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On the recordOctober 24, 2011
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.
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Allen West
Republican · Florida

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West warns against comparing military service to civilian jobs.

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My colleagues and I have introduced legislation that takes further steps in order to deter companies and individuals from entering into oil agreements with the Castro regime.

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Is there some system in place to make sure that when we have these type of contracts down there that we do look at the local subcontractors?

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And as I have said, I was told don't do anything stupid quite a few times in my military career.

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Nov 17, 2011

You bring up a great point because the Army that I was commissioned into in 1982 and the threats that we saw then were totally different than the threats that I saw in 2005, when I went to Afghanistan.

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