Statement of Gordon R. Sullivan, USA retired, Association of the U.S. Army President and CEO:“It is disappointing we sit on the sidelines watching the train wreck that is our defense budget process.“Here we are at the start of a fiscal year with a patchwork appropriations that keeps our military funded only through Dec. 11, and with a veto threat over the defense policy bill. Everything that is happening was avoidable, if only our executive and legislative branches would work together in the name of national security.”“In an increasingly uncertain world, failure to do something so essential as passing a defense budget does nothing to help the morale of our soldiers and other service members, nor being a credible friend and ally and a formidable foe.”