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Miltary analysts call10Mav2005 1430

Transcriber: MurphyOn backgroundMr Lawrence (in progress) For those not lam1mrw th the Perragon alpnaoet soup that s orce str~ ctdre, esources and assessmen tFor our purpo ses here on the call. this information is on background. Any information to bequoted or referenced outside of this cell should be referenced coming rom a senkar defensedepartment official. Again , the call is on background.Iam going 10 go anead ano turn it over to-wnos go ing to ope n bp w th kind of a briefoverview Again, I n s dscusson is on the base realignmentan0 closure process As the mvtationstressed there will be no specifics as to the recommendations d sw sse d at the meeting Tns w illa v out the orocess tnat s orouohlLS tn wherewe are lwav .eaoino to the ImmnoInQ elease of-the recomniendations n the coming weeks

Thank yo-, Dallas Goo d afternoo neveryoooy, how are you today" l ust wanted toemphas.ze a co up e of key pomts on both back r o ~ n ono process Many of you are probao yaware of tome of 4 and 1 k n n w ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H w i ii tomake a m i n k of m n t s an0 thenmost valuable po intof these exercises.As you a il are very much aware, the secretary will shortly present his recommendations to theIndependent Commission or BaseClosure and Realignment, chaired by Secretary Pnncipi. Andthe secretary (Rumsfeld) take this process, and the senior leadersh ip ake th is process quitesenousiy It's a matter of great importance to the depar tmentAs ~ O Jnow, we've ned fodr prior base real gnment and closbre rounds an0 the msLHof thathas been theclosure of 97 major installations n the U nted Stares, 55 malor realgnments andanotner 235or so m nor actions of one kind or anotherBased on the budget ustification documents that (we?) prov ide o Congress, our net savings fori l l of those actions hrough the implementation period- basically through fiscal year2001 -wasabout $18 billion, and annually recurring savings that accrue o the department every year afterthat of about $7 billion.One of the Key po nts aoout this rouno certain y a t h o ~ g nav ngs are important and w e'l taI6 alittle b t m ore aw u t this later or. s lhat military value was as a matter of po cy in prior rounds an0was manoated DV statute for tnis m n d o be the hionest considera ilon or tne secre tary'sjudgm ent in terms of what to recommend to the independent commission.BJI aswe ve approacned this process pretty consistently over me last two and a half yeais, we'vehad a handfulof key imperatives nat wev e trieo to guide ourselves by .n this process One ofm u m Inhrmw tranformann and a kev nanof tnat to m linnalce our ntrastTUCTtJre o Our- - ~force structure andour mission (sets? Sensed to ensurehave our footorint. our Dhvslcai foom rintwhe re we can maximize capa bility and m ilitary efficiencyand effectiveness .

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A second key imperative or the department has been to find ways to maximize oint utilizatlon Ofour assets And really what we're trying to do here in many ways is look at these assets-. hesekey military installations, not simply as the asset that belonged o the Army, the Navy, the AirForce or the Marine Corps, but they are key national assets and how can we best position themto support the mission and to support the oint warfighter?Certainly a third element m this will speak to some degree of savings s certainly we're very muchinterested n - as we are in all of our programs - in converting waste lo warfighting That's abumper sticker, but really what we mean here is to the extent that we have frankly resources thatwe are exoendina either in terms of dollars or in terms of oeoolefrom a force orotectlon, orexample, ersp&tive, addressing or taking care of or supporting assets that we no longer require-those are assets that are not being put on the pointy end of the spear to support the warfighter.So that is an important part of rationalizing our infrastructureThe basic process is from a -after the 16" of May remains very much the same 11was in thepast. il's an independent commission. The president ultimatelywill approve or disapprove hework of that commission in whole, but not in part. Congress has an opportunity o reject thoserecommendations n whole but not in oart. The commission can make some changes The bar'sa little bit higher this timeThe commissionhas to find not only that the secretary deviated substantially from either the forcesvi-ct-re plan tnat we prov oea lo Congress earlier this /ear or DL, seection criteria B-t tneycan on y aoo an nsta at on as a c o w e candioate and then actua I, vote to c ose I seven ofme n ne comm ss oners agree an0 at least tw o of mem have v s tea tne insta at onBut as we sort of have approached this process, you know, we have the joint process we'veestablished- he Service unique functions, and I'll argely call them the operational functions,have been handled by the military Services and analyzed by them separately In reporting hoseinto the leadership And then our common business oriented support functions have beenhandled by these Joint Cross Service Groups that we establishedAn0 trim mat ins s ma y q~ te a Key po nt A fundamental esson tnat he earned from or orfodnos of case cos-re an0 rea ignmentwas that th e o nt process- he o nt cross servce gro-Pnrnce'w in ne soec f c - n $1995 nidn t i fen mum so wnat the secfetarv an0 tne eaoershiothem narrowlv constructed- n 119195 we had a arouo on deoot maintenance so instead of.nav nq a g r o h on Oepol ma ntenance. we nad a"groip cmmg at me entire l a ~ s t r act v ies ofme oeoartment S m ar / for me moo.car wor o - nstead of cm ig mere y at meo ca - m tarymeo.ca treatnent faci tes h e re oon ng a1 the ent rely of tnemmcal asset case ratnef man- s t 1006 ng at aoofator es borf ng at lecnnical as a b.s ness m ss on area as vie I as aoairgt ngs we nave n e w oone oefore. frank y on a 10nt bass heaoqi-aners an0 si-poon 0-r SLPP yan1 storage act v ties o eai-cat on a m ra n ng to 006 at tnem i n a comprehensve wayAnd those groups had real authority to make real recommendations o the leadership, and as aresult of that, we ended up with a process that resulted in not guaranteeing hat every answerwould be joint, but in guaranteeing for the common support structure of the department to supportthe warfighter, that these functions would get a joint look throughout the process.Mr Laurence f co. a LSI as< whoever na n r n ne if ~ O Loulo p s i set yo-r phones onmute we re nearing mat yo- cant q ~ t e e r e u o i m e me SO f yo- mu a I pit yo-ronones on mute uvn le ne con1n_es And whoever s outside if !OJ COJSO pease DL! lo-r Pnone.on mute, that'd be great.

