If anybody here thinks I want to be the Chairman that goes down in history for having carved up pay and compensation and health care, I assure you I do not. I don't want to be that Chairman. The problem is there's going to be a Chairman that has to do it. So in my view we should get on with it, but we should do it all at once.
Dempsey expresses his reluctance to make cuts to military compensation and advocates for a comprehensive approach.
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