I oppose President Obama's initial request for supplemental funding for the surge for an additional 30,000 troops because I had questions about our strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan that I felt went unanswered.
Tsongas expressed opposition to Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan due to unanswered strategic questions.
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These actions are reprehensible, harmful to our military and our national security, and detrimental to not just service women, but to all service members and to the culture of our Armed Forces.
I have been concerned about the increasing rate of physiological events being experienced by F/A-18 aviators in the Navy.
Well, it is a daunting set of challenges in the face of very real fiscal constraints. And none of those things is inexpensive.
I appreciate, Admiral Moran, your talking about the manual backup oxygen system, but I think we all would be concerned by the fact that you are asking a potentially incapacitated pilot to sort of help himself out of this.
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