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Daniel Driscoll: “We ended up saving the taxpayer $2 billion right now in real…”

Featuring: Daniel Driscoll, Republican | United States Secretary of the Army | National

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The Changing Character of War | Pennsylvania Defense & Innovation Summit

Published | Video Starts at 32:28

We had a little section where they could tell us that their kid was going through something where they needed to stay in one spot and try to do it compassionately. But We ended up saving the taxpayer $2 billion right now in real money, $2 billion a year. And that is one way that we earn back trust. The other way we earn back trust is when we build new projects and build hard things and build new helicopters and tanks. (32:28–32:35)

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Asserts that the army saved taxpayers $2 billion annually through job matching.

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