I'm concerned and frankly I'm a little more concerned even after your testimony that we as a nation after our population has nearly doubled over the last 40 years, our organic production of energy to meet the demands of that population in terms of energy consumption has not kept up.
Expressing concern over energy production not meeting population growth.
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So now you have got an Active-Duty family going down to a single income for 2 to 3 years wherever they are based.
I think getting that dual income, allowing the spouse to be able to stay in the workforce, but then the collateral benefit of also having that community...
Last year, we missed our recruitment numbers, retention numbers by a net 41,000 personnel, recruits across all the services.
I am very concerned about the lack of, frankly, assets within the Reserve components, especially on the Air National Guard side...
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