Our military's best asset isn't our fighter jets. It's not our destroyers or our aircraft carriers. It's our service members. But the investments of this committee. The investments of Congress do not reflect that Many of our service members are living in barracks that are not up to standards which compromises their health and their ability to complete their missions. All of us on this committee have seen the horrifying GAO report from the end of 2023. The issue of unsafe barracks is not isolated. It's not a few one off incidents. (00:49–00:57)
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