10/29/2013
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"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 civili..."
"We insist on the 50-50, and another president did as well, because we are in a BCA cap environment."
"The notion that the U.S. President is saying we want to take Iraqi oil will make them, if they take that seriously, a little bit skittish about us staying."
"I think it was a mistake to go on it."