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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysarjy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AF- FAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:34 p.m. in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Jerry Moran (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Moran, Murkowski, Boozman, Schatz, Tester, and Murphy. U.S. ARMY STATEMENT OF GENERAL CURTIS M. SCAPARROTTI, U.S. ARMY, COM- MANDER, U.S. EUROPEAN COMMAND OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JERRY MORAN Senator MORAN. The subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon. We are joined today-in fact, it is an honor and privilege to have with us General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, who is the com- mander of the United States European Command and the NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. Our Nation was founded based upon a set of complex relation- ships with European countries. The complexity of our relationship regarding military support was developed due in significant part to alliances with allied powers of World War II leading to the first U.S. military headquarters in Europe in 1942 and in 1944, desig- nating an official command structure with then then Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, a title now held by our witness today. We wish you were a Kansan, General. Looking at the last 25 years, Europe has been a continent in transition. From the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the expansion of NATO and now the resurgence of Russia with its aggressive global power interests, European Command has had to adapt to a new re- ality of instability and uncertainty, forcing us to examine our part- nerships and relationships with the 51 countries within the Com- mand's area of responsibility. The new reality must also take into account that despite the re- cent rise in turmoil and tension, we have reduced our footprint in Europe over the last 30 years. In 1989, the Army had 213,000 (1)

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