Mike Lee actually said...

"How important are retirement pensions for recruitment efforts and for retention efforts separately?"

"Changes should not be measured on how much money they save, but instead, the true measure of any change should be whether it improves the way we recruit and/or retain a world-class uniformed force."

"Avoiding difficult choices, in the name of serving our people or for any other reason, would ultimately risk a future in which our men and women could be sent in to harm's way with less than what they..."

"Though well less than half of all military servicemembers will be eligible for this benefit, it is still an important tool for recruitment and retention efforts."