There are always demands to modernize. 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. That, also, has been justified, and will help us be as strong and dominant in the 21st century as we are now. Asked whether the increased number and length of deployments was harming the military's ability to retain qualified troops, Bacon fired back. Well, I think that we have been doing a much better job with managing the deployments.
Military life is very active.
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