I think that, tactically, to put it into the military term, you are looking at trying to make an impression and get your point across before they start making their deliberations, ... I think the timing is perfect.

At the time I was designing T-shirts, trying to invent little toys and stuff. One of my biggest goals in life is to go to the bank really hard doing something really stupid.

The separation of civilian and military nuclear facilities poses a big problem for them. They are worried and nervous because it asks them to change their set pattern of working, which they have been used to for the last three decades.

The Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program and a variation of the Thrift Savings Plan, the Military Savings Plan, being opened up to active-duty military personnel were the result of AFAP initiatives.

Our location is where we need to be. We're close to the courts, we're close to the law firms. . . . It's on the light-rail line. There's a high concentration of lawyers in the Central Corridor.

That's just not the appropriate venue for that, ... The appropriate venue for that is in front of Congress in the normal defense authorization and appropriations process. It's ironic that the Department of Defense is actually using a law established by Congress to keep Congress out of the process.