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They have been fired in the middle of their enlisted duty. i think it's i am movl and illegal. >> heather: they have been enlisted for 7-15 years. many aviation fields and specialties that the navy has determined had too many people. >> the chairman of chief joints of staff it is performance based. secondly he said, this would not be compromised by this. and this is part of sequestration which was agreed upon by republicans and democrats. they are cutting $487 billion. this is what happened and come to an agreement about budgets which they have not been able to do because republicans refuse to...

And i believe the obama given four more years will cut between 300,000 and 400,000 troops. but even romney-ryan could cut between 150,000 and 200,000 troops. why? they will all cut troops. the real treasure, the golden arrow in our quiver to preserve welfare payment to major defense contractors. shannon: that just the first cut. we know the pentagon is facing $487 billion in additional cuts aside from sequestration. i want to read something from frank kendall the undersecretary of defense. he talks about the fact if you have a defense budget with 25 lines in the budget. each those lines would ...

Years you will have no revenues and profits from the defense sector. >> neil: i know what you are saying. 10% cut doesn't mean one year, it could average out to be the equivalent. many argue the defense establishment has a lot of money and everybody has to take their licks and defense industry is part of it, as well. republicans agreed to that when they came up with sequestration, what do you say? >> that is an interesting point. sequestration by design was supposeded to be so horrible that no rational person would choose it. unfortunately it's become the law of the land. to your point about t...

Trillion in cuts over the next decade, the sequester, which in latin means, dumb politicians destroying defense, the penalty clause for sequester says, if you fail, super-committee, we'll take $600 billion out of the defense department as a pun nashment. we've already taken $487 billion out of the defense department. if you have these automatic defense cuts because the super-committee's failure here is what leon panetta, our defense secretary said would be the consequences. it would decimate our defense. it would cripple us in terms of our ability to protect this nation. it would be a, it is a...

Yes between now and election. bill: extend it for a year or make major revisions? >> find alternative cuts in the budget. beginning in january, 55 billion comes out of the defense department on top of the 487 billion we've already cut. find ways to help the defense department save them from these devastating cuts. look, work together to find savings in other areas. there are some dollars you could still find in the, in the defense budget but sequestration destroys the defense department. it starts in january. let's find a one-year solution. let's work together to take the first year off the ta...