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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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