05/08/2013
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"I must be counted among those members with serious reservations about the budget request and the reductions in force."
"This budget offers no apology for the program reductions that go to the heart of our military capability."
"The E-7 with 28 years does not earn more retirement because he and she served longer and sacrificed. How should that be considered again as fair?"
"I believe we have more flag officers than we did in 1990, yet we have a fraction of the force."