bonds with the members of your company and your squad that is generally inseparable. any veteran that served years, 40 years later, they always resite to me the most meaningful time was in wh they were that infantry squad. so literally in an outpost as small as this, they might have had 12 soldiers. they rely every man to do their watch. critical situation for him to walk off the post. that s why there s so many levels of betrayal felt by these soldiers because it s so obvious what his actions potentially constituted, which is desertion. e he clearly sought out service in the military. i read that account in rolling stone. he sought out trying to get into the french foreign legion.
the bottom line is when you go through training, boot camp and advanced individual training before you deploy, you build bonds with the members of your company and your squad that is generally inseparable. any veteran that served years, 40 years later, they always resite to me the most meaningful time was in wh they were that infantry squad. so literally in an outpost as small as this, they might have had 12 soldiers. they rely every man to do their watch. critical situation for him to walk off the post. that s why there s so many levels of betrayal felt by these soldiers because it s so obvious what his actions potentially constituted, which is desertion. e he clearly sought out service in the military. i read that account in rolling
economic times, we must do everything we can to ease the transition of the thousands of service members who will come home from war to civilian life. they fought for us. the least we can do is fight for them. [applause] it s now my honor to introduce one of those soldiers who fought in vietnam. senator chuck haigle. he led an infantry squad in vietnam during the bloody fighting following the tet offensive. like millions of our generation he demonstrated bravery, patriotism and heroism on the battlefield. and he also demonstrated that patriotism and bravery and heroism in the life of public
economic times, we must do everything we can to ease the transition of the thousands of service members who will come home from war to civilian life. they fought for us. the least we can do is fight for them. [ applause ] it s now my honor to introduce one of those soldiers who fought in vietnam. senator chuck hagel. he led an infantry squad in vietnam during the bloody fighting following the tet offensive. and like millions of our generation, he demonstrated bravery, patriotism, and heroism on the battlefield. and he also demonstrated that patriotism and that bravery and that heroism in the life of
ago. that s an excellent point. we went to two generations confronting the soviets and warsaw pact. the job these young servicemen and women face in iraq and afghanistan, we talk about the the strategic infantry squad. you have a staff sergeant and nine other young soj eers. they re out there with phenomenal technology. they are tremendous fighters willing to incur casualties. they re asking to be diplomats and builders of institutions. so it s a huge responsibility. and as you know a lot of these troops now are on their third fourth or more combat tours. i ran into a master sergeant on his tenth deployment. we just heard from john and i heard from alice who lost her son on 9/11. all of them bring up now the navy s.e.a.l.s and osama bin