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Derrick Van Orden: “Less than 2% of the DoD budget is spent on SoF operations.”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Van Orden Questions Witnesses on SOF & USSOCOM Resource Priorities in Intel & Special Ops Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 01:55

Very well. Thank you. And I'm sorry, I'm remiss for not recognizing the master chief and CSM here. Thanks for coming here, boys. Good to see you. Less than 2% of the DoD budget is spent on SoF operations. Correct. Everyone here, I think everyone, at least over here, has done joint combined exercise for training. Sometimes we would call that training tomorrow's enemies today. (01:55–02:00)

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Asserts that less than 2% of the Department of Defense budget is allocated to Special Operations Forces operations.

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