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Mike Rogers: “If you take away that meritocracy of what happens, you lower…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Secretary Heather Wilson and Representative Mike Rogers on Civil-Military Relations

Published | Video Starts at 26:10

And they did it. And so what you see here, I think was something that is not consistent with what military service is. If you take away that meritocracy of what happens, you lower standards, you do other things in order to get it to look right, it will not work for the United States military. And that's what I think was getting out. My son was just got out of military service and I've gotten to know all of his friends across happens to be in the Navy. (26:10–26:21)

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Asserts that removing meritocracy and lowering standards will not work for the U.S. military.

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