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Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2017 and the Future Years Defense Program S. HRG. 114–658, PT. 6 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 AND THE FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 2943 TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 FOR MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, FOR MILITARY CON- STRUCTION, AND FOR DEFENSE ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, TO PRESCRIBE MILITARY PERSONNEL STRENGTHS FOR SUCH FISCAL YEAR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES PART 6 PERSONNEL MARCH 8, 2016 ( Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services VerDate Nov 24 2008 10:48 Oct 10, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 6011 Y:\REIER-AVILES\2016\2016 HEARINGS SENT FOR PRINTING\26938.TXT WILDA DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 AND THE FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM—Part 6 PERSONNEL VerDate Nov 24 2008 10:48 Oct 10, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 Y:\REIER-AVILES\2016\2016 HEARINGS SENT FOR PRINTING\26938.TXT WILDA S. HRG. 114–658, PT. 6 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 AND THE FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 2943 TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 FOR MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, FOR MILITARY CON- STRUCTION, AND FOR DEFENSE ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, TO PRESCRIBE MILITARY PERSONNEL STRENGTHS FOR SUCH FISCAL YEAR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES PART 6 PERSONNEL MARCH 8, 2016 Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.fdsys.gov/ U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 26–938 PDF WASHINGTON : 2017 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Nov 24 2008 10:48 Oct 10, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 Y:\REIER-AVILES\2016\2016 HEARINGS SENT FOR PRINTING\26938.TXT WILDA COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona, Chairman JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma JACK REED, Rhode Island JEFF SESSIONS, Alabama BILL NELSON, Florida ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi CLAIRE MCCASKILL, Missouri KELLY AYOTTE, New Hampshire JOE MANCHIN III, West Virginia DEB FISCHER, Nebraska JEANNE SHAHEEN, New Hampshire TOM COTTON, Arkansas KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND, New York MIKE ROUNDS, South Dakota RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, Connecticut JONI ERNST, Iowa JOE DONNELLY, Indiana THOM TILLIS, North Carolina MAZIE K. HIRONO, Hawaii DAN SULLIVAN, Alaska TIM KAINE, Virginia MIKE LEE, Utah ANGUS S. KING, JR., Maine LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico TED CRUZ, Texas CHRISTIAN D. BROSE, Staff Director ELIZABETH L. KING, Minority Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina, Chairman ROGER F. WICKER, MISSISSIPPI KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND, NEW YORK TOM COTTON, Arkansas CLAIRE MCCASKILL, Missouri THOM TILLIS, North Carolina RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, Connecticut DAN SULLIVAN, Alaska ANGUS S. KING, JR., Maine (II) VerDate Nov 24 2008 10:48 Oct 10, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 8486 Sfmt 8486 Y:\REIER-AVILES\2016\2016 HEARINGS SENT FOR PRINTING\26938.TXT WILDA C O N T E N T S MARCH 3, 2016 Page MILITARY PERSONNEL POSTURE .............................................................................. 1 McConville, Lieutenant General James C., USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, United States Army .......................................................................... 3 Moran, Vice Admiral William F., USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower, Personnel, Training, and Education, United States Navy ...... 8 Brilakis, Lieutenant General Mark A., USMC, Deputy Commandant for Man- power and Reserve Affairs, United States Marine Corps ................................. 15 Grosso, Lieutenant General Gina M., USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Man- power, Personnel, and Services, United States Air Force ................................ 23 Roth-Douquet, Kathy, Chief Executive Officer, Blue Star Families ................... 49 Raezer, Joyce W., Executive Director, National Military Family Association .... 57 Bousum, Scott, Legislative Director, The Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States ................................................................................. 80 Davis, Joseph E., Public Affairs Director, Veterans of Foreign Wars ................. 112 Questions for the Record ......................................................................................... 