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Mike Rogers: “The number one recruiting area for the military is if you…”

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 41:54

But when we started moving bases through brac, we had huge swaths of America that is no longer exposed to the military in any way at all. And matter of fact, The number one recruiting area for the military is if you have a relative that has been in the military. right? So that's not the military recruiting. That's your relative saying, hey, no, this is a good thing, you should do it. (41:54–42:01)

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Asserts that having a family member in the military is the top factor for military recruitment.

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