Political Quotes

“But my concern comes from my background as being a former Army officer and now a reservist and having friends and colleagues who are in the uniformed services of our country, and in this book that I have had a chance to start going through by a colleague from the other body he mentions this: Concerns include the corrosion and readiness that results from the high level of operational tempo, increasing depot level backlogs, underfunded quality of life for military personnel, underfunded manpower strength, manpower turbulence and insecurity, underfunded base maintenance and repair, underfunded equipment modernization, underfunded training and excessive reliance on simulation, underfunded major equipment life cycles, underfunded munition stocks, excessive reliance on emerging but unrealized technology, the funding of operations at the expense of readiness and the expenditure of savings before they are realized.”