130 (III) VerDate Nov 24 2008 10:48 Oct 10, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 8486 Sfmt 8486 Y:\REIER-AVILES\2016\2016 HEARINGS SENT FOR PRINTING\26938.TXT WILDA VerDate Nov 24 2008 10:48 Oct 10, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 8486 Sfmt 8486 Y:\REIER-AVILES\2016\2016 HEARINGS SENT FOR PRINTING\26938.TXT WILDA DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 AND THE FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, DC. MILITARY PERSONNEL POSTURE The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:40 p.m. in Room SH-216, Hart Senate Office Building, Senator Lindsey O. Graham (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Subcommittee members present: Senators Graham, Wicker, Tillis, Sullivan, Gillibrand, Blumenthal, and King. OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR LINDSEY O. GRAHAM Senator GRAHAM. The committee meets this afternoon to review the military personnel defense authorization request for fiscal year 2017 and future years defense programs. We are fortunate to have two panels of distinguished witnesses joining us today. On the first panel, we have Lieutenant General McConville, Vice Admiral Moran, Lieutenant General Brilakis, and Lieutenant General Grasso. On the second panel, we have Ms. Kathy Douquet, Chief Executive Officer of Blue Star Families; Ms. Joyce Raezer, Executive Director of the National Military Family Association; Mr. Scott Bousum, Legislative Director of The Enlisted Association of the Nation Guard of the United States; Mr. Joseph Davis, Public Affairs Director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. As we consider this year’s military personnel defense authoriza- tion request, we must continue to ask ourselves what impact these authorizations and requested changes in policy will have on our servicemembers and their families. We must also balance that with the reality of sequestration and the need to preserve the readiness of our Armed Forces. This subcommittee is primarily concerned with modernizing the military health care system this year. As I have stated publicly many times, our goal is to reform the health care system to deliver higher-quality care, to improve access to high-quality providers, and to ensure a strong focus on combat casualty care. I hope that both panels of witnesses today will address military health care re- form. (1) VerDate Nov 24 2008 10:48 Oct 10, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 Y:\REIER-AVILES\2016\2016 HEARINGS SENT FOR PRINTING\26938.TXT WILDA 2 In the last year’s NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act], this committee, along with our House colleagues, acted upon rec- ommendations of the Independent Military Compensation and Re- tirement Modernization Commission. The reforms made will vastly expand the military retirement benefits to reach more of those who served. We owe it to those members to reward them for their serv- ice to this Nation. To this point, I find it particularly concerning that the Depart- ment of Defense has proposed legislation that would dramatically decrease the number of servicemembers who are eligible for the thrift savings plan contributions from the Government. It was an intentional choice by this committee to set eligibility to 2 years and 1 day of service. The Department came over last year and asked us to modify that by pushing the eligibility date further into a servicemember’s career. We unanimously rejected that call last year, and we will continue to reject requests from the Department of Defense that would delay Government contributions until 5 years of service. We believe that the new retirement system should benefit more servicemembers. Let me be clear. It is our commit- ment to the many servicemembers who go out on deployment be- fore reaching their fifth year of service that they too have earned some retirement. I am also concerned that the Department’s proposal that would continue to suppress military pay raises misses the mark. For the last 3 years, this administration has failed to allow servicemembers’ pay to keep up with the private sector wage growth. This is the fourth year in a row where the Department is shortchanging servicemembers. The personnel budget came over to us as neutral. This means that savings the Department took from giving a lower pay raise and delaying Government retirement con- tributions went to other benefits within the personnel budget. This money did not go to readiness. Instead, this money went to pay the costly fringe benefits as part of the focus of the future. To all the witnesses, I hope today you will tell us what we can do to make your job more efficient, better serve those under your care, and find a way to make health care not only of a higher qual- ity but sustainable in terms of cost. With that, I will turn it over to the ranking member, Senator Gillibrand. STATEMENT OF SENATOR KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND Senator GILLIBRAND. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I join with you today in welcoming our witnesses to review the Department’s fiscal year 2017 budget request. As we begin our review of DOD’s [Department of Defense’s] budget and programs, I applaud the Department’s progress in opening all service positions, including combat positions, to women. I believe this change will strengthen our military over time because it will provide access to the full spectrum of talent available for military service by allowing anyone, man or woman, who can meet the standard for service to compete for those positions.
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