Your job there is now to be a statesman and it's to be an ambassador. Basically you're working in the Pentagon with Congress trying to get good programs out to troops. So I created the Army's electronic warfare program because we were getting hit with IEDs over in Iraq. and I didn't want to see any more maimed troops. You spent one day in Walter Lee and we've been hit with them. (19:17–19:24)
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