring rain to stand for atheistic ideals so as atheism a force to be reckoned with and what will this mean t

are they cutting any programs to free up money to pay for the pentagon? >> none yet. fact the chairman of the joint chiefs went so far today east coast shield isn't even needed. >> in my military judgment the program of record for ballistic missile defense for the homeland as we submitted it adequate and sufficient to the task. that's a sweet ground based and sea based interceptors so i don't see a need beyond what we have submitted in the last budget. >> if this budget passes, the defense secretary says other pressing projects will have to be cut, shepard. >> shepard: jennifer griffin tonight at the pentagon. thank you. we all know the sun can be a health hazard but it seems a lot of folks don't care or something. that's the finding from a government study which suggests young adults don't take skin cancer warnings seriously at all. according to this new report, half of u.s. adults under the age of 30 have had a suspect burn in the last year. that's about the same rate as academic indicated ago before intense campaigns to warn that the sun can kill you if you are not

let's just not talk about all the things that are going wrong right that's no fun and so of course the pentagon doesn't like anyone prying especially not the press then why even bother now yemen and the increasing operations by the cia there are perfect example. united states on the whole in yemen it's a hot spot that country claiming u.s. drone strikes killed eleven terrorists over the weekend. no immediate confirmation from the pentagon on that which usually does not publicly acknowledge that strike said he would. give fox a little bit of props for at least spending ten seconds bringing it up but of course is only because we supposedly got eleven bad guys which the pentagon won't even really confirm i didn't see any of the other cable networks even blink about this story today and if you ask me that's a problem and it's a problem because we've learned increasingly especially over the last few weeks about the growth of our shadow war in gamut from the cia signature strikes being approved by the white house to this whole underwear bomber plot two point zero fiasco but it's no coincidence that j

. >> i talked with thomas, his wife was killed at the pentagon on 9/11. he said he stayed behind because the trial hasn't even started yet, and he says none of the court proceedings will bring his wife back. >> it's not going to change anything. >> thomas's wife michelle was on flight 77 that crashed into the pentagon. she died just of their 30th wedding anniversary. >> not just a lover, but my best friend. >> a long legal process. >> we're now in many respects having to relive that day. you've had 3,000 families who are having to relive the months, the days, even the years of pain and suffering. >> the trial could still be months away. >> i would be naive if i said it didn't affect me. it affects us all, whether you lost somebody that day or whether you didn't. >> after the loss of his wife, he helped build a pentagon memorial as one of the projects board of directors. since 9/11, michelle has missed their daughter's marriage, the birth of their grandchild and other milestones. he has also remarried. >> on a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. i think

pick one, national &p why america's top commanders away from the pentagon's tay budget. threatening ameeica's bate ssability once again. agaan. top military officers are begging congress trillion ollars in cuts to defense spendinn which they saa will hollow out our military. mike emaauel america's military ssrength is literally hanging by a thread. thread. austtn says: "if we diin't have that sword offdamocles hanging over our head we would be in much better shape." army vice chief of sttff general lloyd austin issued that warning to laamakers as the pentagon is due to take the brunt of $110 illion in mmndatory spending cuus in january. the vice chief of naval operations sayssthe reductions nownnass seeuestration would limit the navy's ability to respood to pot spott around the world. also cause us to go back and sequestration is not theeforce that could support the current strategy that we are operating under." house reppblicans areetrying to prevent that from happening by passing a bill today to instead trim what they argue pnnorder to stop slaahing the - military budg

the early accounts of what happened in this raid but there's no question that the reason that the pentagon and the cia cooperated with these filmmakers was because they thought it was going to be a positive portrayal of what had gone on here they really trusted bigelow because of the hurt locker movie and they decided that these were people who were worth collaborating with in order to make a very positive movie at least until this became controversial and now they seem to have backed away from the whole deal. joe you know you don't think it's fantastic i mean that the story changed so many times i lost track first using the wives as human shields i mean i don't even really know what the final story is i mean has the press been given is the press privy to information that i don't maybe know about that that solidifies what the government says to be true. i mean as you say it did this story did change i think some of the initial reports a lot of them come out based on anonymous sources so you don't really know if those are people who actually know what happened and or not or if they know wha

