Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said Thursday he still thinks it’s moderately risky for military effectiveness to end the ban on homosexuals openly serving in the US military during a time of war. But he noted that he’s grown more comfortable with implementing this policy change as he’s watched the service execute its preparations. “I’m not prepared to fall off of my assessment of moderate risk,” Schwartz told the House Armed Services Committee Thursday. He continued, “But we have trained 100,000-plus airmen to date, and the way we have approached this and the reaction that we have experienced thus far indicates to me that we are mitigating the risk. . . . And so, I am more comfortable than I was” when President Obama enacted the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal last December. “But we still have a ways to go, and it requires the constant attention of all of us to bring this home,” added Schwartz. He appeared before the committee with the uniformed leadership of the other services to discuss this issue.
NORTHCOM’s Budget Priority: Longer Warning Time
April 14, 2021
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck's top priorities in the upcoming budget are domain awareness in the form of farther-seeing over-the-horizon radars, followed by submarine detection capabilities and joint all-domain command and control, the commander of U.S. Northern Command told members of the House Armed Services Committee on April 14. Before building…