Joe Manchin actually said...

"It is important that we protect these investments in the readiness accounts from any misguided cuts."

"I have a hard time explaining why we do this, and it seems to me with a rapidly changing world that our military is not changing with it."

"It is important that we take a step back and assess the current state of our military force and the threats that we face at home and abroad."

"What allowed us to do that was air supremacy, the ability to project power onto land. That is increasingly challenged now."