Anthony Principi
Anthony Principi
Anthony Joseph Principiwas the fourth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was appointed by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2001, and resigned on January 26, 2005. He is currently a lobbyist for Pfizer and chairman of QTC Management, a company that works on contracts for the Veterans Affairs Department...
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I know of no mission more worthwhile than serving the men and women who have so honorably served their nation,
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My challenge as chairman of the 2005 BRAC Commission was to ensure that I and the members of the commission understood the role IT played in the transformation strategy that served as the foundation of the Defense Department's base closure and realignment proposals.
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it is now time for me to move on to fresh opportunities and different challenges.
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Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.
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will positively shape our military for decades to come.
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Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.
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Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.
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Why are we abandoning the region closest to the sea? I question the wisdom of doing that.
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While we listened carefully to the input from the local communities, military value was our top priority.
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The proof is in the pudding when they come home. Will we have the data about their health, will we know where they were stationed, what their unit deployments were? I will need that information.
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We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.
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would be a tragic mistake for the nation.
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I fail to see at this point how you could arrive at the figures they arrived at. We're going through this effort to save money from excess capacity to modernize forces. If the savings aren't there, and it costs money to do this on top of all the economic upheaval, why are we doing this?
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Today it is estimated we probably have about 25 percent excess capacity in our public shipyards,