That is what you wake up to every morning. It is what my wife and I think of when we go visit hospitals on the weekend. And so providing our people w… - Ash Carter

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That is what you wake up to every morning. It is what my wife and I think of when we go visit hospitals on the weekend. And so providing our people with all the support they can, you can possibly give them. And that does not always come naturally to this place, which is thinking in budgets and thinking in the future. You always have to remember that they are in danger.

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About Ash Carter

Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter (September 24, 1954 – October 24, 2022) was an American public policy professor who served as the 25th secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He was director of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He was also a physicist, and a former Harvard University professor of Science and International Affairs.

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Native Name: Ashton Carter
Alternative Names: Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter Ashton Baldwin Carter Ashton B. Carter
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