Pat Fallon: “this year's NDAA builds on an outstanding year for our military and ensures our servicemembers are a lethal and ready…”

“this year's NDAA builds on an outstanding year for our military and ensures our servicemembers are a lethal and ready force and that they are going to be a force that is going to be able to project power and will be capable of confronting threats from our southern border to our eastern flank. This NDAA continues to root out the Biden-era policies that detracted from our main goal, which, of course, is winning and fighting our Nation's wars and, even better, deterring, so we don't have to fight them in the first place. DEI is gone. Merit is back. Standards are high. Our servicemen and - women will, once again, be the most highly trained, ready fighting force the world has ever known. In the last year, recruitment and retention soared. As a result, this NDAA gives the services the end strength they need to build and sustain a force equal to any mission. Not to rest on a great year for recruiting, we are expanding access for our military recruiters at secondary schools and other institutions of higher learning. As our men and women in uniform are our priority, the NDAA authorizes a 3.8 percent servicemember raise, and that is much-needed. It also extends special pay authorities to attract and retain the best talent in some of the most critical career fields.”