Thanks to the witnesses for appearing today and particular thanks for the comprehensive look at our presence in the Arctic.
I am going to take the chair seriously, as I always do, when he talks about air readiness. In the context of the Arctic, it seems clear to me that air readiness is about more than just a response to foreign threats. In fact, on a daily basis, it's about the kinds of things you talked about: surveillance, search and rescue, and disaster response.
I started my career working in the north. I volunteered on search and rescue. The way we did it was to lie down on the ramp of the Hercules and look out the back. I did that several times. I am interested in search and rescue and how far we've come since those days.
Could you talk a bit more about search and rescue and the air part of search and rescue operations?