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m a n normous emphasb on the oint and the joint p r c m s n this round. I now-has a couple points he'd like to make in that regard.1:ell, clearly, and I now you missed some of what-said so I'll reinforcea little bit of it. but as we looked across all the recommendations and the process that weembarkedon this year, military value was really the primary consideration n assessing a il themilitary bases.And if you look at military value I ook at there basically being lour pillars hat I use to describethat support this talked through those. But as we saw it from the Joint CrossService Groups, and, you know, i worked with the vice chairman and the members oftheinfrastructuresteering group, which is the ISG, included he service vice chiefs. So basica lly hesame guysmat are sitting at the (J-rock?) came over worked tne ISG, so tney were very fa n liarwith wnat the requirements going nto for tne future force needed to be. so it real y became agreat soi,noing boam for a lot of dec slons that were be ng madeBiit tne four p lars rea ly -enab ling transformation, wn ch s cntica, And we reay looked atooing That by accommodating me redeploying forces both for IDPBS (9 ) an0 w hars tailing placewnh OlF and OFF for antcloa tino and resobrcma si-me caoabllnles be ca &e s-roe is a bid ssue-coming up, and looking at that across operation&rairhg and logistics.The -no pillar s ea ly anhanc ng wmoat effectiveness A m this is really examin ng andmplem enting oppo ruriitias for greater jon t activty In many cases Inis s accompisned bycollocating and com bining things Ike train ng technoogy oapot maintenance ana things alongthose linesThe third pillar we looked at was clearly cost It's a huge issue. We looked at recurringannualsavings, and converted, and how they cou ld be converted o warfightars' resourcesavings in theout years, or even in the nea r years.An0 men final y . hinrf what was really great about I n s process, is That we ir e0 to work ham toensure m parl a ity It s a baance between wnat I a keo awut as far as military va ie .transformation, jointness and how yo ^ maxim ze combal effectvenessI ill tell you mat the BRAC DoD organization, and-talked about this earlier, was key tosuccess. They established- t was established early. i t was clearly a unity of effort and acommon ocus. And from the meetings iwas at and w e supported and worked through, there wasclearly an energy and a willingness to look at different ways of doing things. And the Joint CrossService Groups I hink were the real basis for success here. They allowed the Services to thinkout of the box, and take solu tions hat they might not have derived on their own.And fina y from meo m t perspective, we represent the combatant wrnm anoe rs motvem ent inthis process we ren04and saw them on the road. we worxed a reading room where tney werefami a r with eveN scenano that was be ino worked An0 mev were oaramOLnt to recommendma-to makina sure that we maximize combateffectivenesswhile oresewma surge ca oa bi ill~ llowed-us to continue to help protect he homelandi hink Iam ready for any questions you may have, and I hink- is, aswellMr. Lawrence- If folks when they ask their questions if they could state their nam eand whothey're representingon the call, that'd be great With that, we'll open it up to questions.Question: This is (Col) Je ff McCausland working with CBS News. Grea t overview. Quick questionand (one other? Longer?) question. Quick question is I saw where Mr. Principi had commentedabout whether or not the governors have to be involved f you decide to close, let's say a NationalGuard's by like an airfie ld adjacent to a major airport, where there's a lot of you, we got fighter

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wings and a ll that kind of stuff. "A," can you talkabout that, and the longer question, can you talkabout the coordination of Bus effort with the global restatloningplan?To the f rs t qdes l on, I l u s t reterate what Mr Wynne said in h s letter m a n ~ m b e r fmembers of Congress s tnat this depanment wil folo w a ll applcable StatJtes in oeve op ngootions an0 recommendations to the eadershio and L timatelv for tne secretary to cons oe i lorforwarding to the independent commission, and Iwou ldn't want to cha racterize it beyond that.

