Dave Sharpe says the veterans have sacrificed so much.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

A Pentagon spokesman, Colonel Dave Lapan, says the Post story itself notes that the 13,000 support troops are within the overall maximum authorized by President Barack Obama earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Team USA Associate general manager Dave Poile says only five of the players considered for the team had Olympic experience, and only seven of them were even alive when Team USA won its last hockey gold 1980 in Lake Placid,New York.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12