Again, it has the 20% pay raise for our junior enlisted that I've been pushing for. Hopefully this passes and we can get this through the Senate and have the president sign into law. Right now, our troops are making less than minimum wage, less than our fast food workers. and it's a real challenge, obviously, the privilege of meeting with some of our federal wildland firefighters. They were a big supporter of our fire weather Development act that we got passed a couple weeks ago. (01:58–02:04)
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