03/09/2009
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"I am concerned that the code used to activate them does not provide the full range of benefits, health care, education, retirement as for other enlisted levels."
"It is not in our interest, it is not in liberty's interest to have this continue without an equal response, and the West's response is very anemic compared to what is coming out of the Russian."
"For women with children, it just seems to me there ought to be something going on at DOD that would help those who have so nobly served our Nation."
"I hope, Mr. Secretary, with that endorsement, that you will find ways to broaden it, to fully utilize it, particularly in those places which are so much at risk right now."