Notes:BC1.wklystd.Breaking Trust
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2015/02/22 User:Jeff
The following appeared in the February 16, 2015 edition of the Weekly Standard magazine.
Breaking Trust
Feb 16, 2015, Vol. 20, No. 22 • By GARY SCHMITT and THOMAS DONNELLY
- At what point do we--the institution and our nation--lose our soldiers' trust? The trust that we will provide them the right resources--the training and equipment--to properly prepare them and lead them into harm's way. Trust that we will appropriately take care of our soldiers, our civilians and their families, who so selflessly sacrifice so much.
This was the question Army chief of staff Gen. Raymond Odierno posed to the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28, and it's one that expresses a point of view rarely considered in Washington: Budgets are moral documents' they express our government's priorities and what we value as a nation.
