So every deployment was a movement to green, a race to green so that you could wrap up your deployment and say you did. You did the right thing. Everything's on track, sir. My promotion's good to go. But Everybody's lying. Everybody's making up. Or if they're not lying, they're just naive. which many of us were for a long time thinking that improvement was happening. And then the next guy came in, did no better and did the best he or she could. (42:40–42:46)
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Asserts that military personnel were either lying or naive about the progress in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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