Right now, our troops like I said, they start off making $12 an hour. Generations of Americans have been willing to serve our country for that little money. Okay. The problem we also have, though, is that We have record low readiness levels. We have outdated technology, we have high operational tempo, and lots of deployments. We're leaving our troops at overseas for too long and in many cases, for not the right reasons. (55:47–55:49)
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