Daniel Inouye

When I tell that to the Puerto Rican Americans, their eyes light up and they say: My God, we had our men in there?

Are you considering expanding the military if we find ourselves having to involve ourselves in all these activities?

But not the new brigades?

We must relieve the stress on this force, and we believe our plan is designed to do that.

Are you confident that you can meet your goals without changing any standards in recruiting or retention?

I am pleased that the Army is responding to the stress of overseas deployments by temporarily increasing end strength by 30,000.

However, these ongoing operations have strained our troops.

I suspect that these concerns will again be the subject of debate in Congress.

Time and time again, the extraordinary ability of our men and women in uniform and all the people who work to support them has been demonstrated.

I commend everyone who has played an important role in these operations.

I am glad that the chairman brought up the matter of shortfalls in military medicine and health care because in all the studies that we have looked at men and women in uniform are more concerned about health care than pay.

With all this, would you find that an active duty soldier fighting together with a Reserve soldier side by side, one getting full benefits, the other question mark, is not quite fair?

Does the administration have any exit plan for a time when we might be reducing these temporary forces?

The following two words are ones that we hear quite often in the political arena: 'exit plan.'

I think the general view is that we will be able to ramp down our forces over time.

It is a pleasure to join my colleague and friend Chairman Stevens as we begin this review.

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