Joe Manchin actually said...

"General Grass, are you comfortable with the National Guard's ability to coordinate efforts and manpower with Federal agencies?"

"we've always been supportive of [foreign military sales] but I think we can up our game a little bit. . . . Maybe in some cases take a look at taking a little bit more risk than we've been willing to ..."

"This path would constitute a rush to failure, place unnecessary risks on our forces, and I could not support it in any respect."

"If we do not get our act together at our ports, then not only are we not going to double our exports, we are going to have a hard time receiving imports with the ships that are going to be coming thro..."