ma'am you had your hand up back there in a ma'am i'm coming to you next right here i'm sorry i'm about there thank you guys for doing this with all due respect i'm hearing all of you saying that it's not a crisis mode i'm hearing that we're winning partner forces and we had isis on the run as a matter of fact i was on the ground for four hours and i could not believe the level of lethality we were putting on isis and they were still holding out if you look at where isis was in two thousand and fourteen where they basically had almost all of iraq under control and then they started moving into syria they were a huge problem in two thousand and fourteen but with the strategy we have now where we are building partner capacity we're six training advising assisting in some cases a company our partner forces we have isis on the run in the middle east now obviously this is a generational threat that is born out of an ideology and they also trying to do things in africa and europe and other places but when you look at the effect we've had on isis and how that gets to defending the homeland that's huge very huge and i'll ask any other organization might have what you might not see the thousands and thousands of great things that our service members do on a regular basis both in combat and from a training perspective from a humanitarian support so that's really how how at least i can speak for the air force and how we see the perspective that we take is while we do have challenges we've always had challenges we will likely always have challenges in the future you know you balance that against the great things that we do for this nation is if you talk about a crisis from a numbers of parts of the budget i don't think there's ever been other than thirty four years every day there's a crisis or something as a crisis is something but you walk out and you when we lose someone and that's serious everyone i'm a serious not only do we have to look when i when we lose the individual but they return to the marine corps to the services to still sit beside us that's a constant reminder that we always up to do better about people always doing better about people that's why we're we're we're so focused in on those things that that may not be a crisis outside of the building but it's  a concern of ours i want you to understand what you think they were not concerned about those things we're not here to paint a rosy picture and try to put a will over anybody's eyes but but as leaders of our respective services you know we see every challenge as an opportunity an said it i saw on the news i didn't have a single soldier tell me in three or four years that we're in crisis it challenges it's a complex world we have tragedies these young men and women need to know that the people of america believe the same thing they do and that might get wrapped up in another continuing resolution and here we go again the troops come to you and they say hey stop are going to raise what one of these guys doing what do you tell them how does that affect morale what we tell them exactly what's going on here week we're here in the beltway and in the pentagon and we serve in these high level meetings with our bosses here but also on capitol hill so that we can tell the troops exactly what's going on i can tell you in my travels as i go around the world the troops there are concerns about stuff like dual b h and things like that but more importantly to the troops  great quality of service along with their quality of life mean and you know i want the latest optics i can have on my rifle so i want the latest kind of equipment or technology to get after this emerging unmanned aerial system threat very unit which all services personal and family now from a family perspective you know it i've been in this job a mystery years and never heard a marine ask about a pay raise which you will have marines  is address is you know child development since you sports exception of family member programs those programs that support the family a class b programs it's not that it's a pay raise thing it's when you say be h do b h compensation absolutely absolutely and those things were absolutely involved in as senior enlisted those are the conversation that we have congress about these situations and those are the things that we address the quality of life issues that families address with us as well as our service members to make sure this balance to make sure is balance because i don't care much lethality we talk about if we can't keep high quality war us to fight to fight for this nation we're not only in because they're not going to stay with the list the warrior and for those who have families we try to retain the family because they  mulling on both sides and thanks man for the question so yeah we are and we're happy about getting paid and we're glad that our lives our elected leaders are helping us do that so we think the majority of that's going to come roughly about eighty k from our planning factor for based on how we do throughout the year do you sir i'm sorry go ahead do you see doing to your list months again or are you know kind of quality of life bonuses like that rather than just money i see that i think w have to base it upon the needs because the base upon the needs so far right now we're a little bit below the glide in a session which is not concern will come just first part of the year like i said retention is doing great last year was the best year we had in a decade and i think we're just go the sessions so i'm just wondering what you guys are planning at this point and the second part of the question is i'm wondering if you're seeing any type of more out issue not just among transgendered troops but other troops who see the possibility of their fellow service members being separated based on their gender identity so helping first part of the question then i'll open it up to my colleagues for the second part so right now all of us right here serve on a secretary defense directed transgender policy that is chaired by the deputy secretary of defense and the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff it includes our under secretaries and others but we're part of this panel that is looking to provide guidance to the secretary on what a transgender service panel or service policy should look like right now we've been at this a couple of months and we have till the end of december to come up with a recommendation that will provide to the secretary then so that he can go forward issues from the coast guard being the smallest service absolutely no issues at all and i fact some of my our our service chiefs a couple months ago that made a public declaration that he would stand behind all those members in our service that had started their transition under the old guidelines so i think our workforce appreciates that support and again i don't i don't i have not heard and don't expect it will have any morale issues and our united states coast guard i'll tell you most sailors just educationally it will come up and it's just kind of where are we with the policy that's it they just kind of want to know what do do we so so i'm going to go to you because you've got the best looking hair cut and run and you're giving me some point sounds like they're pretty good but over the next ten years you know there are some signs that are coming out of the blue star families service came out sixty percent of service members say they wouldn't recommend to their children serving i mean you can look at your arms there's a lot of deployments that you're doing  how are you going to change your service in the next ten years to accommodate future recruitment and retain issues so