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Rob Wittman: “But asserting, like Ms. Hammack did, that somehow that tomorrow our men and women in uniform are going to get that…”

On the recordMarch 2, 2015
But asserting, like Ms. Hammack did, that somehow that tomorrow our men and women in uniform are going to get that training because we are going to start to close bases I think is a bridge too far.
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Rob Wittman
Republican · Virginia

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Wittman challenges the assumption that base closures will immediately benefit military training.

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