CHAIRMAN WICKER LEADS SASC HEARING ON U.S. INDO-PACIFIC COMMAND AND U.S. FORCES KOREA

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Roger Wicker issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today led a hearing to examine the posture of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. Forces Korea amid growing global instability, including ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, and increasing strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific driven by China's military expansion and coordination among authoritarian adversaries.

Admiral Samuel J. Paparo, Jr., USN, Commander, United States Indo-Pacific Command, and General Xavier T. Brunson, USA, Commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea, appeared before the committee.

In his opening re...