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Madeleine Bordallo: “Why would Congress consider any potential changes to recruiting and retention incentives such as military retirement and…”

On the recordOctober 26, 2011
Why would Congress consider any potential changes to recruiting and retention incentives such as military retirement and health care, or reductions to essential training accounts, when the military departments can't identify the cost of what they pay for contracted services?
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Madeleine Bordallo
Democratic · Guam

Editor's note · Context

Bordallo questions Congress's consideration of changes to military incentives without cost clarity.

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