well today on r t if sharing is caring and the pentagon cares about you an awful lot or about your online data anyway it's tightening its grip around your cyber freedoms and bringing in the big guns all for the sake of national security we'll tell you how and more importantly why this cyber crackdown is gaining steam. and banking on disaster if you thought big banks were done making big gambles you bet wrong it seems the more things change the more they stay the same specially when it comes to risking your money. plus the race for the republican nomination is getting red white and bruised as supporters for mitt romney start a battle royale with ron paul a fiction otto's throwing around both votes and up punches we'll tell you how these voters are duking it out for delegates. it is monday may fourteenth four pm in washington d.c. my name is christine you're watching our teeth. well let's begin with a look at some important changes in the works all in the name of cyber security now we've been talking about some of these for months and about some partnerships that have been forming between t

army vice chief of sttff general lloyd austin issued that warning to laamakers as the pentagon is due chief of naval operations sayssthe reductions nownnass seeuestration would limit the navy's ability to respood to pot spott around the world. also cause us to go back and sequestration is not theeforce that could support the current strategy that we are operating under." house reppblicans areetrying to prevent that from happening by passing a bill today to instead trim what they argue pnnorder to stop slaahing the - military budget.ryan says: &p"not only does it hollow out defense according to thh defeese secretary buu also creates an 8% across the board cut to domestic discretionary spending like national institutee of the health and we think we should prrvent thaa in a bipartisan basis." though democrats oppose the meassre. defense secretary leon panetta applauded the effort, buttsaid its cuts are too cootroversial. anetta says: "the guaranteed resultsswill be conffontatiin, gridlock, and a &pgreater likelihood of sequester again, the key is to work ogether." a huge ccallenge for th

according to the pentagon's base structure report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in thirty eight countries more than two hundred fifty thousand soldiers stationed on these bases in addition to this the u.s. has a military presence in one hundred ten countries around the world. a year after his election barack obama approved the new administration's first military budget this amounts to six hundred eighty billion dollars thirty billion more than bush's last defense budget and almost equalling the seven hundred eighty seven billion dollars set aside by the new administration for the economic crisis stimulus package why despite the crisis does the military budget keep growing a crises and military expansion related in some way. when we have different presentations or sometimes bands that come or even though we have talent night if we have people that want to show off their talent we have a stage. we've done all sorts of things here from. halloween party there's christmas parties there's other events that happen here at the center as well you know they had they have salsa. in t

to really begin to be that much less safe to go back to pre nine eleven spending when the pentagon i mean it just seems like this is such an obvious thing why is it being not being more talked about both i think the secret is that the pentagon. the pentagon system you have the military industrial complex i'm outside she one of the most if that's one of the most successful policy of the economy that the government it's government spending companies spending money on on the military and it's economically very beneficial to the country it's one of the only sectors that actually works is it useful from a kind of a social welfare point of view to you know you know creating more more bombs that we don't need doesn't doesn't help kids get into school doesn't help fund health care programs for the o.t. so it's kind of completely useless from a from a from society's point of view but economically it's one of the only dynamic sectors left of the of the u.s. economy now when we're a military country it's hard to really cut what sells the most and quickly to our economy going exactly that was be

. >>> her brother was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the pentagon. she watched in and your as they fled through magazines and engage in prayer and >>> there in the courtroom and expect this is what they would do through the entirety of the trial. >>> this man's wife was a flight attendant and a plan that hit the pentagon. >>> everyone needs to go down to the pentagon memorial and go to grant 0 @ world trade center, go to shanksville, think about the price that was paid. >>> 11 years on these families wait for payback and keep vigil. >>> we are here for the long term we want justice for our families. >>> experts say it could be years before the case comes to trial. it could be prolonged by defendants' motions. and years more to resolve the appeal. >>> in the bay area home coming for a hero six months after a childhood friend and fellow marines killed in afghanistan, a young marine back from deployment. don knapp is in danville or the marine was thanked by a crowd. >>> dan ville gave lance corporal jordan torrance with a parade with harleys and fancy ca

his announcement came today at the pentagon. a recommendation and a plan sometime this summer and while he has stressed no decisions have been made, the general has suggested that ranger school may be the next logical step for women in the military. >> as many of you know earlier this week, more thachb 200 women began reporting to nine of our brigade combat teams. selected to participate in the exception to the direct ground combat assignment rule, additionally co-location as an assignment restriction is rescinded. this will result in the opening of six military occupational specialties and 80 units. more than 13,000 positions to women, opening up new opportunities to our female soldiers which make up about 16% of our force and allows to leverage the tremendous talent resonant in our ranks. as i have testified over the last several months, it's important for the army to execute the fiscal budget as planned. it reflects our highest priorities of the army in support of the new defense strategic guidance and allows the army to meet