I can look at the data generated by the Defense Department itself some 40 percent of our Army helicopters not combat ready, the fact that money is now being drained out of the procurement budget to support a lot of the deployments overseas, the fact that the force has gotten as small as it has, ... Clearly, some reductions were justified with the end of the Cold War. But we have gone way beyond that now.
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