Rep. Mike Garcia: "Our Military Preparedness Is At A Relatively All-Time Low"

Representative Mike Garcia joined Fox News last night to speak on the United States military’s level of preparedness. During the segment, Rep. Garcia detailed the numerous issues that are resulting in all-time low recruitment and retention rates.

Representative Garcia said the following:

“We’re at relatively all-time low readiness levels in terms of what our war fighters are capable of doing. Retention and recruiting is the lowest it’s been since the 1970s. It’s not just low pay, most of these patriots will still serve if we pay them $21,000 per year like we do, which is still significantly lower than what they deserve. It’s not the operational tempo alone, they will go on deployments three to four times during a five-year period and not complain about it. 

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