02/09/2014
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"We go to such extraordinary lengths to protect the lives of our people, and yet by compromising readiness, by compromising morale, by compromising modernization, by compromising training, that is the ..."
"The system itself has proved to be very inefficient."
"If we in Congress do not act, sequestration will return in full in fiscal year 2016, setting our military on a far more dangerous course."
"A sustainable readiness will remain out of reach."