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Officials you spoke with said once you hit a 10% casualty rate your effectiveness in carrying out combat tasks suddenly just drop off, drop off a cliff. can you get into that a little bit more? because the russians, if you look at these numbers even on the conservative side and then multiply out what that means for those injured on the battle field, theyre bumping up against that 10%. >> thats right. so were looking at units, these are tank units, these are armored columns that are going in. if ...

But it does raise this question you know will the law of averages run out for the u.s. some day here as these attacks continue. right now the pentagon is calling them ineffective. thankfully no u.s. casualties. but make no mistake obviously theres a concern. you have 320 u.s. troops there. you have this constant barrage of fire. a lot of worry about making sure that those u.s. troops number one, can be kept safe and two, that if they are not in combat at least combat doesnt come to them. >> so, ...