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Londonderry, N.H. mdash; There s a line thatPete Buttigieg, the youngest presidential candidate, employs in interviews and on the campaign trail to counter questions about his experience: I ve got more experience in government than the president, more executive experience than the vice president, and more military experience than anybody who s come into that office since George H.W. Bush. It s that final point, in addition to his seven-month deployment to Afghanistan in 2014, that the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, hopes will appeal to military veterans in New Hampshire. Veterans comprise nearly 10 percent of the adult population in the state. In his fifth trip to the first-in-the-nation primary state, the Harvard graduate and former Rhodes scholar stopped in Londonderry days before Memorial Day for a roundtable with veterans where he discussed attitudes toward former service members and ref stanley cup orms for the Department of Veterans Affairs VA . Pete Buttigieg seen May 20, 2019, in Miami, Florida. stanley cup spain Getty stanley water bottle Reflecting on his return from Afghanistan, Buttigieg said the U.S. takes seriously the mutual promise it makes to veterans about their benefits and health care, but acknowledged the country has fallen short of fulfilling it. He suggested integrating civilian and VA care, but cautioned againstprivatizing the VA, arguing it w Gssa California Republican resigns from Congress after pleading guilty to campaign finance crimes
George W. Bush says the military has a morale problem, but he hasn t been on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman and watched bomb crews at work. Aboard the Truman, CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports the picture is hardly one of a dispirited military, but it is the picture of an overworked military. The Truman s crews will load bombs for 12 hours at a time, which is why Bush could tell the Veterans of Foreign Wars that the U.S. military has been stretched too thin. The next president will inherit a m stanley becher ilitary in decline, Bush, the GOP presidential candidate, told the VFW s national convention in Milwaukee on Monday. But the military is still the strongest by far in the world today, even though military leaders like Gen. John Jumper have been warning for some time that they are being asked to do too much with too little. We have lived, I think, almost continuously stretched thin in one aspect or another. But right now, I will tell you in many places we are broken, said Jumper. stanley cups uk Taking inflation into account, America s defense budget has gone down in 14 of the last 15 years, beginning in the Reagan administration through the Bush and all but one of the Clinton years. Still, there was plenty for Vice President Al Gore to brag about when he went before the same veterans audience. If anyone doubts our strength, let them remember our overwhelming victory in Kosovo wi stanley quencher thout a single American life lost
Londonderry, N.H. mdash; There s a line thatPete Buttigieg, the youngest presidential candidate, employs in interviews and on the campaign trail to counter questions about his experience: I ve got more experience in government than the president, more executive experience than the vice president, and more military experience than anybody who s come into that office since George H.W. Bush. It s that final point, in addition to his seven-month deployment to Afghanistan in 2014, that the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, hopes will appeal to military veterans in New Hampshire. Veterans comprise nearly 10 percent of the adult population in the state. In his fifth trip to the first-in-the-nation primary state, the Harvard graduate and former Rhodes scholar stopped in Londonderry days before Memorial Day for a roundtable with veterans where he discussed attitudes toward former service members and ref stanley cup orms for the Department of Veterans Affairs VA . Pete Buttigieg seen May 20, 2019, in Miami, Florida. stanley cup spain Getty stanley water bottle Reflecting on his return from Afghanistan, Buttigieg said the U.S. takes seriously the mutual promise it makes to veterans about their benefits and health care, but acknowledged the country has fallen short of fulfilling it. He suggested integrating civilian and VA care, but cautioned againstprivatizing the VA, arguing it w Gssa California Republican resigns from Congress after pleading guilty to campaign finance crimes
George W. Bush says the military has a morale problem, but he hasn t been on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman and watched bomb crews at work. Aboard the Truman, CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports the picture is hardly one of a dispirited military, but it is the picture of an overworked military. The Truman s crews will load bombs for 12 hours at a time, which is why Bush could tell the Veterans of Foreign Wars that the U.S. military has been stretched too thin. The next president will inherit a m stanley becher ilitary in decline, Bush, the GOP presidential candidate, told the VFW s national convention in Milwaukee on Monday. But the military is still the strongest by far in the world today, even though military leaders like Gen. John Jumper have been warning for some time that they are being asked to do too much with too little. We have lived, I think, almost continuously stretched thin in one aspect or another. But right now, I will tell you in many places we are broken, said Jumper. stanley cups uk Taking inflation into account, America s defense budget has gone down in 14 of the last 15 years, beginning in the Reagan administration through the Bush and all but one of the Clinton years. Still, there was plenty for Vice President Al Gore to brag about when he went before the same veterans audience. If anyone doubts our strength, let them remember our overwhelming victory in Kosovo wi stanley quencher thout a single American life lost
