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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

We really want to make sure that people who aren't eligible for these S&I pays are adequately compensated.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

I found it really interesting, that a majority of the healthcare was going to dependents, retirees, et cetera.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

I need a breakdown of who served: ethnically, racially, by Service, by year; and what the casualties were, by Service, by race, by ethnicity, by year.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

It's very healthy for the military. It's very healthy for the country.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

It preserves the citizen-soldier concept.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

General Stultz, what percentage of the Army Reserve has deployed?

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

The one thing that I've learned, that I wasn't aware of before and does concern me, is, as these men and women deploy overseas, the one thing we can't capture--and they don't complain about it, but--is the opportunity lost.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

What is the year that this adjustment was made?

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

I agree. That's the second point that I was making, in terms of medical practice.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

It's a very troubling statistic, to me. I hope we can look at it, not simply medically, but in these other ways, as well.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

that's a moral contract. It's a moral contract that goes beyond benefits, and it goes to the life of an individual who spends a career in the military.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

If Congress should enact a law that says, 'Pay money for this circumstance,' typically, it says, under regulations established by the Secretary of Defense...

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

That's actually very healthy for the military.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

Frankly, we don't see any strain on the force, the way it's working.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

Actually, when I was Assistant Secretary of Defense, we did----

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

I pushed so hard to get this GI Bill through.

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Jim Webb
@jimwebb· Democratic · VA· Mar 9, 2010

As a former infantry rifle platoon and company commander, I think the question needed to be asked.

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