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Jack Reed: “Sixty-six percent. What are the two or three key steps that you have to take, you think, to get from what it is today to…”

On the recordMarch 8, 2017
Sixty-six percent. What are the two or three key steps that you have to take, you think, to get from what it is today to that 66 percent?
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Inquiring about steps to improve Army readiness to 66 percent.

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