Allen West: “You are talking about a small percentage of Americans that were willing to give their entire lives to make sure we stay…”

If you`re here to stand up to get your musket, to fetch your bayonet and to charge into the ranks, you are my brother and sister in this fight.

So it is a very dangerous road when we start to go down the comparative analysis of the private sector or business sector to the United States military.

If we are making this force smaller and these requirements continue to get bigger, what is going to happen with all of these second and third order things that are going to continue to occur, especially for our families?

I didn't go to law school, nursing school, medical school. I went to airborne school, so I am going to use a little paratrooper logic here.