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Accountability Quote by Joe Sestak

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“On the aircraft carrier under my command, where the average age of sailors was 19 and a half, you could see accountability in action at all times. You especially saw it when an order was given that a plane about to launch suddenly must be switched out for another and kept on board.”

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

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