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The day before yesterday with an informal dinner with secretary clinton and secretary gates. and we yesterday had secretary clinton, extremely fruitful meeting of the groups of afghan ministries and their counterparts outlining the progress we have made in the past several years and our aspirations for the future and our common objectives towards the future as we travel along. mr. president, i yesterday had the honor of visiting walter reed hospital where i visited with the wounded who were retu...

Hospitable. we began our visit the day before yesterday with an informal dinner with secretary clinton and secretary gates, and we yesterday had at the state department with secretary clinton an extremely fruitful meeting of the groups of afghan ministries and their couldn counterparts in the u.s. government out lines our progress we have made in the past several years and our aspirations for the future and our common objectives towards the future as we travel along. mr. president, i yesterday h...

Increasing budget to maintain a strong and ready force. >> you talk about cutting some of that fat, at the talked about cutting, we have got too many generals and admirals in the military service right now. something else general kimmitt just hit upon. you have been around for quite some time. after 9/11, the will was there to give the military whatever they needed in the budget to fight this global war on terror as it was called at the time. now, things have changed a bit. gates seems to be rec...

General -- british general bradig. they were leading almost 1,500 troops out to western pennsylvania, fort d duquesne, around pittsburgh now. washington knew the area and he warned bradig that there are places that are real good ambush sites, i wouldnt go there. general bradig was a british general. you know, theyre most of them are quite proud. they know it. so they march right in through this area. almost 1,000, maybe 700 french troops with indians ambushed them and started mowing them down. o...

General -- british general bradig. they were leading almost 1,500 troops out to western pennsylvania, fort d duquesne, around pittsburgh now. washington knew the area and he warned bradig that there are places that are real good ambush sites, i wouldnt go there. general bradig was a british general. you know, theyre most of them are quite proud. they know it. so they march right in through this area. almost 1,000, maybe 700 french troops with indians ambushed them and started mowing them down. o...

Thursday night. >> reporter: the u.s. is now sending some troops wounded in ago to this hospital in iraq because it cant fly them to the medical facility in germany. the pentagon worries if theres a major battle in afghanistan, it wont be able to treat all of the wounded. >> to have that capacity ready at our hands means we have to move wounded soldiers. >> reporter: cargo also shows down. the secretary general of nato insists security across europe hasnt been affected by the volcanic ash cloud....

Detour medevac flights from one war zone to another. we want to go live to cnn pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, obviously the volcano is having an impact on everything, including the military. >> you know, it really is, candy. the u.s. may have the strongest military in the world, but right now, it is still mother nature running the show. >> reporter: joanne and greg are now on their way to see their son andrew, a marine shot in afghanist afghanistan, now finally on his way home v...

Down, lets take a look at the next map. youll see the alternative thats been developed here. what they are now doing is flying a southern route. theyre bringing the medevac groups out of spain, well south of the ash cloud, flying them into afghanistan, picking up the wounded, or anybody who needs medical evacuation out of the war zone, and then flying them all the way back directly to andrews air force base here in washington, d.c. another one of those flights expected to land today. families of...

Critical now for so many years to medevacing and lifting the wounded out of the war zone. they fly from germany from the war zone and back to the united states. look at the green line. what they are having to do now is fly from spain, south of the ash cloud, over to the war zone and then air lift them all the way back to the united states. in fact, later today, another flight of the wounded expected to arrive directly at andrews air force base. this is impacting a whole lot of people, even gener...

>> gregg: welcome back. bottom of the hour. time for top of the news. pope benedict the 16th is in malta, the first foreign trip since the sex abuse scandal story broke. saying the church is, quote, wounded. >> heather: a memorial service in warsaw for the president of president poeland and other victims of the plane crash. people were gather to go remember the lives lost. the state funeral for the president is set for tomorrow. >> gregg: a pair of homicide bombers attacking a refugee camp in pa...