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Jim Webb: “I can tell you, it was 97 percent, during the Vietnam era.”

On the recordApril 12, 2011
I can tell you, it was 97 percent, during the Vietnam era.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Webb highlights the high percentage of honorable discharges during the Vietnam era.

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