07/26/2011
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"Senator McCain in his opening comment cited that we were reducing 20 percent of the BCTs in the Army."
"this budget requests a precipitous and dangerous drop in military end strength which I believe puts our Nation's security at risk."
"wouldn't quickly cutting U.S. troop levels below 68,000 make it harder to clear and hold insurgent havens?"
"General Dempsey, how do you envision achieving these cuts using the manpower management tools available to shape the force with incentives and early retirements?"