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MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams August 20, 2019 03:52:00

Have a dozen combat deployments. and, you know, i remind people there s over 60,000 killed and wounded in the u.s. armed forces in iraq and afghanistan. so it s been an unbelievable commitment. they re up to it. i think they ll stay in the fight as long as they re asked to. to the footprint in afghanistan is now way down. it s around 20,000 nato forces. but it s been a display of courage and commitment, the likes of which a country has rarely seen. and also let our viewers know, if the united states gets out, does that mean everybody follows suit? i cannot imagine anybody in their right mind staying. the united states is the load bearing institution in this war. it s our helicopter, our air force, our hospitals, our communications, our intelligence. the tier one special operations forces there who are in combat every night includes ourunit. ....

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MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams August 20, 2019 06:51:00

Tell our viewers how unusual the pace of deployments has been for our armed forces given the fact that we ve been at it for 18 years. well, it s remarkable. you know, i don t think there s been anything like this since world war ii, which was an open-ended commitment. 16 million people in the armed forces. the entire country was wrapped up in the war and committed to it, but now we ve got a very small essentially cadre, 1% of the population fighting our wars. many of these young men and women have has and the senior ncos and the lieutenant colonels have a dozen combat deployments. and, you know, i remind people there s over 60,000 killed and wounded in the u.s. armed forces in iraq and afghanistan. so it s been an unbelievable commitment. they re up to it. i think they ll stay in the fight as long as they re asked to. to the footprint in afghanistan is now way down. ....

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MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams August 20, 2019 08:51:00

Sacrifice, the courage in many ways of all of those troops. just for a little context here, something i think about a lot but we don t think to say often enough. tell our viewers how unusual the pace of deployments has been for our armed forces given the fact that we ve been at it for 18 years. well, it s remarkable. you know, i don t think there s been anything like this since world war ii, which was an open-ended commitment. 16 million people in the armed forces. the entire country was wrapped up in the war and committed to it, but now we ve got a very small essentially cadre, 1% of the population fighting our wars. many of these young men and women have has and the senior ncos and the lieutenant colonels have a dozen combat deployments. and, you know, i remind people there s over 60,000 killed and wounded in the u.s. armed forces in iraq and afghanistan. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190318:11:52:00

Let me ask you, the both of you, actually but you first. in looking at this issue and opening up our military engagements around the world you would have to get into the fact that we have special forces, special operation troops in latin america, south america, africa, all over the world. are you prepared to put everything on the table in terms of what we re trying to achieve here? well, most of those forces are actually not operating under the 2001 amendment. some are operating one title x or working with the cia, operating under title 50. if you have this debate in public doesn t mean you have to expose confidential or secret operations and endanger those operations over time. what we re focused on are these large scale deployments in place like afghanistan and syria which going back to the earlier point richard made about deployments in germany and south korea which should be examined, these are fundamentally different and these are combat deployments. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190203:09:47:00

1993 when the combat exclusion was lifted, i was 15 years old, and i didn t quite have an idea of how big of an impact that policy change would make, and obviously captain mariner and her contemporaries have a lot to do with that decision and if you look at the female aviators that took part in the flyover today, we all have multiple combat deployments and all because of women like captain mariner and joellen here and the other contemporaries that paved the way for us and broken down the barriers. joellen, i want to talk with you, i asked stacy about this, what was it like for you to witness this all female flyover there, to honor your comrade and your colleague in the navy? well, today could not have gone any more perfectly. the weather was perfect. the entire community turned out for this event. there were people from the community parked all alongside the road. they have been parked there for a couple of hours waiting for ....

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