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You decided to give the prime of your

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life to something bigger than yourself ,

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to raising your right hand and doing

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something difficult , being held to a

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higher standard . Be proud of that .

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You should be . It's the best part of

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the job because I look out at these

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eyes , and these eyes are the eyes of

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deterrence . And then our adversaries

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have to think twice and say today is

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not the day . The United States is

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blessed with the strongest and most

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powerful military in the history of the

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world . There's no military like our

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military , not even close , but above

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all , we have America's military . It's

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the best people . It's all about the

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people ultimately you have to work all

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of that fancy stuff that we make better

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than anybody else . We do make the best

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weapons , but if you don't have the

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right people to operate those weapons ,

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they don't mean much . Despite that ,

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as commander in chief , I never forget

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that our ultimate strength does not

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come from equipment . It comes from the

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men and women of the rank and file .