04/16/2013
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"The other thing I would like for the record-- I had a conversation this morning with the Admiral, that 84 percent of his incoming recruits are from military families."
"we are doing these drawdowns based upon decisions about budgets made in 2011 before ISIS, before Syria, before North Korea nuclear, before the South China Sea, before the Ukraine."
"The largest question before this committee is, are we recruiting and retaining the people that we need?"
"The retention is so important because if we could move the average retention out a year, that would be a significant savings across the board because of the training costs."