i'll speak for me you know joint perspective first of all  have to be prepared to fight when our nation's battles and with that comes a certain set of standards that we have to have because we can't predict what our enemy is going to be able to do to us so in order to maintain war fighting  competitive advantages we have to make sure that we have the most quality people we have to do the job now as you mentioned and as i described earlier you know when twenty five percent of eighteen to twenty five year olds don't qualify for military service either due to not meeting the physical requirements or other issues then if you look at where that might be in the year of twenty thirty that's potentially a huge risk to our country right there so as we move forward we have to continue to have recruiting excessi practices and policies that attract the best talent that we have but we also have to get beyond what you already talked about you know if one percent of our force serves right now most of their influences in their family hasn't come from their parents it's come from their grandparents who are in the vietnam era and things like that so we have to make sure that we continue to provide practices and policies that attract this talent as it outside where the people in the service i'm of the belief that folks believe that we invest in them that they will stay for longer because the folks at the ten twelve year mark are the folks that we are heavily invested in and we want to keep them as career certain certain circumstances however i think the greatest tool that we have these days is offering young men and women in america today the opportunity to do something that they love and sometimes that's an actual occupation  like cyber or being a space operator and sometimes s opportunity to just serve their country and do something bigger and better than themselves so i mean we always look at ways that we can improve our recruitment and retention we always look at ways that we can make sure that we are you know maintaining ties with the evolving you know ties of the day you know things like recently we started that you and the other air force leaders have expressed concern about the pace of deployments are you seeing are you seeing the pressure and the pace increase are we looking at more going on say a one to one deployment ratio huge increase in the point some of them are are spread out we're actually taking a look at some of our three hundred sixty five day deployments to see if those you know if if we have the right number of folks to point for the full year whole to make sure that when we're meeting the requirements into that we're maintaining the right level of readiness him around for those folks who frequently go ahead ma'am i just want to go back briefly to  question of whether or not there is a crisis of readiness because as several other people have mentioned there stephanie it sounds like capitol hill but there is and that's part of the reason that a large part of the reason that the armed services committees passata a large defen authorization bill let's pass the budget caps so i guess two questions on that if there isn't a crisis why why is there such a why is they can you give us a justification for why then why would you get such a large you know i when we talk about crisis i think about once the last time we had an extremely plan an extremely prepare and externally executed attack on the united states well it eleven ok we've gotten much better at defending our homeland whether it's through how we share information or what we're doing and it's having an impact on those violent extremists that pose a threat to us the other thing is when you talk to a a man or woman that serves in the united states military there's things that they have to deal with every day they may not have the right amount of people they should by their table of organization and equipment that they should have they may not have the right amount of equipment to do what they need to do and they may not have the right conditions set but every day whether it's a young staff sergeant airman a joint terminal attack controller in syria that i saw in may that in my opinion he was the only guy out there with a couple of green berets he was the air combat commander if you ask me because he kept putting lethal my term sky nion on isis that was having a huge effect because of his ability to do the mission and because of his relationship with those remotely piloted aircraft so we don't look at that as a crisis and our men and women don't look at that as a crisis they look at every day i have to manage risk and i have some things that i'm presented with every day that i have to deal with and they get after i mean the world is unstable right so there's an increasing demand for air power it is an increasing demand for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance so so as the world becomes  more unstable around us than the before increase readiness increased weapons systems you know will continue to increase so again we don't necessarily see it as a crisis in sat the military but you know we're responding to the threats and the challenges of the world around us so i mean you know you look at the group sixteen years ago we've been fighting no nation states for the last sixteen years when you look out there if you look back to the nine you know ten and you look at the view of the world and who were focused on sixteen years later totally different totally different as a nation states out there that have absolutely captured our attention and on top of that you know technology today than cost what it did there you know when we started this sixteen year war cost about forty five hundred dollars to outfit the basic infantry marine today a cost of almost sixteen thousand sixteen thousand sixteen years later so when you talk about budget you try to go from you know from where you started in the sixteen year war to the war we're going to fight today and tomorrow significantly different costly we've updated just about every aircraft platform in the marine corps sunset the c h forty six v twenty two has taken us further more lethal i mean capability than ever before in the marine corps and every technology to work at the equipment all of that equipment takes a person or people a group of people and where we you know look at you know armed forces classification testing whatever it is you've got to put people beyond that that cyber that entails that electronic warfare in numbers that we've never had supply before it's just you look at aviation and you look at if you're from a marine perspective aviation when we started nine eleven is significantly higher in many parts than it was nine eleven take a look at difference or not the difference has gone down aviation has come up and other areas of you know warfare military organization specialties for the marine corps so we look to news out every year that's what we're trying to get it and try to match budget trying to match people you know to make all the work it's no one else outside of the disability has to do a complex job like that so i would say don't compare us with any other google anybody out there because over two million in uniform over two million every day in uniform in this building along twenty two plus thousand just on the deal be attached to the building whether in the building physically or someplace else nobody has the complexity to do and the fact they were sitting here enjoying freedom freedom is not free it's not free and we fully understand it so this this is what we want to address you today to let you know we care more as much as our bosses and anyone about personal and readies make no