NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE COMPONENT …

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2 LOBIONDO, New Jersey JOHN C. FLEMING, , Louisiana TOM ROONEY, Florida TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri JON RUNYAN, New Jersey MARTHA ROBY, Alabama WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina W. TODD AKIN, Missouri JOE WILSON, South Carolina MICHAEL TURNER, Ohio BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado SILVESTRE REYES, Texas MIKE MCINTYRE, North Carolina JIM COOPER, Tennessee GABRIELLE GIFFORDS, Arizona NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts LARRY KISSELL, North Carolina MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico BILL OWENS, New York JOHN R. GARAMENDI, California MARK S. CRITZ, Pennsylvania KATHLEEN C.

3 HOCHUL, New York JESSETOLLESON, Professional Staff Member DOUGBUSH, Professional Staff Member SCOTTBOUSUM, Staff Assistant (III) C O N T E N T S CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HEARINGS 2011 Page HEARING: Wednesday, October 12, 2011, NATIONAL GUARD and RESERVE COMPONENT Acqui-sition and Modernization ..1 APPENDIX: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 ..31 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011 NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE COMPONENT ACQUISITION AND MODERNIZATION STATEMENTS PRESENTED BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Bartlett, Hon. Roscoe G., a Representative from Maryland, Chairman, Sub-committee on Tactical Air and Land Forces ..1 Reyes, Hon. Silvestre, a Representative from Texas, Ranking Member, Sub-committee on Tactical Air and Land Forces.

4 3 WITNESSES Carpenter, MG Raymond W., USA, Acting Director, Army NATIONAL GUARD ..7 Stenner, Lt. Gen. Charles E., Jr., USAF, Chief, Air Force RESERVE ..11 Stultz, LTG Jack C., USA, Chief, Army RESERVE ..4 Wyatt, Lt. Gen. Harry M., III, USAF, Director, Air NATIONAL GUARD ..9 APPENDIX PREPAREDSTATEMENTS: Bartlett, Hon. Roscoe G..35 Carpenter, MG Raymond W..72 Reyes, Hon. Silvestre ..38 Stenner, Lt. Gen. Charles E., Jr.. 105 Stultz, LTG Jack C..40 Wyatt, Lt. Gen. Harry M., III ..97 DOCUMENTSSUBMITTED FOR THERECORD: Chart of Army RESERVE : Indispensable Capabilities of the Operational Force, Submitted by LTG Jack C. Stultz .. 117 Dip Chart Showing Army RESERVE End Strength, Fiscal Years 2002 through 2011, Submitted by LTG Jack C.

5 Stultz .. 118 WITNESSRESPONSES TOQUESTIONSASKEDDURING THEHEARING: [There were no Questions submitted during the hearing.] QUESTIONSSUBMITTED BYMEMBERSPOSTHEARING: Mr. Bartlett .. 121 Mrs. Roby .. 129 (1) NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE COMPONENT ACQUISITION AND MODERNIZATION HOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ONARMEDSERVICES, SUBCOMMITTEE ONTACTICALAIR ANDLANDFORCES, Washington, DC, Wednesday, October 12, 2011. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 2:00 in room 2212, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Roscoe G. Bartlett (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, A REP-RESENTATIVE FROM MARYLAND, CHAIRMAN, SUB-COMMITTEE ON TACTICAL AIR AND LAND FORCES Mr.

6 BARTLETT. Our subcommittee will come to order. Today, the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee meets to receive an update on the equipment status and requirements of the Army and Air Force NATIONAL GUARD and RESERVE Components. Given the significant change in the budget outlook for fiscal year 2012 and beyond, we believe it necessary to obtain the current views of the GUARD and RESERVE senior leaders for the potential im-pact on their programs. We will also hear from the military serv-ices in two subsequent hearings later in the month. We welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses: Major General Raymond Carpenter, the Acting Deputy Director of the Army Na-tional GUARD ; Lieutenant General Harry Wyatt, Director of the Air NATIONAL GUARD ; Lieutenant General Jack Stultz, Chief, Army RESERVE ; and Lieutenant General Charles Stenner, Jr.

7 , Chief, Air Force Reserves. Major reductions in the Federal budget need to be an element of correcting the Federal deficit. The Department of Defense must share in a fair and balanced way in those reductions. That process is already taking place under the Budget Control Act of 2011, with nearly $500 billion in cuts planned for DOD [Department of De-fense] over the next 10 years. However, cuts beyond that, up to ap-proximately $1 trillion over 10 years, are possible under what Sec-retary Panetta called the doomsday mechanism sequestration provision of the Budget Control Act. Secretary Panetta and Director Lew of the white House Office of Management and Budget have stated that budget cuts to the De-partment of Defense as a result of the sequestration provision could impose a significant risk to NATIONAL security.

8 DOD would most certainly be forced to furlough large numbers of civilian work-ers. Training would have to be curtailed, the force reduced, and purchases of weapons systems would have to be cut dramatically. 2 Former Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn recently stat-ed that the imposition of the sequestration provision of the Budget Control Act on our Armed Forces could be catastrophic. Sequestra-tion would give us the smallest Army and Marine Corps in decades, the smallest Air Force in history, and the smallest Navy since McKinley was President. The debate is not whether sequestration would wound our military; it is about whether sequestration is equivalent to shooting ourselves in the foot or the head.

9 Against the backdrop of the Budget Control Act for 2011, today s hearing is to get an assessment of the modernization needs and equipping challenges of the Army NATIONAL GUARD , Air NATIONAL GUARD , Army RESERVE , and Air Force RESERVE . We recognize the De-partment is making major improvements and progress in providing adequate funding to equip the NATIONAL GUARD and RESERVE Compo-nents to enhance its role as an operational RESERVE . Sustaining this funding, however, will continue to be a major issue, given the acute NATIONAL economic challenges we currently face. During the April hearing, the subcommittee learned the impor-tance of equipping and resourcing the RESERVE COMPONENT as an operational RESERVE rather than the Cold War model of a strategic RESERVE .

10 We also heard our witnesses testify that, since 2001, the Department has made significant strides in providing adequate re-sources to equip the RESERVE COMPONENT as an operational RESERVE . The GUARD and RESERVE Components have proven to be an in-valuable asset during Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn. These past 10 years have justified the need for an operational RESERVE COMPONENT force that must be adequately manned, trained, and equipped. Since September of 2001, almost 600,000 guardsmen and reserv-ists have deployed in support of combat operations, representing 40 percent of the total RESERVE force of million troops.