Press Gaggle with Secretary Mattis

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SECRETARY JAMES N. MATTIS: Yes. Yes, understand. Understand. (Laughter.) Good to see you all, and thank — for those of you who have been here for the last year or the last 15 years.

I took Bob Burns on a trip down to Gitmo and Mayport, Lejeune and Bragg. Took the small plane. Then the reason why is I didn’t want to show up and “doomsday” and — excuse me — and basically have troops who would otherwise have been on leave and everything to — it’s a big group coming and a lot of press — and everybody show up.

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