Guam Chamber of Commerce

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Guam Chamber of Commerce

• ARMED FORCES COMMITTEE (AFC)
• WASHINGTON TRIP
• July 14 - 18, 2008

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Annual Visit

• AFC Team
• Gerald S.A. Perez, Immediate Past AFC Chairman
• James L. Adkins
• Joe M. Arnett
• Roger Crouthamel
• AFC Chairman Steve Ruder unable to attend
• Military and Congressional Leadership
• Asia Pacific Force Realignment
• MILCON and Insular Oversight
• East Asian Policy

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Not usjust visiting the 911 Memorial!
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PAST VISITS 80 Pentagon - 20 Capitol Hill

• More Focus on Pentagon, Selling Guam
• Strategic Importance, U.S.A. in Asia
• Invest at Home

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THIS YEAR20 Pentagon - 80 Capitol Hill

• More Focus on Capitol Hill
• Policy and Funding Support
• Two Largest MILCONS Guam and Korea each 10
  Billion
• Lots of Concern, Need to Educate Members and
  Professional Staff

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Purpose Stay on Message

• 1) Guams Strategic Importance
• Geographic Proximity to Hot Spots
• U.S. National Security
• Economic Trade Routes
• Regional Allies
• Sensitize Military and Congressional Leadership
• Guams Capacity Limitations
• Need for Unified Island Infrastructure Upgrade
  (Military Customers)
• Congressional Oversight, Support

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National Strategic Policy Decision

• Enhance Forward Operating Enterprises
• Air and Sea Power Projection
• More Flexible Military Posture Close to Theater
  and War on Terror

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National Strategic Policy Decision

• Proximity and Engagement with Friends and Allies
  in Asia
• Facilitates Coalition Training and Exercises
• Humanitarian Assistance

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Purpose Stay on Message

• 3) Raise Other Issues of Concern
• Military Build Up
• Population to Grow 20
• Inadequate Outside the Fence Infrastructure
• Funding and Local Capacity for Build Up
• Integrated Military and Civilian Infrastructure
  Upgrades Where Mutually Beneficial

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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Monday, July 14th
• Paul Arcangeli, David Sienicki, Cathy Garman,
  Vickie Plunkett and Eryn Robinson, House Armed
  Services Committee-Readiness Subcommittee Staff
• Update on local progress and DoD Funding, JGPO
• Had visited Guam in 2007
• Reiterated Support for Guam build up
• Strong desire to ramp up funding, but monitoring
  Japan funding closely to ascertain level of
  commitment
• Staff concerned about lack of commitment by other
  federal agencies for local projects

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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Monday, July 14th (contd)
• Walter Hearne, House Armed Services Committee,
  Military Construction
• Funding support and possible supplementals
• Need to track other federal agency support
• Guam build up not only a DoD concern
• Understands need for more MilCon before
  construction bubble JGPO impact.
• President must put in budget, Congress has
  limited flexibility for supplementals (only when
  projects ready to go, not for planning, AE, etc.)

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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Monday, July 14th (contd)
• LTG Clyde Vaughn, Director, Army National Guard
• Very upbeat and impressed by Guam National Guard
• Continuing upward personnel trend and training
• Recognized excellent contribution on War on
  Terror
• Visibly disturbed over Guams latest casualties
  (SSgt Joseph Gamboa, SSgt Brian Leon Guerrero and
  SSgt Samuel Mora)
• NASCAR an effective Guard recruitment PR program
• First visit by Guam Chamber to National Federal
  Leadership
• Has son in Marines and aware of build up
• Open to idea of organic airlift capability for
  Guam and Micronesian region far away from Hawaii
• Would like to continue future visits with Guam
  Chamber

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64th Annual Guam Liberation Wreath Laying Ceremony
Arlington National Cemetery
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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Tuesday, July 15th
• Major General E.Gray Payne, ADC Installations
  Logistics and Brig. Gen. Mark Clark, Director,
  Policies and Operations, USMC HDQ
• MajGen Payne will visit Guam soon
• A Marine Colonel will be posted at Adelup to work
  with GovGuam planners to better integrate the
  master planning process
• Hon. Wayne Arny, Deputy Under Secretary of
  Defense for Installations and Environment
• Now in charge of all DoD military installations
  world wide
• Very familiar with Guam
• Was principal deputy to BJ Penn, Navy Assistant
  Secretary
• Planning Guam visit August 2008

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MajGen E.Gray Payne and BG Mark Clark, USMC HDQ
LtGen Vaughn National Guard
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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Tuesday, July 15th (contd)
• Joe Ludovici, Deputy Director, JGPO
• Update on JGPO progress, confirmed Japan funding
  in September 2008 Budget
• Draft EIS Spring 2009, Final December 2009
• Current Joint Military Master Plan
• Siting alternatives and family housing
• Main camp and sites/locations for ship
  embarkation and aviation units
• Still determining training areas, transient
  carrier berthing and Army ballistic missile
  defense lay down
• Current issues
• How to implement direct Japanese cash
  contributions
• Organizing integrated utilities support

