06/16/2009
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"With aging equipment."
"I think that the new strategy and now the newest development which gives me more hope than I've had in quite a while."
"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 going to begin a deployment, either end of this year or earl..."
"I would add, again, Secretary and General, that I don't raise this just out of a parochial concern for the 1,800 from Vermont, but for obviously, for everybody who is there."