Your second question- want to be pre cise n the answer. Could you repeat for me, please?Col McCai-stand Yes, co -b you ta k about this process, and how t was m r d nated #Kh meglobal restatoning plan we (ba ance? Bom ce?) out that effort with this elfor

Yes. We 'll there are a number of misperceptions that have been out there w ith regardto some of the suggestions that have b een made or characterization of the Overseas BasingCommission's work. And i know a lot of folks have had both before and subsequent to the releaseof the ir report questions about this.One of m e things bear mentoning s hat the mots of tne lo w l postare re* ew me integratedglobal presence and bas ng strategy th a l^ ^^ ^^ ^^ H re fe rr eo to botn ways nas 1s roots ,nODR one An d i n we've been at tn s or some t ma And stoh-"mi to ODR fine mesecretary- . . . . .. -. ... .. . . . . -- . , . . - ~-orovided directions a he combatant commanders to beoin to dev elm ootions for therepositioning resetting he force globally And we be ga nto work on thatprocess in earnestFrankly, that process as it evolved, came tw eth er in a wav and the decisions were rendered in away that made them available o inform h e 6 ~ ~ ~rocess. And that's important, because to theextent mat we were comem plat ng the return of forces from abroad to me J n ed Stales, tneBRAC Process gives JS a key opportunity to look at ail of our instal atlons an3 rea ion our misslonsets in ower to accommodate re tirn ing forces Yes tnat s true but it gives "s an opportunity toask an0 answer the qdeston where can re tim ing forces best oe pas toned? AS opposed to thequest on wed have to ask and answer wnnout BRAC which is largely where COJO we f t them?And the timing of this, the leng th of time of consideration, the full involvement of the combatantcommanders, the S tate Department, our interagency partners, our consultationswith theCongress over the course of som e periodof time resulted n a fairly comprehensive report to theCongress last year - ast September, I believe- hat laid out our broad strategy for and decisionsfor how we would reposition he force globally.Now certainly a lot of that will- on the things that are overseas related will continue o take theform of negotiationswith interes tedparties and host governments, but those pieces hat involvethe re turn of forces to the United States. oarticularlv from Eurooe. are stronalv suvwr ted bv thecombatant commander, General ~o ne s,'a nd ertainly n many ways he inttiated agood deal ofthat. And we believe we're well positioned to implement this effectively.

An0 Jeff. just to pile on, two po nts that- maoe tnat are crncai here sthat we haa to OJ Ida program this fa1 That rea l y supportea wnat we wanted to 00 from aposnloning oJr fo rces from overseas, and so we ha0 to basically set the table for wnere BRACcould ao Ana in Inew Ih that we worxed rt he Services to mace sure that tnev'd bu ild a forcestructure - out a force structure dan that we've already delivered to Conaress that laid outexactly what we thought force structure would look l i k i i n the program review that we buildsimultaneously with the (7 POM?)Question: This is Ken Beaks from BENS (Business Executives or NationalSecurity).

Ken, how are you?

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Mr. Beaks: Great, thanks. When we look at the 1st on Friday, because Iknow you don't want tosay anything now about which ones are on there obviouslv, but when we look at the imperativesof furtnennitransformat on and max mizing ointness s h o ~ we be loo

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might want to do something in education and training. So theywere able to look, you know. notonly across the department, but at each Service to see what made sense them . And I hink whenwhat comes out on Friday that you'll basically see - hat will be the fruits of that product.Question: David Rodriquez, the national commander of the American (GI?) Forum (7). Basicallywhat you're saying, we're setting up the military to be a brigade-sized unit, or first strike, and lim itour division size, so this way we can kind of down-size the Service, and still be able to do thesame kind of job. Is that what you're saying?

- think what you're alluding o is bas icallywhere the Army is going withmodularization. And there are some discussions and decisions that take place not only in theforce structure or what the Army's putting in that will impact what could be submitted in a BRACsubmission. But that is germane towhere we're headed but that's not really one of the thingswe're looking at as far as the BRAC process.Question- Don Sheppard, CNN. What provisions have you made in this list for the homelandsecurity mission?

Well the homeland defense mission of the department is covered- s gove rned by theand if can oull the selectioncriteria uo here it's specificallymentioned here incriterion two, where we haveto consider the ava ilability and conditionof land fac ilities andassociatedair space including, you know, the (?inaudible) numberof missions, but to also includethe homeland defense missionsof the armed forces. So we have to take homeland defense intoaccount, and we haveMr. Lawrence. Next ques tion please.Are there any additiona l questions for the group? Thank youvery much. Just to reiterate, his was on background, any quotes to be used should be quotedassenior defense department officials. And we look forward to talking to you folks, in the near future.