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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Tuesday, July 15th (contd)
• Joe Ludovici (contd)
• Currently five (5) working groups
• Infrastructure, Health/Human services,
  Environmental, Labor, Socio-Economic
• Future Goals
• Assistance from Federal Highway Administration
• Building Qualified Work Force
• Increased Manning for Local Agencies re
  Permitting, Visas, etc.
• Improving Civilian Healthcare and Education
• Next JGPO update when project financial details
  available, Spring 2009

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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Tuesday, July 15th (contd)
• Hon. William C. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of
  the Air Force for Installations, Environment and
  Logistics
• Putting together a tech team and investment
  bankers meeting in New Mexico on waste and energy
  opportunities and would like Guam to be a part of
  this initiative
• Just resigned, effective August 15th Replaced by
  Mr. Kevin Billings
• RADM Ted N. Branch, Director of Information,
  Plans and Security (was Skipper of USS Nimitz)
• Mr. Paul Parker, Deputy AF Civil Engineer, HDQ AF
• Big dilemma is funding for all new aircraft and
  military construction requirements

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Hon. William C. Anderson
Paul Parker
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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Wednesday, July 16th
• Mary Yoshioka, Military Legislative Assistant,
  Sen. Daniel Inoue (D-HI)
• Chief of Staff not convinced build up can happen
  in compressed time period given many practical
  considerations
• Major Apra Harbor and Submarine Squadron
  investments caught in funding/decision dilemma
  also as in Pearl
• Movement of 3 more LA class boats to Guam require
  new headquarters building and upgraded training
  facility
• Pearl submarine piers sized for LA class boats,
  but need to accommodate the larger Virginia class
  vessels requiring longer piers and major capital
  investment
• Wants to see integrated master plan from Navy and
  JGPO
• Concerned over effectiveness and joint support
  from other federal agencies re infrastructure
  upgrade

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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Wednesday, July 16th
• Andy Vanlandingham, Military Legislative
  Assistant, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE)
• Understands Pacific Theater and U.S. Strategic
  Planning
• Wants to get Sen. Ben Nelson to Guam and Asia to
  see recent developments
• Discussed retirement issues re General Officers
  recalled into duty, TAG

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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Wednesday, July 16th (contd)
• Rep. Mazie Hirono, (D-HI), Committee on Labor and
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  with Diana Weistmantel, Military Legislative
  Assistant
• Acknowledged that MilCon good for flagging
  tourism sector, like in Hawaii
• Willing to co-sponsor Port Legislation re MARAD
  participation
• Airline Industry Critical, Looking into Partial
  Re-regulation
• Tony Babauta, PSM, Natural Resources Insular
  Affairs
• Here on Guam this week
• Update on CNMI, Federalized Immigration
• MilCon Support

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Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)
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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Wednesday, July 16th (contd)
• Rep. Solomon Ortiz, (D-TX), Ranking Member, House
  Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and
  Member of Air and Land Forces Committees with
  Lindsay Young, Military Legislative Assistant
• Wants to visit Guam after election
• Staunch supporter of Guam build up
• Rep. Kay Granger, (R-TX), with Katie Horner,
  Military Fellow and Military Legislative
  Assistant
• Concerned over lack of federal support for local
  infrastructure upgrade
• Rep. Dave Hobson (R-OH), House Armed Services
  Committee, Military Construction, with Kenny
  Kraft, Military Legislative Assistant
• Retiring this year - wants to visit Guam before
  term up
• Great supporter of Quality of Life
• Supported Guam build up

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Katie Horner, Military Fellow and MLA for Rep.
Kay Granger (R-TX), USMC Pilot
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Rep. Dave Hobson (R-OH)
Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
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64th Annual Guam Liberation Day Party
HASC Chairman Ike Skelton and CW Bordallo
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64th Annual Guam Liberation Day Party
White House Marine Corps Band
Ceidree Duenas, 2008 Miss Guam Liberation Day
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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Thursday, July 17th
• Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) with Bonni Berge,
  Military Legislative Assistant
• Very concerned about cultural impact and would
  rather go slowly than rushing the build up
• Taken aback by 4 billion request for Guams
  roads Did not realize that Parsons Brinckerhoff
  was working with the Guam DPW to validate
  long-term costs and needs
• Sent letter to OMB requesting creation of single
  POC in the White House to coordinate all
  activities
• Supportive of Congresswoman Bordallos provisions
  in FY09 NDAA.

