SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESS SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFENSE JERRY LEWIS, California, Chairman C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking KEVIN M. ROPER, ALICIA JONES, GREGORY J. WALTERS, DOUG GREGORY, PAUL W. JUOLA, KRIS M. MALLARD, JOHN G. SHANK, and SARAH E. YOUNG, Staff Assistants PART 1 Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Army Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Page 1 205 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2004 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESS SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFENSE JERRY LEWIS, California, Chairman C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. KEVIN M. ROPER, ALICIA JONES, GREGORY J. WALTERS, DOUG GREGORY, PAUL W. JUOLA, KRIS M. MALLARD, JOHN G. SHANK, and SARAH E. YOUNG, Staff Assistants PART 1 Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Army Page 1 Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, and 205 345 481 Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS RALPH REGULA, Ohio C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida, Chairman JERRY LEWIS, California HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky JIM KOLBE, Arizona JAMES T. WALSH, New York CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma HENRY BONILLA, Texas JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM, California TODD TIAHRT, Kansas ZACH WAMP, Tennessee TOM LATHAM, Iowa ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania JOHN E. SWEENEY, New York JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina CHET EDWARDS, Texas ROBERT E. "BUD" CRAMER, JR., Alabama JAMES E. CLYBURN, South Carolina LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California JESSE L. JACKSON, JR., Illinois CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey JAMES W. DYER, Clerk and Staff Director DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2004 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2003. FISCAL YEAR 2004 ARMY POSTURE WITNESSES HON. THOMAS E. WHITE, SECRETARY OF THE ARMY GENERAL ERIC K. SHINSEKI, CHIEF OF STAFF, UNITED STATES ARMY INTRODUCTION Mr. LEWIS. The Committee will come to order. General, I think we will begin by apologizing to both you and the Secretary for the delay in starting the hearing. As you know, we lost some young soldiers overnight on a Black Hawk helicopter that went down. It is always painful when we lose our young people, and the members of the Committee want you to know that our hearts as well as our thoughts are with you and their families. General SHINSEKI. Thank you. Secretary WHITE. Thank you. Mr. LEWIS. This afternoon the Committee welcomes the Honorable Thomas E. White, the Secretary of the Army, and General Eric K. Shinseki, Chief of Staff of the Army, as we hold an open hearing on the posture and acquisition programs of the United States Army. Mr. Secretary, General, on behalf of the Committee I want to welcome each of you and thank you for your service in these very difficult times. I will come back to that in just a moment. Today, we meet to hear your testimony in support of the fiscal year 2004 budget request. I would note that this budget, and those that have preceded it in recent years, continue the path of change that you and your associates in Army leadership have embraced as the challenges of this new century have become steadily more apparent. It is not an understatement to say that your efforts to rethink the Army's organization of its forces; develop different and better equipment for a more agile and responsive Army; and, above all else, to hold true to the enduring importance of people, leadership and fielding an Army that fights as it trains, those basic tenets have been right on the mark in the view of this committee and at least from this member's perspective. We want you to know that we are deeply appreciative of the thought that has gone into this. I think your insistence on these priorities have been highly regarded and legitimately so in many a circle. In my view, as time goes on, they will be historically sig(1) |