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On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.
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Ash Carter
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Ash Carter acknowledges the effectiveness and limitations of the up-or-out promotion system.

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We are also quadrupling the European Reassurance Initiative, which allows us to do more with our NATO partners there.

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I agree with you, also, about the Assad regime. It's a reason why Assad can't be part of the future of that country.

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I agree with everything I said then, including the need to do what we've done this past year.

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