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Pete Hegseth: “We're looking at increasing the top line of the entire force…”

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I mean, if you're investing in the shipbuilding industrial base, the defense industrial base, housing and barracks, all of that increase troop pay, We're looking at increasing the top line of the entire force by 50,000 troops. That's a, that's an investment into the future. So I would acknowledge that a lot of this does have follow on cost, but some of it is something we're going to pay for now and benefit from in the future. (43:02–43:07)

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Asserts that there is a plan to increase the military force by 50,000 troops.

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