Patrick Leahy actually said...

I know you both know the 86th Mountain Brigade, that's upward of 1,800 very proud citizen soldiers from the Vermont Army National Guard are ...

We've written to you on the question of more transparency of where equipment goes--we appropriate the money for it, and we kind of lose sigh...

What I have been concerned about are the increased use of roadside bombs.

the Federal Government could not get it out or act quickly enough.