When it comes to how theyre used across the world. Someis your chance, give advice to donald trump as he is the president elect and preparing to take office, specifically in his role as commanderinchief. What advice would you give give him . In the8001 if you live mountain and pacific mountime zone. And on facebook. Com cspan. If you go to the military times, there is a look, taking a look at what the new commanderinchief what it may bring when it comes to management style. Inside the pentagon, early fears that trump will micromanage the generals more than obama did. Some observers say the president elects is this background of being a shift to the white House Management style allowing for the pentagon to make more decisions independently about the execution of military strategies and policies. There will be a Natural Inclination to shift daytoday decisionmaking back to the generals. With mr. Trump setting the basic philosophy. That was michael rubin, a former pentagon official. But there are plenty of reasons to believe Trumps White House will continue obamas pattern of heavyhanded management. Worse, another military officer and was among the several who talked to the military times and speculated about the future administration wednesday on condition of anonymity. That is the military times. If you go to the pages, or the website of politico, taking a look at foreign policy. Not only under the Current Administration but also the future one as well. This is a story this morning you can see the headline, trump t obama not to. Make major moves on foreign policy. Now they are on the verge of power, mr. T rumps aides say just a couple of stories to set the thought this morning among veterans in our audience this morning. Heres your chance to give some advice to the incoming commanderinchief donald trump. If you want to let us know what you think you should be doing with americas military, here is your chance. Eastern and central time zones 2027488000. Those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones, 202748 8001. Well start off this morning with mike. Not far way here, potomac, maryland. Good morning. Tell us about your service as a veteran. 1972, i was in stationed in germany. And i was against the war in vietnam. So i was fortunate i did not have to defect to canada. Is my advice to mr. Trump start giving us getting stop getting us involved in all these overseas wars. Stop using our air force to support isis rebels who are fighting assad who hwewe have no business overthrowing. Stop getting us involved in unconstitutional wars, but take care of the veterans. Host what is the value of keeping americas troops from all sources of conflict . Caller we have no business being in the middle east. [indiscernible] bombing all of these people, killing all these innocent people who have not harmed us . Host we will hear from larry in richmond, virginia. Good morning. You are on. Go ahead. Caller good morning. My advice for the new commanderinchief is to, and i believe he will with his business background, he will assemble the best generals to make the decisions mi5s him is to let them make the decisions as let them to him do their job, do not try to micromanage like obama has done, which is very frustrating. Host when you say the current president is micromanaging, what gives you evidence of that . Caller what makes me say that . Manyact that there are so restrictions on the ability to fight. Iraqst isis or earlier in and in afghanistan. Too many restrictions on rules of engagement that handcuffed the generals and handcuff our troops. Host larry from richmond, virginia. Ernest from South Carolina. Thiss for calling on veterans day. Good morning, cohead caller good morning. My advice for the new commanderinchief would be to build our military backup what we are supposed to have we stay ready for war anytime. My suggestion is put god first a nd rebuild our military have respect for our flag. I come from a family with back to the revolutionary war. Host what makes you think that americas troops need to be built up or more forces added . What gives you reason to believe that . Isis is building up. Theres. Turmoil in all the world i think we just need to be strong. If we be strong for war, build we willaryr up, then not have a nation we have got to be ready for war and hope and pray for peace. Host for veterans, your chance to give advice to the new 8000nderinchief, 202748 for the eastern and central time fors and 2027488001 mountain pacific time zones. Defense website, not the department of defense, defense news. Com, has a story about a request from the white house for more money when it comes to overseas operations. He writes the administration is requesting 11. 6 billion in wartime funding bringing the total fiscal year 2017 overseas operations funding request to 85. 3 billion. Extra money comes in the form of two Budget Amendment requests. To first is for dod funds support the Afghan National defense and Security Forces and to help in the Ongoing Campaign against the Islamic State group commonly known as isis or isil. The second funnels funds through the state department and usaid for assistance in nonmilitary aspects. Larry from flat rock, north carolina. Good morning, your next. Caller good morning. In vietnam inurs the 1960s and the 1970s and flew. Helicopter gunships so, i think there are a lot of us out there that knows that we need to have a strong army and we need to start by making sure that people in the army, like sergeant bergdahl, are fully charged. If we can bring honor and respect back to the army, we will bring honor and respect back to our. Country. Host being a person involved directly in this, what is the best way to bring honor back, specifically what steps do you think need to be taken . Caller the steps we need to be taking is, first of all, that bergdahl should be put on trial. The military needs to be built up so were not having to rely on the national guard. Right now, we cannot function without the national guard. So, donald trump has talked about increasing 100,000 of permanent troops, i believe, that we need to have those. And i believe that we need to become