There's been lots of inflation in the ranks over time. We're going to return those billets to two star billets. We're going to shrink the size of our headquarters units. The inflation of military. General, We won World War II with seven four star generals. Shannon, we have 44. Today we have 163 and four star generals. And has it created better outcomes or not? We're challenging a lot of assumptions at the Pentagon to streamline what we do so that we get as many resources as possible to the war fighter. (10:25–10:33)
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