He's lost his office. He's lost his staff. And he's now basically a rank-and-file member who has a lot of friends and will still have influence.

Basically the DOD just, without any hesitation, said, This is not due to their experience in the Gulf War. And so the DOD was just totally in denial.

We got elected basically by saying we would live by a higher moral standard and I don't think recently we have,

The rank-and-file has made it clear that they want to keep on striking. We'll keep on picketing.

Basically, you die earlier and spend more time disabled if you're an American rather than a member of most other advanced countries.

Sounds to me that the rank and file players need to be a lot more vehement in terms of changing the system so that it does reflect positively on them.