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Daniel Driscoll: “We have 250,000 civilians. I think we have in the army, we…”

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

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Breaking Calcified Bureaucracy with Daniel P. Driscoll, Secretary of the U.S. Army | The Agile CEO

Published | Video Starts at 09:50

And so you had people who have 35, 40 year careers and have said no or done literally nothing. The vast majority of those careers, I mean, We have 250,000 civilians. I think we have in the army, we have 35,000 that help us buy and repair our stuff. I mean, it's just, that's a lot of people. The numbers are staggering. And then if you look at the politicians who allocate the dollars and you look at all the people on their staff, it's actually not incentivized. (09:50–09:58)

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Asserts that the Army employs 250,000 civilians, with 35,000 involved in procurement and maintenance.

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