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He said several hundreds of thousands of troops and by the way, i would add that later on general mcchrystal said it takes that many troops also takes a decade or more, several decade, but we're not willing to do any of that stuff. we surely could send -- we could send a brigade of the 82nd in there and take raqqah, but we're going to bring them home afterwards and once we bring them home afterwards the same thing is going to happen again. no, i say what you really need to do is have strategy, not tactics. it's not enough to say we're going to do this or that. you've got to articulate how you ...

Demonstrates faith in his training, trust in the gear and commitment to the operation as this one. when he jumps out of an aircraft 1,000 feet above a target. >> the commitment thing, if you're going to, if you're not going to go 100% and do it you're going to have a bad time. >> so they demonstrate troops can arrival on a battlefield in short notice. political will, the choice to send them belongs to someone else. >> political will is not my charter. my charter is the execute the orders we get from america's leaders. and that's what these paratroopers do for a living. so when the commander-in...

To be engaged in civic organizations. how about the va? you were on the front lines with the va. you were a nurse there in salisbury, north carolina. >> that's right. >> relatively close to ft. bragg where i was with the 82nd. but what do you see now with the va? with those employees they represent, what's this crisis? looks like they're 41,000 jobs that remain open. >> clearly they are open. patrick, there is a real funding crisis in the va right now with the things that happened, the choice act that chairman miller introduced and it was passed into law. $10 billion was allocated for veterans...

>> the advisors guys been in the fight since they they have been there. the like the rest of the infantry guys in the army and the marines have been at war for 14 years. very very good 82nd is among the best. >> if we know where they are, these guy are likely to go in and get these isis thugs. >> very aggressive force we are deploying in the war that we have not declared back in iraq. >> i think the war in iraq is on again. let's bring in rosen now because there is a yes, no. that baghdadi, he is the head of isis, right? his wife and child was taken into custody in lebanon? is that true, rosen...

Moment in had history. a lot of special places with special meaning. into your a place with such special meaning. the talk about the people, you've done the most important job in america, bringing to lich the generation. who are some people there today, some veterans today you've spent time with that you want to highlight in terms of their story and how they're reacting today in terms of what's going on? >> well, you know what, mark, i first came here for the 40th anniversary and it was the beginning of the idea of writing my book and i keep thinking every tenth year, well, there can't be any ...