Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005, Vol. 3: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services United States ... Congress Second Session (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005, Vol. 3: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services United States Senate One Hundred Eighth Congress Second SessionOur commitment to improve current and future readiness is steadfast, even when this entails making tough choices, such as canceling the Comanche aircraft program. Now, we can talk about it in the questions and answers, but we need the committee's sup port to retain the Comanche resources to fix Army aviation.The 2005 President's budget will enable our Army to provide our combatant commanders with the requisite land-power capabilities for the global war on terrorism, homeland defense, and other worldwide commitments. It covers our baseline operations, the 15 critical systems in our recapitalization program, and our trans formation program. It does not address the ongoing missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the recovery from those missions.Your support of this budget and war-related costs of our ongoing operations is critical if our units are to continue their remarkable performance and remain ready for future contingencies.We appreciate your dedication to your military and to America's sons and daughters, who are Operating selflessly around the world defending this great country.Thank you, Senator, for the opportunity. I look forward to taking your questions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.