Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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We're looking at ways to improve the quality of life, ... Beyond pay and retirement, one is medical care, and that's a box that is yet to be checked, but it's something that the secretary and the chairman are working on, and I would hope that we'd have something to say about medical care relatively soon. But that's a work in progress.
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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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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.
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The pay is now going up about 3.5, 3.7 percent a year, more than the rate of inflation, and that's built into the five-year plan. So pay is improving.
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we have increased military pay and benefits and increased money for arms procurement and training.
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indicative of increased allied pressure on the very center, the central nerve system of the regime that controls military and security forces.
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In Bosnia, for instance, they play a crucial role in setting up these joint commissions that bring Army people and local people together to talk about governance issues, providing humanitarian aid.
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It's something that's on their mind every minute of the day when they're on duty and frequently when they're off duty as well.
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Everybody now believes that that force is probably too small and that a larger force will be required to go in as a peacekeeping force.
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The Air Force is in the process of taking down all its tents at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia because the airmen are moving into dormitories, and therefore these tents could possibly be available for use in Albania or Macedonia.
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they have to follow rules that will keep them farther away from civilian planes, so they don't trigger this system.
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These tankers will immediately help increase the tempo of air operations, allow us to keep planes on station for longer periods of time and increase the number of the hours of the day in which we're actually flying over or near Yugoslavia and Kosovo.
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This is a very high-priority program. We are working very hard ... to get the president the information he needs from the technical side to make a decision sometime this summer.
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The FEST Team, which stands for Foreign Emergency Security Team, has also arrived. And that involves State Department personnel, FBI and Justice Department personnel, and others, about 50 people,