Andrew P. Hunter: “We said, let us take money from lesser priorities because we are in a shooting war. And the Republican majority said…”

“We said, let us take money from lesser priorities because we are in a shooting war. And the Republican majority said this: We must redirect that money into the battlefield for force protection for our troops, for ammunition for our troops, and for surveillance capabilities so that we can see these IEDs and we can see the bad guys when they get close to our troops. So, no, we did not say, let us take that and put that off the operational military and put that into a retirement plan, as good as that might be; we said, we know our retired folks are worried about the troops. We focus that money on theater. I would just say to my friend, that is where we have to focus the extra dollars, on the theater in the shooting war, and let us win it.”