WEBVTT 00:17.500 --> 00:20.840 Gray day in in Minnesota on. 00:21.860 --> 00:25.650 Both from my standpoint of life learning more about the Minnesota 00:25.650 --> 00:26.450 national guard. 00:27.160 --> 00:31.320 But also the up three this you can swiftly are far to soldiers 00:31.320 --> 00:34.450 of a few mobilized for a fact from a. 00:35.100 --> 00:38.860 Iraq splitting time with them need lunch for them to to share 00:38.860 --> 00:43.110 some of their stories because the PC of the grass father thinking 00:43.110 --> 00:45.860 about about the their missions. 00:46.780 --> 00:50.990 You get a chance to spill over the time which and oversee a great 00:50.990 --> 00:53.980 hero and a tremendous americans somebody who'll. 00:54.770 --> 00:59.420 Who has a lot to to to give us in terms of experience because 00:59.420 --> 01:01.330 as he'd led the army through various. 01:01.890 --> 01:06.030 Your us a week we we see a some of the same things affecting 01:06.030 --> 01:06.990 us today although. 01:07.620 --> 01:10.740 As society a strange source of vicious. So I'm great bay and 01:10.740 --> 01:14.700 Minnesota great great the opportunity to participate in the soldier's 01:14.700 --> 01:17.670 medal to give the soldiers of the soldiers. 01:18.840 --> 01:22.210 This has tremendous honor an honor for me an honor for our country 01:22.690 --> 01:25.930 to have these great men and women of serving our country. 01:25.930 --> 01:28.480 So just a fantastic day and night. 01:29.310 --> 01:32.600 To top it off I get far too aggressive and even a more fantastic 01:32.600 --> 01:33.320 up a clinic. 01:34.230 --> 01:37.760 So thank you. Thank you for four on the power new spending here 01:37.760 --> 01:41.440 today and I'm open up to questions. Of. 01:45.720 --> 01:51.980 Ideas so this would be far will also and listens to here on. 01:52.630 --> 01:54.670 Always use words like this. Year. 01:57.000 --> 02:00.390 Well I have to hang in our soldiers is one of my. 02:01.410 --> 02:03.790 Real great pleasures because our. 02:04.910 --> 02:09.570 You've you've you've fuel aerosols subtleties of that soldiers 02:09.570 --> 02:11.360 are feeling from. 02:11.870 --> 02:14.920 Summer decisions we make in washington and so you get to get 02:14.920 --> 02:19.110 a sense if you put it all together it's sort of like a puzzle 02:19.240 --> 02:22.870 in the this is just one piece in that puzzle here ripley. 02:23.790 --> 02:26.680 But you get to put those pieces together and eventually you get 02:26.680 --> 02:31.160 to have of a of a better sense of where lisa seizures are taking 02:31.160 --> 02:32.290 you other than the fact. 02:33.180 --> 02:36.890 A both are a readiness and our ability. To. 02:39.600 --> 02:40.940 Shape the force in the future. 02:42.000 --> 02:46.610 Well I gay and I enjoy the seeing of the different aspects of 02:46.610 --> 02:50.170 our army army is is large and complex. 02:51.070 --> 02:55.490 And the most people don't have a really good sense of of what 02:55.680 --> 02:58.340 how we've made up of Clifford for us as leaders. 02:59.050 --> 03:02.340 To understand the various components what they would they bring 03:02.340 --> 03:05.940 to the fight power the train other organized twitter leadership 03:05.940 --> 03:06.430 of like. 03:06.950 --> 03:08.160 So this is very. Important. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.520 The two that. 03:16.040 --> 03:24.080 They're over here is one the Of bunk beds and Of the things we. 03:24.840 --> 03:31.240 Can you have to you know the Car you see these components the 03:31.240 --> 03:32.410 merging of all. 03:33.130 --> 03:38.200 The view of the an. Yeah that's a really good thing. That's that's 03:38.200 --> 03:40.460 the heart of the question there were all trying to. 03:41.440 --> 03:44.580 To to address these very days are. 03:45.210 --> 03:47.090 In in the senior leadership of the army. 03:47.810 --> 03:52.430 On. All those conditions you named are are going to affect us. 03:52.430 --> 03:57.350 So we've got a plan for drawing down the act of a it's a two 03:57.380 --> 03:59.700 to four hundred ninety thousand by seventy. 04:01.300 --> 04:06.630 In rela rent that does that mom and we have a small small decline. 