Chuck Hagel: “Maintaining personnel critical technical skills will be an increasingly important challenge for DOD.”

We are in a different situation today, in what the President has laid out to the American people as to what his objectives are.

It is a measurement. But I don't think it is the measurement. I mean, I was in a war with a lot of body counts every day. We lost everyone.

There's a perception that it is the military's responsibility to fix the problem. Problems are not fixed by militaries.

There will be consequences. There will be repercussions.