It’s Time To Reclaim Peace, Through Strength Again
By Tommy Marquez
October 31, 2024
The next POTUS must place a mission-based focus on our Military and Veterans
The American people have been through almost an entire presidential election season at this point. We have watched three major debates between the president and vice-presidential candidates. We are now less than three weeks away from election day, and we have yet to have any conversations about serious policy questions that directly affect millions of veterans and active-duty service members every single day of their lives. Our military service members, veterans and their families deserve better than this.
There’s no other way to put this: our military and VA both need change — urgently. Readiness levels are currently at historic and troubling lows. Recruitment numbers are down. Decades of conflict around the world, ideologically driven policy decisions and bureaucratic mismanagement on the home front have certainly taken their toll and need to be addressed.
Meanwhile, more than a decade after the wait times scandal that rocked the veterans community, the VA is still in dire need of improvement. Over the past year, the department is still beset with personnel and staffing problems, a bonus mismanagement scandal, and an inability to provide veterans access to needed health care services.
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