06/16/2021
https://www.congress.gov...
"last year, we received testimony from DOD that more than half of the 300 local educational agencies serving military children were not meeting academic standards in reading/ language arts and/or math."
"the idea of drawing the Army down by 40,000, the Navy, 9,000, the Marines, 16,000, the Air Force, 10,000, is that a wise decision right now, given the uncertainties of where the world is going?"
"We're having, I think, an unsustainable increase in healthcare cost in DOD."
"if we don't do something, as Secretary Gates said, at some point, it will fall of its own weight."