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But we're sitting on them in a sense that they're prepared to ship once they are needed. Once HHS exhausts its stock.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Many of those ventilators deployed with the USNS Comfort and Mercy in New York and( Los Angeles), respectively. They are with our field hospitals. We have several field hospitals deployed in New York, in Seattle, in New Orleans and Dallas. And then we provided several hundred more that are pre-positioned and ready to go, particularly with regard to New York City when they're needed.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are prepared to distribute to HHS up to 2,000 deployable ventilators for use as needed. These machines are different from their civilian equivalents and require special training to operate, but we are committed to supporting HHS's requirements in any way we can, the department has made our 14 certified coronavirus testing labs available to test non-DOD personnel as well, and we will soon offer two additional labs for that purpose. We hope this will provide excess capacity to the civilian population.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
While it may have some impact on readiness, it will not affect our ability to conduct our national security missions.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I continue to stress to my friends in Europe -- and just this past week again at the NATO Defense Ministerial in Brussels -- that America's concerns about Beijing's commercial and military expansion should be their concerns as well.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is essential that we -- as an international community -- wake up to the challenges presented by China's manipulation of the long-standing international, rules-based order.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think it's necessarily tied to China. As you know it's tied to some other issues. So again, I'm going to take this one step at a time. I don't get too excited about these things. We've got a process we have to work through. We just received it 9 hours ago.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We just got the notification late last night, we have to digest it, we have to work through the policy angles, the military angles, I want to hear from my commanders, but United States know in my view it's unfortunate that they would make this move.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Clearly they're trying to build long range ballistic missiles with the ability to carry a nuclear warhead.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm not going to wade into the hearings and things that are taking place on Capitol Hill right now, obviously it's... a highly charged environment so I'm going to not weigh in on that other than to say that Colonel Colonel Alexander Vindman is still an active duty member of the military and continuing to perform his job on a daily basis.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Obviously it's... a highly charged environment so I'm going to not weigh in on that other than to say that Colonel Colonel Alexander Vindman is still an active duty member of the military and continuing to perform his job on a daily basis.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If that's what it takes, we are prepared to support.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The President never said there was specific intelligence to four different embassies.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Esper said, in an impromptuPentagon news conference. According to a statement released by the Pentagon, Esper said that the U.S. message is that the ball is in Irans court, and the United States encourages Iran to de-escalate the situation. Esper added that the U.S. is open to discussing issues and having a more normal relationship with Iran. But if Iran chooses to go the other path, we are prepared to deal with that and will respond forcefully.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I think we just got to again assess the situation -- let's see what they're saying publicly, see what they're saying privately, look at our intelligence, all those things, we're not going to do anything imprudent. ... These are serious times and we take things one step at a time.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think the threat was being orchestrated by Soleimani, that's what the intelligence reported. That's what he was doing on the ground in both Baghdad and Damascus and elsewhere, and I think it was only a matter of days, certainly no more than weeks.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We watch them very closely, we see their movements. I don't want to get anymore into that because it starts to get into intelligence issues so I'll just leave it at that.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't know what that letter is ... We're trying to find out where that's coming from, what that is. But there's been no decision made to leave Iraq. Period.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq, i don't know what that letter is ... We're trying to find out where that's coming from, what that is. But there's been no decision made to leave Iraq. Period.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
At the direction of the Commander in Chief, I have authorized the deployment of an infantry battalion from the Immediate Response Force of the 82nd Airborne Division( in Fort Bragg, North Carolina) to the U.S. Central Command area of operations in response to recent events in Iraq.
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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