Right. I understand, but you could have a totally different allocation among the Services if the Secretary of Defense, for instance, were to decide--is that a correct assumption--from this statutory ceiling.
Senator Webb discusses the flexibility of flag officer allocations by the Secretary of Defense.
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I think that the two most important factors right now from my own personal point of view would be to get as many people from the international community to interact with the average citizen on the street in a positive way...
My impression was this is not the situation you would have in many of these other historic evolutions, where you have the desire of the people on top simply to perpetuate a system of the past.
I would say it has been one of the great pleasures of being in the Senate, to have been able to get this legislation into place.
This is a particular problem in the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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