The Army Corps of Engineers is especially valuable for supporting civil authorities for emergency construction operations, but especially in our system in providing those backup power generators that proved so important, and in dewatering tunnels—a whole range of challenging operations that we saw in hurricane Sandy. The Army Corps of Engineers played a vital vote. Determining how best to use those resources and how much should be invested in building that capability, those are part of the puzzle in times of extraordinary budgetary pressures on the Department of Defense.
On May 6th, 2014. See this statement in context.