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                  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
                                 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018


                                   WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2017

                                                         U.S. SENATE,
                       SUBCOMMITTEE  OF THE COMMITTEE  ON APPROPRIATIONS,
                                                             Washington, DC.
                    The subcommittee met  at 10:30 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen
                  Senate Office Building, Hon. Thad Cochran (chairman) presiding.
                    Present: Senators Cochran, Shelby, Collins, Murkowski, Graham,
                  Blunt, Daines, Moran, Durbin, Murray, Reed, Tester, Schatz, and
                  Baldwin.
                                  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
                                    DEPARTMENT  OF THE NAvY
                                    OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                  STATEMENT  OF HON. SEAN J. STACKLEY, ACTING SECRETARY
                           OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR THAD  COCHRAN
                    Senator COCHRAN. The committee will please come to order.
                    This morning, our committee is reviewing the budget submission
                  of the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations, and
                  the Commandant   of the Marine Corps. We appreciate very much
                  the cooperation with our committee in providing statements for our
                  record of the hearing.
                    We have the good fortune of having the best Armed Forces of any
                  Nation. Our committees of jurisdiction have reviewed your written
                  statements, so we invite you to make a summary statement that
                  you think would be helpful to our understanding of your budget
                  submissions.
                    We  have members  of the committee, who served for some time
                  collectively, and it is a pleasure working with them, and I appre-
                  ciate their attendance today. We will proceed now to hear from
                  them. If there are any opening statements, we will be glad to put
                  your statements in the record, and then proceed to hear from the
                  witnesses.
                    [The statements follow:]
                              PREPARED STATEMENT OF SENATOR THAD COCHRAN
                    Good morning, the subcommittee will come to order. Today we are receiving testi-
                  mony on the fiscal year 2018 Navy and Marine Corps budget request. We are
                  pleased to welcome, the Honorable Sean J. Stackley, Acting Secretary of the Navy;
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