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Rob Wittman: “Our problem, of course, is that we have to balance readiness now for what now versus readiness 10 years from now.”

On the recordApril 23, 2013
Our problem, of course, is that we have to balance readiness now for what now versus readiness 10 years from now.
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Rob Wittman
Republican · Virginia

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Wittman discusses the challenge of balancing immediate and future military readiness.

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