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We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.

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Jeb Bush
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: February 11
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