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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaqcn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AF- FAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:33 a.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Mark Kirk (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Kirk, Murkowski, Tester, and Schatz. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF U.S. PACIFIC COMMAND STATEMENT OF MAJOR GENERAL MICHAEL G. DANA, USMC, DIREC- TOR FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING AND POLICY (J5) OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR MARK KIRK Senator KIRK. Our witnesses are Major General Clark and Major General Dana, and from the Defense Health Agency (DHA), Mr. Marshall, and from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), General Todorov. Thank you all for being here. We are going to be hearing from the military departments, the Navy, the Air Force, the Combatant Commanders, to make sure we get down to what projects are doing actually for the national de- fense. We will go with the early bird rule and alternating sides, and I will defer to Mr. Tester for any opening statement you might have. STATEMENT OF SENATOR JON TESTER Senator TESTER. Thank you, Chairman Kirk. I want to welcome the witnesses today and thank all of them for appearing before this subcommittee and for their service to this country. Today's hearing brings together some of our Nation's most crit- ical defense capabilities. This includes Special Operations Com- mand (SOCOM) and our special operators at the forefront of de- fending our Nation. Pacific Command (PACOM), the Combatant Command, at the heart of the 21st century defense policies and geopolitics, and DHA and MDA, the defense agencies charged with the sacred duty of keeping our servicemen and women healthy in

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