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Robert Gates: Illiteracy can cost lives in combat and renders the police ineffective in providing basic public security functions.

On the recordFebruary 16, 2011
Illiteracy can cost lives in combat and renders the police ineffective in providing basic public security functions.
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Robert Gates
Republican · Texas

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Gates highlights the critical impact of illiteracy on combat and policing.

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