04:07.130 --> 04:08.710 In the reserve component. 04:09.820 --> 04:13.670 The the larger picture of the larger question will be what will happen. 04:13.670 --> 04:17.130 If we have something as dramatic as drastic as the. Frustration. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.380 A to the size of our force structure. 04:21.940 --> 04:25.950 And will will happen. If we just half initial budget cuts but 04:25.950 --> 04:29.540 maybe not to the level of one seek restoration will agree in 04:29.540 --> 04:30.880 either case will leave. 04:31.580 --> 04:36.810 We're preparing for a you know some measure of budget reduction 04:36.810 --> 04:39.290 in the future. There will affect all services. 04:40.000 --> 04:44.620 And we're having to do two things. One is addressed our ability 04:44.620 --> 04:47.560 to provide a train of really force in those times. 04:48.580 --> 04:52.960 Power as well as align ourselves to the new strategy which the 04:52.960 --> 04:54.280 president has laid out. 04:55.080 --> 04:58.680 Which is is rebalancing more from asia pacific theatre would 04:58.680 --> 05:01.610 still quite a bit of attention to the fed cup here. 05:02.820 --> 05:05.370 All that means that of. 05:05.890 --> 05:09.700 We're we're going to have to bring some for structure reductions 05:09.910 --> 05:10.870 into the mix. 05:12.030 --> 05:16.500 In darn in so we're looking at from what's the best way to do 05:16.500 --> 05:21.470 that what's the the timing of that how does that affect our readiness. 05:22.080 --> 05:25.310 How much more do we need to take out of the active an out of 05:25.310 --> 05:26.480 the reserve component. 05:27.170 --> 05:30.490 How do we do that as we shape the force of twenty twenty of the 05:30.490 --> 05:31.800 allied to new missions. 05:33.320 --> 05:36.620 Also for example on the reserve components cited three critical 05:36.620 --> 05:40.390 that we keep their enabler. I'll keep capability because we're 05:40.390 --> 05:41.810 gonna be aligning forces. 05:42.800 --> 05:46.890 The combatant commands more so than ever before and so were of 05:46.920 --> 05:50.470 we're going to rely more on on that capability. So it's important 05:50.470 --> 05:50.910 that we. 05:52.260 --> 05:52.890 We're going. 05:53.600 --> 05:57.190 To to shape that into the future. So we have a lot of decisions pending. 05:57.870 --> 06:00.900 But as you know is is this experiences you are a mister. 06:01.890 --> 06:06.060 Where the point where we just before an election we just before. 06:06.700 --> 06:13.290 Our To your before the end of the the calendar year and a calendar 06:13.290 --> 06:14.370 year in this case. 06:15.040 --> 06:17.630 You know released jen you foresee construction would have to 06:17.630 --> 06:20.160 take place if nothing is done between now and then. 06:21.500 --> 06:25.470 I think there's a possibility as we hear that they might do. 06:26.140 --> 06:29.390 Our force policy frustration for a few months which means that 06:29.390 --> 06:30.800 they would line up with of. 06:31.920 --> 06:36.300 The Thick of the the current to a resolution that the just passed 06:36.370 --> 06:41.890 the The concurrent was I mean the The sea are. 06:42.700 --> 06:46.240 Solve almost things happen at once it's like the perfect storm. 06:46.240 --> 06:50.820 I mean you know we would have a fairly dramatic cuts across all services. 06:51.500 --> 06:54.330 And we'd have to do them very quickly and as you know we. 06:55.030 --> 06:58.800 We Kiev who we can't turn this big ship called offensive with of. 06:59.330 --> 07:03.260 Plus the wrist of inputs is in terms of doing making mistakes 07:03.260 --> 07:04.710 and incurring the wrong things. 07:05.330 --> 07:09.240 So we're hoping that that that congress we'll we'll we'll we'll 07:09.240 --> 07:10.750 we'll answer this question so. 07:11.390 --> 07:13.900 That will have some stability in our budget and there will be 07:13.900 --> 07:16.780 able to go ahead. And do some planning and mark rational fashion 07:16.780 --> 07:17.080 and we. 07:17.740 --> 07:20.390 Have Kearney footage of human condition worsened. 07:21.580 --> 07:24.440 We were great for us we have a great resiliency in our and our 07:24.440 --> 07:26.060 commanders and our and our people. 