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A combat role. >> u.s. forces are not in an active combat mission. >> it represents a continuation of our advice and assist mission. >> our position is a support mission. >> we do not have combat coordinations there the way we had once upon a time in iraq. >> u.s. forces are not in a combat role in iraq. >> and it went on. retired army reserve lieutenant colonel tony shaffer is an operative. they got hammered from press across the board from every media outlet. >> yes, they did. >> for refusing to say this is combat. does it have anything to do with barack obama saying specifically back in 201...

Missions over syria and iraqi. there are americans involved in training and advising iraqi security forces around the country. we do not have combat formations there the way we had once upon a time in iraq or the way we have had in years past in afghanistan. we do have people who are in harm's way and who evidently have shown a willingness to put themselves in harms way in order to have mission success. i think that's very commendable. >> follow up. the administration has taken great pangs to say it's not ground combat. it's not major combat rule. it's not the same size as it was during iraq i...

Missions over syria and iraqi territory. there are americans involved in training and advising security can forces around the country. we do not have combat formations there it the way we had had months upon a time in iraq or the way we -- but we have people in harm's way and shown a willingness to put themselves in harm's way in order to have mission success. i think that's very commendable. >> just for a follow up. the administration has taken great pains in various permutations to say it's not ground combat. just as you said, it's not the same size as it was during the iraq invasion. but if...

So suggesting perhaps the president not be tone deaf, listen to what all the constituents are saying in congress because this actually had a good measure of support versus some other divisive issues. these subject. the u.s. special forces community is mourning, they lost one of their own in the first combat death in iraq since 2011. 39-year-old sergeant joshua wheeler, a veteran of 14 deployments, was killed while supporting kurdish fighters during a nighttime raid on an isis prison. how could an american die in combat when our commander-in-chief tells us we are not at war? defense secretary a...

As a matter of fact, in personnel you are talking about an army that will go from 549,000 to 425. a marine corps from 202,000 to about 145. the lowest level that the marine corps has been in quite some time. when you look at our combat formations, maneuver battalions and the army go from 100 down to 60 or 70. the fighter aircraft in the air force goes from 1,990 to 1500. look at enabled war vessels go going from 288 to 238. when you look at trouble spots all over the world now is not the time for to us do this to the military which is what we heard secretary of defense, general joint chiefs an...