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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Thursday, July 17th (contd)
• Sen.James Webb (D-VA) Appropriations Committee on
  Defense, Military Construction and Foreign
  Operations Gordon Peterson, Military Legislative
  Assistant
• Senator planned a trip to Guam with committee
  members but cancelled because DoD did not allow
  him to include his wife and baby
• Wants more senators to know and see first hand
  what we have all been saying
• Spent several months in Guam and the CNMI
• Wife was a refugee on Guam during evacuation of
  Vietnamese to Andersen AFB
• Authored a strategic document (now a book) which
  positioned Guam exactly as we had been saying
  (AFC White Papers)
• PSM also expressed a desire to have JGPO answer
  concerns about the local government

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• Congressman Gene Taylor (D-MS)

Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)
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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Thursday, July 17th (contd)
• Erin Conaton, Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO),
  Chairman, House Armed Services Committee,
  Tactical Air and Land Forces
• Quick stop to thank HASC support for Guam
• Rep. Gene Taylor (D-MS), Chairman of Seapower and
  Projection Forces Subcommittee
• In joking fashion, said the group did not need to
  meet with him because everything Madeleine says
  is Guam this and Guam that
• Supportive of provisions in the FY09 NDAA
• Wedded to the need for 313-ship Navy and taking
  necessary steps in the Seapower Subcommittee to
  ensure its reality

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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Thursday, July 17th (contd)
• Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Chairman of the Air
  and Land Subcommittee, with Neely Marcus,
  Military Legislative Affairs
• Aggressive position that the military should be
  pushing other federal agencies to finance
  infrastructure build up
• Wants meeting with McCain and Obama staff to
  discuss merits of JGPO Act and MARAD Port
  Legislation
• Wants campaign to better understand and address
  the complexities of the military build up on Guam
  and strategic importance of the Pacific theater
  in general

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• Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI)

Senator James Webb (D-VA)
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AFC Appointments andPersonal Contacts, July
14-18, 2008

• Thursday, July 17th (contd)
• Cathy Garman and Vickie Plunkett, House Armed
  Services Committee
• Guam Shipyard and Alaska Native Corporation (ANC)
  Issues, Local Vendor Discrimination and Local
  Purchases of Liquor
• ANC take-over of contracts is not a new issue
• In many cases, contracts go to ANCs because of
  laziness of contracting officer
• Discussed potential location of the Guam Shipyard
  depending on where carrier pier is located
• Friday, July 18th
• Clyde Taylor, Military Legislative Assistant,
  Sen. Chambliss (R-GA)
• Generally supportive of Guam build up Rep.
  Randy Forbes, (R-VA), Ranking Member, HASC on
  Readiness, Tactical Air and Land Forces, and Rep.
  Joe Wilson (R-SC), HASC Ranking Member of Army
  and Air Force Acquisition Program, Sea Power and
  Expeditionary Forces and Military Personnel

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Take Aways

• Budget and election year political climate a
  serious impediment to getting things done
• Senate and House action on defense measures
  stymied and calendar backed up
• Authorization for MARAD participation in Guam
  Port upgrade and National Defense Appropriations
  Act (NDAA) pending
• Several Guam projects left out (i.e. CSS15
  Headquarters, Bachelors Quarters, etc.)
• Air Force leadership confirmation held up, i.e.
  Secretary Donley, Gen. Schwartz (COS) and Gen.
  McNabb (TRANSCOM) Note Just confirmed last week

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Take Aways

• Knowledge and visibility of Guam better than in
  previous visits
• More CODEL and Staff Trips to the Island
• Congresswoman Bordallo and Chamber Efforts
• Big concern over Guam build up
• Key pieces falling in place, Okinawa and U.S.
  funding, endangered species issues (Sen. Webb
  Staff)
• Socioeconomic and Cultural impact (Sen. Akaka)
• Compressed timetable not realistic (Sen. Inoue)

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Take Aways

• Big concern over Guam build up (contd)
• Infrastructure impact (Rep. Kay Granger, Former
  Mayor in Fort Worth, TX, had similar experience
  Suggested Guam Chamber of Commerce collaborate
  with counterparts in cities impacted by military
  construction build up)
• Concern for local businesses left out of major
  contracts (HASC Staff and Congresswoman Bordallo)
• Need for accountability on big budget (10B) and
  contracts give to U.S. firms (Rep. Abercrombie),
  adverse wage rates

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Take Aways

• Big concern over Guam build up (contd)
• Need to maintain en route ship repair capability,
  but future work volume under study (HASC ordering
  study)
• HSVs on Order
• RFP out for 8 or 9 vessels
• Two to be forward deployed in Pacific
• Hawaii or Guam?

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Special THANKS

• Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo and Staff, Matt
  Hermann, Jed Bullock and John Whitt for arranging
  appointments on the Hill
• Assistant Secretary BJ Penn for arranging
  appointments with Navy leadership and OSD
• BG Doug Owens and Lou Timmons, Air Force
  Secretary Staff, for arranging appointments with
  Air Force Leadership
• Chamber AFC members for continued support