03/13/2014
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"we are not currently providing our Navy with the resources it needs to do what we ask"
"the resources we have been allocating to that critical function of government have been woefully inadequate"
"If Congress is to address the obstacles that successive cuts in defense spending have posed, we need a clear, unadulterated view of the challenges our forces are facing."
"Every service branch we know today is suffering from readiness deficits"