Don Bacon: “I want to thank all the witnesses for being here today and for your commitment to the health and readiness of America's…”

I think he was being honest. And I think he was setting maybe false expectations...

I think it's better to acknowledge, hey, this is hard on the families, it's hard on the service members.

I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.

They’re low-IQ strategists.