Joseph J. Heck: “I have always been a big believer in an All-Volunteer Force.”

I can tell you for the five years I have been on this committee, that is the most moving testimony I have heard.

For those of us that serve voluntarily in any capacity, being the military or any other--the Peace Corps or any other public service--we do it voluntarily because of the common goal and interest and principle that binds us as a country.

Civic education provides the foundational basis that every American must have in order to fully comprehend his or her individual role in achieving the collective security of our Nation.

I find it concerning that in light of what has happened on January 6 and finding that a number of our military personnel have been associated with white supremacist ideology, that we would somehow confuse weeding out those individuals who…