i [H.A.S.C. No. 113–22] HEARING ON NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014 AND OVERSIGHT OF PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED PROGRAMS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION FULL COMMITTEE HEARING ON THE POSTURE OF THE U.S. NORTHERN COMMAND AND U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND HEARING HELD MARCH 20, 2013 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 80–190 WASHINGTON : 2013 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, http://bookstore.gpo.gov. For more information, contact the GPO Customer Contact Center, U.S. Government Printing Office. Phone 202–512–1800, or 866–512–1800 (toll-free). E-mail, [email protected]. COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH CONGRESS HOWARD P. ‘‘BUCK’’ MCKEON, California, Chairman MAC THORNBERRY, Texas ADAM SMITH, Washington WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina LORETTA SANCHEZ, California J. RANDY FORBES, Virginia MIKE MCINTYRE, North Carolina JEFF MILLER, Florida ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania JOE WILSON, South Carolina ROBERT E. ANDREWS, New Jersey FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey SUSAN A. DAVIS, California ROB BISHOP, Utah JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio RICK LARSEN, Washington JOHN KLINE, Minnesota JIM COOPER, Tennessee MIKE ROGERS, Alabama MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam TRENT FRANKS, Arizona JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania DAVID LOEBSACK, Iowa K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado JOHN GARAMENDI, California ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR., Georgia DUNCAN HUNTER, California COLLEEN W. HANABUSA, Hawaii JOHN FLEMING, Louisiana JACKIE SPEIER, California MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado RON BARBER, Arizona E. SCOTT RIGELL, Virginia ANDRE´ CARSON, Indiana CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York CAROL SHEA-PORTER, New Hampshire VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri DANIEL B. MAFFEI, New York JOSEPH J. HECK, Nevada DEREK KILMER, Washington JON RUNYAN, New Jersey JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois STEVEN M. PALAZZO, Mississippi SCOTT H. PETERS, California MARTHA ROBY, Alabama WILLIAM L. ENYART, Illinois MO BROOKS, Alabama PETE P. GALLEGO, Texas RICHARD B. NUGENT, Florida MARC A. VEASEY, Texas KRISTI L. NOEM, South Dakota PAUL COOK, California JIM BRIDENSTINE, Oklahoma BRAD R. WENSTRUP, Ohio JACKIE WALORSKI, Indiana ROBERT L. SIMMONS II, Staff Director CATHERINE SENDAK, Professional Staff Member PAUL LEWIS, Counsel TIM MCCLEES, Professional Staff Member AARON FALK, Staff Assistant (II) C O N T E N T S CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HEARINGS 2013 Page HEARING: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authoriza- tion Act—The Posture of the U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command .............................................................................................................. 1 APPENDIX: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 ................................................................................... 39 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013 FISCAL YEAR 2014 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT—THE POSTURE OF THE U.S. NORTHERN COMMAND AND U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND STATEMENTS PRESENTED BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS McKeon, Hon. Howard P. ‘‘Buck,’’ a Representative from California, Chair- man, Committee on Armed Services .................................................................. 1 Smith, Hon. Adam, a Representative from Washington, Ranking Member, Committee on Armed Services ............................................................................ 2 WITNESSES Jacoby, GEN Charles H., Jr., USA, Commander, U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Army ...................... 3 Kelly, Gen John F., USMC, Commander, U.S. Southern Command, U.S. Ma- rine Corps ............................................................................................................. 5 APPENDIX PREPARED STATEMENTS: Jacoby, GEN Charles H., Jr. ........................................................................... 47 Kelly, Gen John F. ............................................................................................ 73 McKeon, Hon. Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ .................................................................... 43 Smith, Hon. Adam ............................................................................................ 45 DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD: [There were no Documents submitted.] WITNESS RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS ASKED DURING THE HEARING: [There were no Questions submitted during the hearing.] QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY MEMBERS POST HEARING: Mr. Palazzo ....................................................................................................... 122 Mr. Rogers ......................................................................................................... 120 Ms. Shea-Porter ................................................................................................ 121 Mr. Smith .......................................................................................................... 119 Mr. Wittman ..................................................................................................... 120 (III) FISCAL YEAR 2014 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZA- TION ACT—THE POSTURE OF THE U.S. NORTHERN COMMAND AND U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, DC, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:03 a.m., in room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon (chairman of the committee) presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. HOWARD P. ‘‘BUCK’’ MCKEON, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM CALIFORNIA, CHAIRMAN, COM- MITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES The CHAIRMAN. Committee will come to order. Good morning. The committee meets today to receive testimony on the posture of both our Northern and our Southern Command. I am pleased to welcome General Charles Jacoby, Commander of the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace De- fense Command; and General John Kelly, Commander, U.S. South- ern Command. Gentlemen, thank you for your long and distinguished service to our Nation. And thank you for being here today. Even as we proceed in this difficult budget environment and the news commands our attention to Africa and the Middle East, we must be diligent in keeping our own hemisphere safe. Therefore, I was pleased by the Administration’s announcement last Friday af- firming the program of the previous administration to deploy 44 ground-based interceptors at two sites in California and Alaska. On the other hand, canceling the fourth phase of the EPAA [Eu- ropean Phased Adaptive Approach] sends a terrible signal to Amer- ica’s allies. I would have hoped after the 2009 fiasco that we would stop waking up our Eastern European allies to tell them at the last minute that we are changing our missile defense plans on them. General Jacoby, I look forward to learning more about how we are filling the gaps in our homeland missile defense. I also look forward to hearing your assessment of the progress being made by the new president of Mexico on drug-related vio- lence and what NORTHCOM [U.S. Northern Command] is doing to support Mexico and build their capacity and capabilities. This is a daily threat and directly impacting the U.S. homeland and we need to treat it as a national security imperative. General Kelly, in my mind, the illicit trafficking threat is the greatest challenge we face in your geographic area of responsibility. While we continue to see success in Colombia, destabilization and violence in Central America is rampant. (1) 2 Tackling these issues requires close collaboration and coordina- tion with NORTHCOM as well as our interagency partners. Unfor- tunately, the Navy will eliminate its ship presence in the Carib- bean in April due to sequestration. This guarantees an increased flow of drugs and illicit networking across our borders. To that end, will you please elaborate on the other consequences of sequestration in both of your commands. Again, thank you, gentlemen, for being here with us today. Mr. Smith. [The prepared statement of Mr. McKeon can be found in the Ap- pendix on page 43.] STATEMENT OF HON. ADAM SMITH, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM WASHINGTON, RANKING MEMBER, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES Mr. SMITH. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do want to join you in welcoming General Jacoby and General Kelly, thanking them for their very, very long service. I have had the pleasure of knowing both gentlemen for a while. General Jacoby, when he was com- mander out at Fort Lewis, did a fabulous job, was a real asset to our community. It is good to see you again. And, General Kelly, way back when I was first elected, you were working in the liaison’s office, had the opportunity to travel to- gether. You did an outstanding job there and you have done an out- standing job since. So it is a real pleasure to have both you gentlemen here today, and thank you very much for your service. In your current commands, I concur completely with the chair- man. We do have to pay attention to our own hemisphere. It is our, you know, first and most important line of defense. And I have had the opportunity to meet with both of you and I think you are doing an excellent job of that. As the chairman said, the main thing we want to know is how is sequestration affecting that? I know, General Kelly, it is making your primary mission of drug interdiction very difficult if you don’t have the assets to do that. We would like to have you elaborate a little bit more on the challenges of that, and what that means