We owe it to your moms and dads, your grandmas and grandpas to only send the very best people off to foreign conflicts. And that is why we care so much about standards. You've heard our Secretary of the army, our Secretary of War, you've heard the President of the United States. If you listen to anything that they've said over the last few months, they talk a lot about preparing the army and the whole military for the age of modern warfare because it's changed a lot. We've got drones now. We've got cyber warfare. We've got satellites in space that are as important to the modern war fighter as anything as any rifle or tank or airplane was 20 or 30 years ago. (17:14–17:32)
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Asserts that military leadership is focused on preparing for modern warfare.
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