Derrick Van Orden: “The morale [of the military] is horrible, historically low…”

“You know, we voted on the ndaa, and there's a lot of provisions in there to try to reverse what Biden has done to our military over the last four years. The morale [of the military] is horrible, historically low recruiting. Our material readiness for naval vessels. You being a naval officer, you understand this nerd has been. It's just. It's terrible.” (01:24–01:29)

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