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Is we know exactly where those hardened artillery sights are we call thermal hart sights latitude longitude with gps weve ways of attacking sites you can imagine if five or six moabs were dropped in an area over there we had b-2s can drop 8500 -- bombs we can put a lot of firepower the readiness of those artillery sights dont fire arent exercising them they have been there for years so there is a readiness issue. >> colonel hunt shaking your head 0 seconds. >> -- 30 seconds. >> every one we run ...

Did have, i cant go into detail, ways of identifying where the good guys were. reportedly, these guys have designators -- laser designators. our guys can hit with precision and efficiency. thereby taking that argument away. jon: just one point, apparently they did have a laser pointed at the enemy that was launching mortars. >> lets just take this whole thing together. jenna: we hear the news about senator mccain that bret baier shared with us. he felt these different people that could help or n...

Say with this issue. youve got jobs and youve got readiness. so the readiness issue you folks have talked about quite a bit how it would change our readiness and our capability the jobs issue strikes me, when we talk about the fiscal cliff that could happen at the beginning of the next year, this is part of that because when you talk about companies including defense companies and some companies across the country who say they dont know what theyre planning and you talk to the defense industry l...

Have neo cons trashing ron paul because hes saying bring the troops home, in the last campaign and in this campaign, military members and their families gave easily more to ron than anybody else because they understand the strain better than some politician or somebody in a think tank in washington, d.c. that this is putting. it is a readiness issue. its ever expanding. >> but at the same time, i think you have to give credit to president obama on this. he is drawing down. now, the question is, ...

Majority of americans believe that it is time to end this incredibly irresponsible, incredibly expensive, hundreds of millions of dollars, 13,000 members of the armed forces ejected, which by the way means that someone has to take their place and serve even longer tours overseas in hostile environments. i believe very strongly its time to end this policy. >> final thought, congressman hunter. weve got to go. >> yeah, its one-half of 1% of all people that have been discharged in the last nine yea...

Five draft deferments, to tell somebody else who volunteers to go, sir, you cant do it, its just outrageous to me. >> scott? >> well, im not a military strategist. i did talk to an old friend of mine today who has been in the military for 21 years. he did say there are some legitimate people on the ground who would say there are readiness issue. but i look at the world through the issue of politics, im a political strategist. these issues around transgender rights, the transgender bathroom issue...