Sergeant Banks, I, too, want to thank you for your service. I really appreciate your coming today, and I appreciate hearing from someone who has seen the action on the ground. Your expertise and those insights are really quite valuable to this study, I think.
In your statement, you mentioned the differences in perspectives around the “should not” and “cannot” arguments around responding to natural disasters, and I want to give you a bit more space to talk about it because we've heard in this committee a bit of a different scenario from the senior military leadership.
Since you've been on the ground directly, I would like to hear you maybe elaborate on why that's different.