From a joint press release:
Press reports indicate that the leaders of the uniformed services are recommending that the Bush Administration increase the endstrength of the Army and Marines. Given the strain that our military is currently operating under, it is imperative that we act quickly to meet this need. As members of the Senate Armed Services committee, we have long called for increasing the size of the Army and Marines and have sponsored legislation to increase the endstrength of the Army over the next several years. It is critically important that the Department of Defense include an increase in Army and Marine endstrength in the Pentagon budget. We look forward to continue working with incoming Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin and our Armed Services colleagues in the 110th Congress to make increasing Army and Marine endstrength a priority.
Both senators have been calling for a larger force for some time now.
