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Significant. our plan is to get a little bit smaller, but to maintain a ready force under any conditions thats ready to meet the needs of the nation. our overhanging concern is that we still need to leave resources available for modernizing the air force which haseen aging over the last ten to 20 years. average age of our fighters is now 23 years, the average age of our tanker force is 49 years. the bombers are averaging in the mid 30s and higher. its time to modernize and to recapitalize our ai...

Deal of confidence in the secretary of defense panetta but there are only words and to date the iranians have just shrugged their shoulders and said so what. heather: they have basically for 3 1/2 years we talked about increasing these sanctions. doesnt appear to have worked so far. what more do we need to do? >> well i think what weve got to do frankly, is say that they arent going to do anything until we make the move and well probably have to do it. it is getting too late now to use covert me...

Ground to develop the targets for the target. >> can you tell us what submarines and ships the missiles came from, the u.s.? >> im going to have to provide you at another time. i dont have that in front of me. >> just to be clear, there are no u.s. aircraft involved at this point. >> no u.s. aircraft over land at this point, no, maam. >> and none involved in air strikes. >> not at this particular time, no, maam. >> admiral, are any u.s. aircraft providing refueling support for any aircraft invol...

For the target. >> can you tell us what submarines and ships the missiles came from -- >> im going to have to provide you that at another time. i dont have it in front of me. >> just to be clear, there are no u.s. aircraft involved at this point -- >> no u.s. aircraft over land at this time. >> and no involved in air strikes? >> not at this particular time, no, maam. >> are any u.s. aircraft providing refueling support for any aircraft involved? >> i would anticipate that we will be providing th...

Ground. >> can you tell us what submarines? >> im going to have to provide you that at another time. >> and aircraft involved at this point? >> there was no u.s. aircraft at this time. not at this particular time, no [ inaudible ] >> i would anticipate that we will be providing that. we bring unique capabilities in command and control and logistics so part of that we bring a very large tanker force to do that and we will be contributing that and in the future. >> what is this in relation to fren...