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Jerry Moran Asks Reserve Forces Official About Consequences Of Passing The Continuing Resolution
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5/30/2025
During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing prior to the Congressional recess, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) questioned Lieutenant General Leonard F. Anderson IV, Commander of the Marine Corps Forces Reserve, about the continuing resolution.
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Senator Bozeman, thank you. Starbase, I've taken an interest in, General Nordhaus,
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but following the CR, our fault, not yours, we've experienced these temporary closures of star bases
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and that is troublesome to me. And again, we'll do everything we can one more time to make sure
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we don't have another continuing resolution, but how long, how can the current funding get this
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program through this fiscal year? What do you expect? Will there be another pause or can we get
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through the fiscal year with the money that you have? Senator Moran, first off, I'd like to give a
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shout out to both of your adjutants generals as star bases go across the 54. There's 90 locations
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and General Venerti and General Bridges, once again, just do amazing work. And so as we look
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at the star base program, I don't have the exact dollar, so we'll have to get back to you. But I
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know how important those programs are, the STEM and what they bring to the fight into our youth as we
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get after building our youth so that they have those engineering and mathematical skills that we
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hopefully bring into the National Guard or to our armed forces so that we can have the best and
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the brightest and the most skilled, capable people to defend our homeland, respond in the homeland,
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and win our nation's wars if needed. I'll give back to you on the statistics and facts.
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Thank you very much. We were discouraged to learn that star bases were going to conclude their work
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and enough money, fortunately, was found to keep them temporarily going. I would like to see that
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we'd make it through at least this fiscal year and give Congress another chance to and the
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administration to get its work done. And thank you, Senator, for the support. You're welcome.
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My final question is of the of the leaders here who have not answered this question,
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for the record and for our use with our colleagues. What's your experience with the continuing resolution
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with the consequences? Help us make the case that a continuing resolution is not. I mean, we've never
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done what what has happened this past year has never happened before. Tell us why it shouldn't happen
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again. And I'm not sure several of you have spoken about this, but if you have something you'd like to
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make the case for us or help us make the case, I'd be glad to hear your answers.
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Senator Anderson, thank you. From the maritime side of the table, Senator.
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Yes, sir. I have three different areas really in the CR. And again, thank you for
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the Negriya under these conditions. That was certainly helpful. But where it most affects us is people.
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As you know, with reservists, our most precious resource is time. And what I lose is time with reservists
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under a CR. How? First of all, the active duty support orders, those have been turned off for the
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rest of the fiscal year or any additions to that, I should say. So some of that would certainly affect
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our exercises and training. What we see as we integrate with the active component, as they have
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to reduce some of their exercises due to their operational funds being reduced, is that now there are
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limited opportunities for our reservists to train alongside our active component, which is exactly how
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we're going to operate in Indo-PACOM. And then lastly, we've had to discontinue our enlistment
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incentive bonuses for reservists. So now there's reserves that wanted to stay in, they haven't been
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able to sign up, and we're hoping for the next fiscal year that we'll be able to keep them on board.
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And as his amphibious partner here, thank you for saying the naval services, I would say again, I would
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echo the thanks for the Negriya in the CR. Those are very
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informed that they are a year old when the committee made out when we were not executing
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strength, we're in a different situation now. We made end strength in April, we're going to end
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the fiscal year above authorized end strength but within controls due to the success of our
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recruiting effort. And so that reality doesn't necessarily carry through in the process when
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we're taking a CR and carrying it forward, if that makes sense. Thank you.
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And Senator, for the Army Reserve, again, it's just like my teammates, it's a reserve pay
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account's most affected. I think with the CR, we, it was about $186 million less than our
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president's budget submission. And so that affects cutting orders, soldiers that were scheduled to
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go to school, exercises, you know, all of that affects the predictability of our formation, which
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really is the most important piece for us. And if I could just share one thing to Senator
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Bozeman's point on partnership with, with reserve forces. So we do a lot of partnership. Don't
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mean to veer into this, sir, but we do a lot of partnership with other nations, reserve forces.
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We, I was just in Poland, we partnered with the Estonians, the Philippines, of course, our
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Five-I partners. But last year, we hosted a forum during AUSA in October, where we invited many
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reserve force partners to come. We had, from many nations, were there. And my British teammate,
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Mark Lancaster, two-star general, I thought he said one of the most, it was a poignant statement.
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And he said, the war in Ukraine right now is a war being fought between two reserve armies.
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And so all of us, we take that to account. We're laser focused on making sure our young men and
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women are ready. Just wanted to share that with the committee.
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Sir, from the, from the Air Force Reserve, the biggest thing that the year-long CR affects
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us with is the ability to be predictable and stable. So that's the bread and butter of the
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Air Force Reserve. The ability to know in August that I'm going to request time off from my civilian
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employer in October, and knowing that I'm going to have those orders available to me.
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What's ultimately happened is we've driven behavior changes where reservists will no longer
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sign up to serve in October, because they can't adequately predict that they're going to have
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orders to work. Likewise, from a training perspective, when I look at exercise planning,
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we are very hesitant to plan on exercises in August and September, because if a CR exists long term,
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or if we get marked later in the year, as in this year, we're likely not going to have the funds or
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the manpower to be able to participate in those exercises. Much like the Air National Guard said,
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and in my opening statement, we are likely to ground our airplanes the first week of September
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this year, because we're $26 million short of executing our flying hour program. It's going to
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directly affect the degree of how ready we are, sir.
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The moment of sunshine has come to an end, and my temporary position is disappearing. But thank you
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all for your presence here today, your leadership, and we have the greatest regard for you and for
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the men and women you lead. Thank you.
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