Daniel P. Driscoll

And what peace through strength fundamentally means is the more aggressive and the more pre-violent they can be, the less likely you actually have to use them to do those acts because our adversaries are so afraid of them.

And

They have done—the president and secretary have done a remarkable job of resetting the culture, in my opinion, quickly.

And then a lot of the things we in the Army have done with their air cover have been a couple months into being here with General Randy George, who's our chief of staff, and he's just awesome.

I live a couple houses from him.

We spend a ton of time together.

But we did something called the Army Transformation Initiative, which was essentially cutting

48 billion dollars of spending on a bunch of stupid shit that we just didn't need anymore that for all sorts of reasons we were still buying and reallocating that those 48 billion dollars over the next five years to things we actually needed so those were like two buckets of things we did another bucket was the army has kind of preposterously given away things like its own right to repair our own equipment

which is just sinful.

So, what that practically means, Sean, is you'd have these two $3 million pieces of equipment sitting on the sidelines for a year at a time.

It was an $8 part that we knew how to 3D print, but we had given away our own right to repair that equipment.

And so, basically, this ATI forces us to take back that right.

And the other thing that we did kind of in those early months was

cut headquarters.

So I'm sure you've seen this, but we have so many human beings, so many soldiers that sit in the Pentagon and sit in our headquarters formations and just are wasting their life away doing what they didn't want to sign up to do.

And so we're pushing them back out to the unit.

So we cut down some of our four-star headquarters.

We've gotten rid of a bunch of three stars and two stars and are just pushing them back out to the formation.

Well, so specifically what we were doing is cut to reallocate.

And so this was not intended to be a money-saving exercise per se.