more active. I do not see a war where we are going to have 1000 takes a 1000 battleships. And we need to focus more on cyber warfare and to be able to use the technology we have developed to integrate our drones with the people on the ground. Host do you think, because you mentioned technology, if we have more technology available, do we still need the numbers of troops you are talking about . Caller we do need the numbers and troops we are talking about, because you do not want to have all of the troops. The troops can perform at 110 . Unfortunately, they cannot 10 forever. This is what is happening. We cannot have situations where we just have people rotating overseas, because we do not have enough. I think we need to have people so that we can use our troops to protect our border. Use our troops to protect our. Peopleuse our troops to protect even our nuclear sites. We have a tremendous amount of security that is handled privately that could be turned over to the military. So, they are not having to just go fight wars. Spend a year on a security and spend year or two years, every two or three years, going overseas. Host here is if you are adding this to the conversation saying the president elect should take a lesson from jfk. Always support the true but never completely trust the generals. You can make her comments on twitter, on facebook and on the phone lines this morning. The advice for veterans, the advice he would give to the president elect donald trump on as commanderinchief. 2027488000 for the eastern and 8001ral time zones, 202748 for mountain pacific time zones. Jefferson city, missouri, steve is up next. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I think that donald trump has got a pretty good idea already with building our military back up. We need a strong civil force. It keeps people from getting bold like iran. I spent four years in the navy. My brother has got going on 17 years in the navy. That just made my stomach flip and womening our men down on her hands and knees, their hands above their head while these iranians are out here pointing guns. That is totally unsatisfactory. Obama should have been impeached when that happened. But we need to build our military back up, and it does need to be for micromanaging. Seat,ng 800 on a toilet so so many politicians can pack their pockets. We need to build a military up and tell the world we are the ones to contend with. You cannot push us around. And in case the country dont know it out there, we are the most technical military in the world. Our technical people are up on top of their game. We just need the commanderinchief to let loose the rieins and let them do their jobs. That but you would say you also say donald trump needs to be more of a micromanager about how these things work. Caller about how the spending and stuff, yes. Yourike jfk said, let troops go but keep your eye on your generals and stuff. Host bobby, you are next from georgia. Good morning. How are you . Tell us about your military service. The united, i was in states navy. Twove been out about decades because i am 55 now. Host anything from your time of service that could be applicable to donald trump as he takes on the position of commander in chief . Caller i just wanted to say it is more applicable to today, to stop the social engineering. I mean, you do not have to regress back to slogans like dont ask dont tell, but someone needs to get a memorandum or something, say your personal life is your own business. Were going to be respectful of you. But just be advised if anything should come out, you know, it may or may not result in some adverse, you know, situations. Its best to keep your social business to yourself. Host bobby, specifically, what you talking about . Caller dont ask dont tell. You know, having the New York Times headline the army, the first gay army chief. Or Something Like that that you read. You know, they are trying to let , everybody know who is what peoples Sexual Orientation are. The military is made to break things. And morale is very important. And just say, like, when they had that dont ask dont tell, it kept things that were coming to the fore in the last three years, it kept it out of the front, you know, the headlines. Social engineering. Things like. Would like the commanderinchief to resist the urge to put women in combat. Just remember what the military is for. It is to protect people like you, too, pedro. So it is strength. This is at some point, let men be men again. That is all im saying. Host a story in usa today about troops looking for assistance in gender transition. These troops came forward after the pentagons policy allowing the open service of transgender troops went into effect on october 1. 55 enlisted sailors and officer seven formed their commanders they want the transition to the other gender you can read more at usa todays website. Here is dean, louisville, kentucky. Go ahead. Caller yes, im a vietnam veteran. I also, President Trump should be, take care of the v. A. I do not have any other choice other than going to the v. A. Hospital. [indiscernible] choice. O other i was taking five pills. They took me off four of the pills. [indiscernible] had v. A. Only lets you have a choice, where they if they are going to pay for sex changes, they can give me some Blood Pressure pills. Host homer up next. And homer is in shreveport, louisiana. Good morning caller how you doing this morning . Appreciate your taking my call. My biggest gripe is they putting us on hold. Ive been trying to get through at least about 20 years now. And they tell you to go, we got a backlog. I wondered where this backlog is. Host you are talking about your v. A. Facility . Caller yes. Rouge, whatever you want to call it, new orleans. Thats where everything is going. I get pretty good service here in shreveport. But im talking about, i got major problems and they just put you on hold. I have been on hold off and on for the last 18 years. Host for the same condition or different conditions . Caller same condition. Host why do think youre getting fast service on one end and slow service on the other . Caller that is what im saying, the system is rigged. Once they leave, i have no gripe with the doctors in shreveport, but when they leave shreveport, your total assistance is, uh, i just, need a little more help or something. Attention. Pay you no its almost more, cheaper for me to go, im on. Social security. Im retired. It is cheaper for me to go to the Social Security than to the veterans. I gave them 8 years of my life. Host thats homer in louisiana. Veterans only for this first hour. Your advice to the new commander, president elect donald trump. 