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Mhm .

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Senior leaders from the army made the

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trip to Afghanistan this week to inform

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the troops . Sergeant Major of the Army .

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Raymond Chandler , the third , spent

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more than an hour talking about tough

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issues like combat stress . We got a

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challenge in our army . You talk about

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phDS doctors , There's a very small

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amount of folks that have the

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qualifications to be trained , licensed ,

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social workers , psychologists . So

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we're going to continue to try and gain

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more people into the service or to

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contract or to hire civilians to do

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that . But right now it's going to be

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leader involvement . That's really

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gonna help us . Sergeant Major Chandler

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also talked about army wide budget cuts

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and the way forward in the high tech

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Sergeant Trevor Pedro bagram Airfield ,

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Afghanistan .