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We have challenges to be sure, but the military has been and remains the largest meritocracy in the world. We promote, we advance and we select based on your knowledge, your skills, your attributes and the content of your character. We are stronger together. Diversity builds a better team and readiness.

— Mark Milley

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Equality and opportunity are matters of military readiness, not just political correctness.

House Armed Services Committee (2020)

If you can't get in shape in 24 months, then maybe you should hit the road.

The nature of war is not going to change. It's still a political act. It's a decision by humans to impose their political will on their opponent by the use of violence.

West Point graduation address (2022)

You are what makes the United States undaunted by the difficult, and motivated by the impossible.

West Point graduation address (2022)

We who wear the cloth of our nation understand that cohesion is a force multiplier. Divisiveness leads to defeat. As one of our famous presidents said, 'a house divided does not stand.'

House Armed Services Committee (2020)

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