2027488000 for the eastern and central time zones. 7488001 for mountain and pacific time zones for the make up a changing with the addition of veterans to its ranks. This is the military time saying congressionaln races tuesday with a handful of races still in the balance, the Current Congress includes 26 veterans with times and those two war zones, including 18 incumbents and three senators not facing contests this cycle. The only veteran from either war who served mark kirk a series of twoweek reserve deployments. He lost to tammy duckworth. Tammy duckworth, she is profiled in the pages of usa today, talking about her service, saying that she had led by doubled it is in the poll against mr. Kirk. She is a veteran who lost both legs when the helicopter was shot down in iraq in 2004. Tammy duckworth, among the new senators profiled in usa today. Walt is next, in garden prairie, illinois. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Yeah, i was in, in the navy from 1982, station aboard an Aircraft Carrier as a officeror, petty supervisor and an intermediate maintenance shop, that repair aircraft hydraulics. One of my responsibilities prior to getting out was to inventory all of the tools and so forth in the shop while we were in the shipyard under, we were basically being regunned by the Reagan Administration in 1980. And i was just shocked at the prices. The earlier caller mentioned the price of a screwdriver 800 and so forth. Being an engineer and working in the government, the government contracts my whole life, after the service, watching over spending their, too, i noticed the similarity. Gets passed on. They have special tools that do not need to be utilized for the equipment. It could be a craftsman tool or some competitive commercial tool being used that need meets the same specifications. Specifications as the highly screened. The reason for the high cost they can of those tools. That cost 800 for a screwdriver. But i really believe that you can find something that would be just as worthy. That fact is based on that while being an engineer, getting back to that, we went to commercial items back inf the 1990s. Away from the 833 military standard, a very highly screened componentry. Guest host marie, you are next up. Hi. Caller ho. I. How are you thins morning . Host tell us about your military service. Caller i served from 1995 to 2003. I served in the navy as well as the United States army. My advice to the new commanderinchief is that i hope that he brings about the morale as well as the issues with the racism in the military, not only towards just the females but naming the africanamericans. He also, i hope that since won the state of mississippi that he definitely do something to help veterans here. Im a singleparent of three. Im a disabled veteran 100 th. There are no extra benefits to help us here, where unlike other states. Happen to pay for everything out of what you get a month. It is very hard and difficult to try to save. Or build any kind of equity. Host why do you think there is a morale issue when it comes to africanamericans and women . Caller basically, i can only speak on my own experience. I was at a command where the statement was simply if youre white youre right, if you are black get back. I was told by is a. I had three strikes against me. One i was female, second i was back and thirdly, i was a singleparent. Host thats marie in herissippi telling us about experience and giving her advice to the new commanderinchief. We have been showing you throughout the morning video from Vietnam Veterans memorial there in washington, d. C. And especially on this veterans day, several people already gathered outside the wall, according to the memorial website. As of 2015, 50 8000 names 5 8,000 names on this wall. In the pages of the New York Times jan scrubbs says another memorial needs to be added to washington, d. C. We need a war on terror memorial, she says. She says we do veterans a disservice if we imagine them as broken and battered. There is no prototypical post 9 11 veteran. Most are doing well in civilian life and like those of my generation will end up being more financially successful that is the New York Times this morning. We will go next to david in garland, texas. Caller good morning, pedro. My advice to president elect trump would first and above all to get rid of the negativim in government and to hold to his campaign promise, the one he made about allowing vets to go to any hospital they wanted to. I myself am a cancer survivor, 17 years in the army. They could not get my surgery in time so they sent me to a civilian hospital to get my surgery done, which i was very grateful for, but the problem with that is my medications postsurgery, they were not in the v. A. So i had to come out of pocket via my insurance. The v. A. Just, i think really needs to be overhauled. I think that benefits need to be more freely given. With regard to medical care, because the vast majority of veterans suffer from some type of medical, mental disorder from all of the stress from that. I myself am a Desert Shield vet. Its not good. I just dont feel like we get the respect reserved we deserve with regard to medical care. Talkingyearold kid is to you like you are child. It is pretty he million. Pretty humiliating. Host the, commercial point, ohio. Caller good morning, sir. Host host nathanial. Caller i served for 8 years United States air force. Problems you are going to face today are kind of like right in my wheelhouse if you pardon the pun. I see president elect trump focusing more on individual training. As a person who is partially disabled, i unders