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On the recordFebruary 7, 2017
if every year you are losing depot workers to retirement and attrition, how are you going to be able to increase readiness if you need more funding and end strength, yet are unable to hire more civilians to work?
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine questions the impact of workforce attrition on military readiness.

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