Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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need to embrace, and utilize, the latest technology for force protection
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Obviously we are gratified that CNN retracted a report that we believe was not accurate,
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Obviously, it's up to Indonesia to provide for the security of its own people in East Timor, as well as United Nations workers and other foreigners in East Timor,
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Obviously, if we have a series of tests that are deemed to be failures we couldn't say that this was ready to deploy.
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The crews of the new ships can help do some of the work that's required to keep the ship afloat and to deal with the damage to the hull,
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We don't know why they have moved these troops or exactly what they plan to do with these troops that they have marshaled around the borders.
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We don't know whether it'll be twice as large or three times as large or 50 percent as large as we initially planned.
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We are making progress against military infrastructure, and we are reducing the Yugoslav ability to sustain operations.
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The Defense Department has sent out two advisories to military installations and commanders around the world,
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It's a sort of a self-contained, quickly movable team that can go in to an emergency situation abroad, set up a communications, set up an operations center, do some of the initial investigative work.
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It's a tragedy for everyone, particularly the families, the ski area, the cable car operators and the Marines as well, ... set out to determine culpability in a fair, open and thorough way.
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It's required sharp increases in pay and benefits, and I think those have been appropriate, particularly in light of the recruiting problems that we were having a year ago, and the quality of life problems that have been eliminated. And I think that we've worked -- that Secretary (William) Cohen and President Clinton have worked very hard to increase defense investment, as I said, by 40 percent, from $43 billion to $60 billion a year ... That, also, has been justified, and will help us be as strong and dominant in the 21st century as we are now.
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It's unsaid because that's not true. That's not the plan.
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They (Paramount Pictures) have a right to make the movies any way they want to make them. We pay attention to how they portray the military.