American - Soldier | January 2, 1942 -
The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.
Hugh Shelton
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I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.
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Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.
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Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.
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Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.
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We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.
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Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.
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Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.
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They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
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There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.
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The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.
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Our people are working overtime - I say our people; our federal agencies in this regard - and that I'm confident that the way that you can stop this and make Americans the most protected for this is to take it to the terrorist groups.
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