DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2013 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFENSE C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida, Chairman JERRY LEWIS, California NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana JACK KINGSTON, Georgia JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia KAY GRANGER, Texas MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey KEN CALVERT, California MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York JO BONNER, Alabama TOM COLE, Oklahoma NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Rogers, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Dicks, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. TOM MCLEMORE, JENNIFER MILLER, PAUL TERRY, WALTER HEARNE, ANN REESE, TIM PRINCE, BROOKE BOYER, B G WRIGHT, ADRIENNE RAMSAY, and MEGAN MILAM ROSENBUSCH, Staff Assistants SHERRY L. YOUNG, Administrative Aide PART 2 Page Fiscal Year 2013 Army Budget Overview .......................... 1 Defense Health Program ....................................................... 137 Fiscal Year 2013 National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve Budget Overview .................................................. 333 U.S. Pacific Command / U.S. Forces Korea ........................ 451 Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization .......................................................................... 497 Outside Witness Statements ................................................. 545 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 79–874 WASHINGTON : 2013 wreier-aviles on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with HEARING VerDate Mar 15 2010 10:21 Apr 09, 2013 Jkt 079874 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 7513 Sfmt 7513 E:\HR\OC\79874P1.XXX 79874P1 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky, Chairman C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida 1 NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington JERRY LEWIS, California 1 MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana JACK KINGSTON, Georgia NITA M. LOWEY, New York RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey JOSE´ E. SERRANO, New York TOM LATHAM, Iowa ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts KAY GRANGER, Texas ED PASTOR, Arizona MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California DENNY REHBERG, Montana SAM FARR, California JOHN R. CARTER, Texas JESSE L. JACKSON, JR., Illinois RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania KEN CALVERT, California STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey JO BONNER, Alabama SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR., Georgia STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio BARBARA LEE, California TOM COLE, Oklahoma ADAM B. SCHIFF, California JEFF FLAKE, Arizona MICHAEL M. HONDA, California MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania STEVE AUSTRIA, Ohio CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming TOM GRAVES, Georgia KEVIN YODER, Kansas STEVE WOMACK, Arkansas ALAN NUNNELEE, Mississippi ————— 1 Chairman Emeritus WILLIAM B. INGLEE, Clerk and Staff Director (II) wreier-aviles on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with HEARING VerDate Mar 15 2010 10:21 Apr 09, 2013 Jkt 079874 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 7513 Sfmt 7513 E:\HR\OC\79874P1.XXX 79874P1 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2013 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012. FY2013 ARMY BUDGET OVERVIEW WITNESSES HON. JOHN M. MCHUGH, SECRETARY OF THE ARMY GENERAL RAYMOND T. ODIERNO, CHIEF OF STAFF, UNITED STATES ARMY OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN YOUNG Mr. YOUNG. Good morning. The Committee will be in order. This morning the Committee is holding a hearing on the budget for the United States Army for fiscal year 2013. We will be discussing per- sonnel matters, current operations and readiness, research and de- velopment and procurement, along with any other subject that our witnesses prefer to raise or that the members prefer to ask about. And we are very happy to welcome our distinguished witnesses, the Honorable John McHugh, Secretary of the Army, and General Raymond T. Odierno, Chief of Staff of the Army. And of course John McHugh has been one of our colleagues for many, many years, former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and a colleague that we are very proud of, Mr. Secretary. And General, we are very, very happy to have you here. Your biography will be placed in the record, which is an extremely, extremely impressive biography. It will be placed in our record. Mr. Secretary, you have appeared several times before this sub- committee as Secretary of the Army. We welcome you back, as you are a veteran of the budget process and you bring to these pro- ceedings a wealth of experience based on your service in the House of Representatives and your ongoing service as Secretary of the Army. Representing the people of New York’s 23rd and 24th Dis- tricts, you served as ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee and you served