And so definitionally, and I told this to the 40 of the senators we talked to, and I've said it in recorded interviews almost definitionally, It was not my idea. I couldn't in six weeks have even begun to come up with something as substantive for the army as what I think ATI will end up being. as it continues to roll out. That was General George. It was the Vice Mingus, it was the Sergeant Major of the Army, Weimer. It was the undersecretaries before me. (40:07–40:17)
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Asserts that the Army Transformation Initiative was not his original idea.
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