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Mike Garcia: “On our current recruitment and retention trajectory, we will…”

Featuring: Mike Garcia, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 27

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Mike Garcia: Why I Am Concerned For Our Enlisted Troops

Published | Video Starts at 07:14

We can have stealth bombers, nuclear submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles, sexy fighter jets, hypersonic weapons and the most advanced satellites up in space. But On our current recruitment and retention trajectory, we will still lose a war against a peer threat like China. And we will still lose a two front war against near peer adversaries. And with the most lethal arsenal in the world. We are still not secure unless we take care of our troops. (07:14–07:21)

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Asserts that the current recruitment and retention trajectory will lead to losing a war against China.

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