Mark Warner: “The concern I personally have had--and I think shared by some of our colleagues--is almost less from a fiscal standpoint…”

“The concern I personally have had--and I think shared by some of our colleagues--is almost less from a fiscal standpoint and more from the fact that when you put a unit together and you bring into that, say, Regular Army unit a guardsman and reservist-- the Senator well understands that young people exchange with each other their own pay and background and one thing and another--and suddenly, you have two sergeants, equally competent to operate that tank or artillery piece or Humvee, whatever the case may be, and one is getting this bump up in pay from, again, the Federal Government as opposed to the State and the other is not, it causes a friction. This is the main concern I have. I just wonder to what extent my colleague has thought through that issue.”