07/14/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"Thank you again for your continued support of our brave airmen and their supportive families."
"there's no better recruiter than a veteran who goes back to his or her home community, and is proud of what they did."
"I think so much of it comes from the improvised explosive devices, where people are inside vehicles and you have this echoing impact that a regular blast, in other wars, did not really experience."
"We have so many people, who are now contracting force, who are doing, at a minimum, quasi-military functions."