07:26.730 --> 07:30.620 Of the resolution trying to find a way through this. Oh we oh 07:30.650 --> 07:34.650 we have probably the most experience of cable will forces countries 07:34.650 --> 07:35.150 are had. 07:36.050 --> 07:39.450 Are. We are a new army of different army. 07:40.430 --> 07:43.200 And we're shaping a force for the future that would be. 07:43.720 --> 07:47.070 Very Quick connections and and dar. 07:48.190 --> 07:51.880 Of very capable five so we're we're poised to do that that's 07:51.880 --> 07:54.450 for we'd like to be planning rather than worrying about. 07:55.950 --> 07:57.410 All these other things we have to work. That. 08:00.160 --> 08:02.780 The early years of war as. The 08:04.890 --> 08:05.350 The mission. 08:06.030 --> 08:12.980 All the war where there is there to an or of pension from. 08:13.360 --> 08:19.000 Yeah I well you know it's it's amazing because who we have. 08:19.750 --> 08:22.100 Our soldiers are finding that are. 08:23.240 --> 08:27.490 There are skill levels severe their potential is being realized 08:27.490 --> 08:31.300 in this force in ways that they never afford could that happen 08:31.300 --> 08:31.960 in the past. 08:32.700 --> 08:35.540 So what I go troll or other countries for just pour one only 08:35.540 --> 08:39.410 the army the one standing on and and in folks wanna come is to 08:39.410 --> 08:39.720 be our. 08:40.880 --> 08:45.290 File we are we we're taking care of families in ways. We never 08:45.430 --> 08:47.100 been able to take your them in the past. 08:48.390 --> 08:52.760 We're very resolute in their harmful right. Great attention to 08:52.760 --> 08:56.410 the issues that affect our soldiers of these deployments or. 08:57.540 --> 09:01.540 We're all tired of ten years of war on and we're doing everything 09:01.540 --> 09:04.630 we can to give our soldiers work time between deployments to 09:04.630 --> 09:08.660 give a self the opportunity to reset and to get better. 09:09.500 --> 09:13.420 We're really focused on these issues as you know assess suicide 09:13.420 --> 09:18.110 and and Traumatic brain injury in peak years the can always call 09:18.110 --> 09:20.410 the issues that affect have affected our Fortress when these 09:20.410 --> 09:22.250 deployments were very focused on that. 09:23.240 --> 09:27.730 On but we understand that that there is a and anxiety with a 09:27.770 --> 09:30.440 with these long deployments for for so long and so. 09:30.960 --> 09:34.480 We're looking forward to bringing our forces back to be able to. 09:35.140 --> 09:38.800 To reset and to train and to train for the army or the future. 09:40.030 --> 09:45.420 A two to reset just for some real liners for us with new missions 09:45.480 --> 09:46.910 new opportunities for. 09:48.760 --> 09:52.270 The only thing I like to add to all that on that people don't 09:52.270 --> 09:54.730 think about is what else is on the brink. So the country. 09:56.120 --> 09:59.770 So if you think about all the areas of the army's vodka medicine.. Engineering. 10:00.280 --> 10:07.680 Engineering. Quote but two examples from many others were we 10:07.680 --> 10:10.720 make great contributions to the country. You know both in terms 10:10.720 --> 10:12.060 of disaster relief of. 10:12.600 --> 10:17.140 And a of the corps of engineers building are our nation's infrastructure. 10:18.190 --> 10:21.920 The medical advances that we have we real more patents than almost 10:21.920 --> 10:23.430 anybody else medical feel. 10:24.500 --> 10:28.120 On the advances that we've made a science of technology and research 10:28.120 --> 10:30.640 and development helped the private sector. 10:31.280 --> 10:34.960 Are. A commercial as much of their technology. 10:35.500 --> 10:39.410 The super things the army does on a routine basis and they are 10:39.490 --> 10:42.340 great condition for countries economic the vile. 10:43.370 --> 10:47.440 So our forces not just deployed and finally files overseas of 10:47.440 --> 10:51.050 rowrah forced most of our force is engaged every day. 10:51.650 --> 10:55.460 And supporting various aspects of or U.S. have international economy. 10:56.690 --> 11:00.900 We have a hundred and five free over the exact number of army 11:00.900 --> 11:02.280 soldiers will deploy today. 