It is essential that we provide them and their families with compensation and a quality of life that reflects not only what is needed to successfully recruit and retain personnel, ...
We believe it's sized right. We believe it's prioritized correctly in this budget.
Setting compensation at an appropriate level is critical to the sustainment of robust Guard and Reserve.
America should be very proud of the commitment of the citizen soldier. I know I am.
I couldn't support his idea more. We need to deliver for the troops here.
The Cold War model has to be changed, because the Cold War--thank God, we won that; we need to win the war we're in now.
I have been a strong supporter of allowing qualifying duty performance since September 11, 2001, to be counted towards early receipt of reti...
the Guard and Reserve retirement initiative, early retirement initiative, that we have been successful at having put in place
To recruit the highest caliber young people and to retain them for careers, during good economic times and bad, it is absolutely critical th...
Don't even think about cutting military pay.
I want to thank all of you for what you do. You're charged with managing the most important aspect of our military, and that's the people an...