The adjutants general all agree that we need to be at 350,000 ... and indications are that this year we can get there again, so in our view that has to be funded up front.

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We're not broken. But we were definitely being stretched; and if we'd had to sustain [such] high levels for another year or so, we'd have reached a broken state.

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You certainly don't want to send someone in and lose them also. So getting that quick analysis is important when you're talking life and limb.

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