11:03.240 --> 11:03.940 Around the world. 11:04.700 --> 11:06.230 Was that that number doesn't. It. 11:09.600 --> 11:11.450 I think it's somewhere around a hundred in. 11:12.910 --> 11:15.960 In fact it's or under fifty thousand soldiers are deployed. 11:16.500 --> 11:19.940 And around the world. We have the sixty thousand. 11:20.550 --> 11:22.240 Most in in Afghanistan today. 11:23.530 --> 11:27.330 They end up those soldiers are are are doing incredible work 11:27.330 --> 11:30.290 whether it's engineering projects and one part of the world whether 11:30.290 --> 11:36.330 it's working with African armies and in their training and development. Professionalism. 11:37.800 --> 11:41.600 We hope that these activities that we do is an army that help 11:41.600 --> 11:45.250 stimulate trade help civilian economic opportunity for countries 11:45.430 --> 11:47.570 help stabilize governments. 11:48.420 --> 11:50.730 Will keepers of peace rather than war. 11:52.340 --> 11:54.460 On. The in and can. 11:55.110 --> 11:58.180 That's where we think we we do the most the most good for the 11:58.180 --> 11:58.860 country in the. World. 12:01.690 --> 12:04.360 And speaking very long year on fire but that is they're trying 12:04.360 --> 12:07.820 to produce quick quick is. Herself. 12:11.890 --> 12:15.110 Yeah it's just a few too. 12:15.730 --> 12:17.080 Slow growth of. Things. 12:19.570 --> 12:24.200 Asian brunette here because you were a few people of. 12:25.220 --> 12:28.930 If it did you know it is amazing I. 12:30.560 --> 12:32.120 Because what they did. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.760 I'll put in their lives on the line. 12:35.740 --> 12:39.190 For total strangers on a foreign country. 12:39.790 --> 12:43.460 A country there we've been fighting in and we'll and and food 12:43.460 --> 12:46.150 for the last ten years putting their lives every ask. 12:47.190 --> 12:51.140 Is a just to them the acting quickly like that's gonna be justly. 12:51.890 --> 12:57.240 The are sort of a natural reaction the can only come from people 12:57.240 --> 12:59.650 whose values and. Norms. 13:02.170 --> 13:05.220 And training have been such a there that. 13:06.000 --> 13:10.940 Poem they're willing to do that and car it that says a lot about 13:10.940 --> 13:11.590 our country. 13:13.210 --> 13:16.620 In addition to what it says about those those three individual soldiers. 13:17.330 --> 13:21.240 And then every other soldier who puts a uniform on and gets deployed 13:21.240 --> 13:22.660 to iraq in gets. To. 13:26.600 --> 13:28.650 You know me guard these are. 13:29.500 --> 13:31.180 These convoys on. 13:32.000 --> 13:35.940 And gets shot that indian the in suffers the possibilities of 13:35.940 --> 13:40.040 ladies everyone will for just a dead rationally decided to add 13:40.040 --> 13:41.590 to the army and can do that. 13:42.240 --> 13:44.600 And again that's peace alive for a country that we're willing 13:44.600 --> 13:46.580 to do that before we were mike there. 13:48.000 --> 13:51.070 And so it's it's a great honor for me to be in the same room 13:51.070 --> 13:54.200 with them and to be able to recognize with a detective recognize 13:54.200 --> 13:55.600 fifty others for dissonance. 13:56.150 --> 13:58.890 Brigade that this is just a to a tremendous honor. 14:01.160 --> 14:03.140 Any other part of it is that you know that. 14:03.790 --> 14:05.780 There are citizen soldiers. 14:07.110 --> 14:10.710 There there are people who have other lives other professional 14:11.090 --> 14:13.030 careers and opportunities out there. 14:14.030 --> 14:15.980 Some are single summer married but. 14:16.940 --> 14:18.010 They don't have to do this. 14:18.610 --> 14:24.000 Far. And and yet they're willing to to make that sacrifice of. 14:24.670 --> 14:27.680 Greener uniform on taking some time away from their families 14:27.680 --> 14:28.590 and their jobs. 14:29.670 --> 14:31.650 And we need to find ways to make that. 14:32.160 --> 14:32.820 Better for the 14:34.630 --> 14:37.280 Injure or national astronomy earlier today about the efforts 14:37.280 --> 14:41.380 he's making here in Minnesota to find employment for our soldiers 14:41.380 --> 14:43.840 will come back from deployment sabina have jobs. 14:44.630 --> 14:47.670 And the success that he's hopefully me without we go to war that 14:47.670 --> 14:50.650 around the country and make sure that our vets can employ a picture 14:50.680 --> 14:52.290 of soldiers how to bring up their. 