Another time I was scheduled to justify a lot of money (tens of millions) before a murder board. The board consisted of a 5 Colonels that were just merciless. They actually ripped into a Captain so hard the guy had tears in his eyes. Anyways, the were going program by program in alphabetical order, so I got to sit through a long series before the got to TALCE. But I was prepped, ready for any question, could pull tons of data from memory to show the cost advantage of every dollar spent. So they call "TALCE is next...any questions?" Silence. Then they voted for full funding for all of out programs. Later I talked to one of the board member and he said the 4-star said he would be disappointed if the TALCE received anything less that full funding.