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Chris Murphy: “We are sitting on the smallest Army since World War II, the smallest Navy since World War I, and the oldest and smallest…”

On the recordApril 5, 2016
We are sitting on the smallest Army since World War II, the smallest Navy since World War I, and the oldest and smallest Air Force ever.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy criticizes the current state of U.S. military forces.

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