on the Oversight and Government Re- form Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and that is quite a background. You are highly re- spected in the area of military affairs, and we are pleased that you are here today to discuss the Army budget request for fiscal year 2013. General, 38th Chief of Staff of the United States Army, welcome to you, sir. We note that you are a New Jersey native, as is one of our ranking members, who will be here shortly, that you are a West Point graduate and you are one of a very small company of officers who have commanded at division, corps and Army levels in (1) erowe on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with HEARING VerDate Mar 15 2010 11:44 Apr 09, 2013 Jkt 079874 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 E:\HR\OC\A874P2.XXX A874P2 2 the same conflict. Quite a history and quite a record. And while serving in positions other than command, you were an assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and military advisor to Secretary of State Rice. You bring with you experience gained in three tours in Iraq, initially as commanding general 4th Infantry Division and culminating as Commander of the Multi-National Force Iraq and senior U.S. Military commander in Iraq. Impres- sive. At present you are guiding the Army through a ramping down of actions in Afghanistan and a shifting focus to the Asia-Pacific. Your assessment of the status of personnel, equipment and train- ing readiness will be of great assistance to this committee as we consider how to best allocate resources so that the Army might ac- complish its mission in defense of our Nation. OPERATIONS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN Mr. Secretary and General, salute you and the men and women, officers and enlisted soldiers, family members and civilian employ- ees that you represent. For the past decade the Army has carried a heavy load in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite multiple extended combat tours many soldiers and their families have continued to serve in the Army. They are proud of what they have done, as they should be, and what they continue to do for the Nation. ARMY END STRENGTH REDUCTION Although operations are ramping down in Afghanistan, we hope that they will be successful. Deployments do continue. Meanwhile the Secretary of Defense has announced that while the United States will continue an active approach to countering the threat posed by violent extremists, the focus of national defense will be balanced toward the Asia-Pacific region. A significant reduction in Army end strength is planned, yet the Army is expected to main- tain the capability to regenerate ground forces as necessary. ARMY READINESS Mr. Secretary, General, reversibility sounds great, but this com- mittee will want to hear how you ensure the Army when called to action can provide the needed units fully manned, equipped and trained. The 32nd Chief of Staff of the Army, General Gordon Sul- livan, frequently noted that hope is not a method. This Committee will continue to support an Army that is properly equipped, prop- erly supplied, and fully trained. The Committee will guard against a hollow Army, and we would like to hear your assessment of where you propose to accept risk in soldier end strength, training, equipment, readiness and modernization. SUICIDE AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION We will be interested in your plan to downsize the Army and pro- grams to prevent, important programs to prevent suicide and sex- ual harassment. Fiscal management and the frequency and mag- nitude of reprogramming requests are likely topics of discussion, as they were considerably last year. And we will be interested in your updates on key acquisition programs, including Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, Ground Combat Vehicle, Armed Aerial Scout, Abrams tank erowe on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with HEARING VerDate Mar 15 2010 11:44 Apr 09, 2013 Jkt 079874 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\A874P2.XXX A874P2 3 and Paladin self-propelled Howitzer. We are interested as well in the performance of the Stryker vehicles that have the double V hull. NETWORK INTEGRATION EVALUATIONS (NIE) Finally, the Army has initiated a series of network integration evaluations at Fort Bliss in Texas. We will be interested to hear how that process is working and how the findings and rec- ommendations are used to inform acquisition programs. Mr. Secretary and General, we have an ambitious agenda this morning. We want to get started. But before we proceed I am going to complete my remarks. I should have just put them in the record, because what I said about all of you, you already know. Anyway, before we proceed I want to recognize Mr. Dicks, the former chair- man of the subcommittee and ranking member on the Full Com- mittee. Chairman Dicks. REMARKS OF MR. DICKS Mr. DICKS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In welcoming both Sec- retary McHugh and General Odierno before the Committee, we ex- tend our sincere thanks to you both for your many years of service and dedication to our Nation.