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Tim Kaine: “We appreciate that you serve, but in a day of an all-volunteer military, where only 1 percent of adults serve, they do…”

On the recordApril 16, 2013
We appreciate that you serve, but in a day of an all-volunteer military, where only 1 percent of adults serve, they do not understand what a gunnery sergeant does or what an E-5 does.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Kaine highlights the public's lack of understanding of military roles in an all-volunteer force.

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