14:53.030 --> 14:55.870 And in case the American people that there. 14:56.660 --> 15:00.160 By that they deserve that that they handed in their we are all 15:00.160 --> 15:03.650 located that five to help make a Think the best of their lives 15:03.650 --> 15:04.190 in the future. 15:05.560 --> 15:09.740 Doing that will get more soldiers to joining the the army in 15:09.740 --> 15:13.440 the future will get better soldiers every time. We do that will 15:13.440 --> 15:18.210 improve our forces and will generate a new generation of americans will. 15:18.790 --> 15:21.010 Welcome to the founders country to the of march. 15:22.530 --> 15:23.660 Surgery was always. 15:24.220 --> 15:27.000 Your causing figure produce made a. Difference. 15:29.360 --> 15:32.830 Running vehicles income as anything else that's on top you have 15:32.830 --> 15:33.610 that you'd like to know. 15:34.350 --> 15:35.540 About here is. 15:36.460 --> 15:41.710 It I was really a really impressed when I E I think it's a good idea. 15:41.710 --> 15:45.460 I have for all that our mind to it that some of the training 15:45.460 --> 15:46.430 the ranges and areas. 15:47.000 --> 15:52.180 But our But it's it's of it's a really large and ample place 15:52.180 --> 15:56.040 a good place to train on its its world world taking care of. 15:56.580 --> 15:58.890 What's gonna great history on. 15:59.410 --> 16:01.490 So i've I'm very impressed with an idea. 16:02.200 --> 16:06.530 You know I again to a for some of the points I made earlier. 16:07.660 --> 16:11.640 We've got to know better what our reserve component army. 16:12.230 --> 16:15.790 National guard and reserves bring tune through. 16:16.750 --> 16:20.730 Other nations force in how we can integrated better. I'll continue 16:20.730 --> 16:22.950 to integrate better when cut understand that there. 16:24.350 --> 16:29.330 And I was telling a earlier if you look at a map of the United States. 16:31.030 --> 16:32.000 A new well. 16:33.210 --> 16:37.270 You look you look at the the you divide if you put a line across 16:37.270 --> 16:38.180 the middle of the country. 16:39.780 --> 16:43.660 Of the active army is highly concentrated in the southeast. 16:44.310 --> 16:49.110 Here and With some in texas and of course and and and the south 16:49.110 --> 16:49.960 west of it. 16:51.050 --> 16:54.780 Bomb and we have one installation in california and the desert 16:54.890 --> 16:55.900 the national training center. 16:57.450 --> 17:00.660 But if you look at the north we've only got to install a active 17:00.660 --> 17:05.160 army installations for drum we up state new york and Fort Lewis 17:05.320 --> 17:09.700 in washington on little the overseas viscose and in the middle. 17:10.830 --> 17:12.910 What we have is the gardens reserve. 17:14.500 --> 17:16.150 And it's usually important to us. 17:16.810 --> 17:18.210 To have their presence. 17:18.760 --> 17:21.050 There have america's understanding where army does. 17:22.050 --> 17:25.580 To have that that integration of because that's we're vast population 17:25.580 --> 17:29.570 centers are illinois union all hi-yo Pennsylvania. These are 17:29.570 --> 17:32.250 States where we don't have an active military prowess. 17:33.370 --> 17:36.630 And so people don't go up around soldiers until glover a military 17:36.630 --> 17:39.750 base of this is what they've this is what they don't sign. 17:40.790 --> 17:43.980 As they can see the good things that are going on here the kinds 17:43.980 --> 17:47.160 of soldiers are so in a country from here in the reserve. 17:47.760 --> 17:51.140 You'll be more support there'll be more understanding of or the 17:51.140 --> 17:52.920 thousand natural food world. 17:53.640 --> 17:56.520 A and the high level of ethics and values that we bring. 17:57.150 --> 17:57.710 Every day. 17:58.230 --> 18:00.850 For the lives of of people around us all. 18:01.500 --> 18:04.430 I think it's important for us to see this and to understand the power..