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Martin Dempsey: “If anybody here thinks I want to be the Chairman that goes down in history for having carved up pay and compensation and…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2014
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.
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Martin Dempsey
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Editor's note · Context

Dempsey expresses his reluctance to make cuts to military compensation and advocates for a comprehensive approach.

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