No impact to recruiting – multiple checks

Q: What changes does this NDS call for in terms of force structure, either manpower levels overall or -- or where they're postured around the world, where troops need to be around the world, whether that's increasing or -- or stabilizing this 100,000 number in Europe, something like that? And what are your concerns about the recruiting environment and being able to meet those needs going forward?

SEC. AUSTIN: I'm confident that we'll have the force, Meghann, to -- to execute our strategy. And in terms of our force posture, we went through a force posture review very early on. There were incremental adjusted -- adjustments from time to time to that force posture laydown that we -- we provided. And again, we have the ability to rapidly deploy capability to -- to Europe, and you saw that exercise at the very beginning of this conflict as we deployed forces from -- heavy forces, armed forces from the United States to -- to Europe very, very quickly. We could do that because of thing -- the things that we'd done with the European Defense Initiative, and we -- we established pre-positioned equipment sites that troops could fall in on very quickly. And so those things have worked out very, very well for us.

We're confident that we'll have the -- that we have the force to be able to execute our strategy. And in terms of recruiting, we continue to focus on this issue. This is a priority for me. It's also a priority for our -- all of our service leaders. And so we continue to invest in those things that -- in -- in -- that will allow us to recruit the best talent that's out there to -- to man this incredible force, so...