The 2011 strategic guidance, the effects of sequestration and the planned withdrawal of the U.S. forces from Afghanistan place a significant pressure on all our military components, but particularly the Army.
Bordallo highlights pressures on military due to strategic guidance and budget cuts.
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The system needs, as you said, overhauling. There is no question about it, whether you go to privatization, or whatever. And it should not be a monopoly.
I think it is fair to ask if the Army is, in fact, just creating more overhead that will further slow an already cumbersome process.
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