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A couple of admirals and did a one-day standdown for safety. with 17 years of war and sequestration, which is hurting the budget, everybody in uniform knew that we were going to be short of money while we are fighting a war. and they have done nothing about this.er look, it's devastating to me because we are losing soldiers, sailors, marines, not in combat, but because of incompetence, plain and simple. that can be fixed rightt now. all the money in the world will not fix the bad leadership that led into this.ip >> tucker: yeah. i bet that's exactly right. given where we are right now, and you...

A couple of admirals and did a one-day sound down for safety. war and sequestration which is budget. everybody in uniform knew that we were going to be short of money while we are fighting a war. and they have done nothing about this. look, it's deficit stating to me losing soldiers and sailors marines, because of incompetence, plain and simple and that can be fixed right now. all the money in the world will not fix the bad leadership that led into this. >> tucker: yeah. i bet that's exactly right given where we are right now and you have just been explaining the death toll from it are we read...

Into each other all over the world. sailors, marines, airmen are getting killed. nobody seems to care about this. part of this is less than 1% of the nation serves. but we have become bludgeoned by 17 years of war. but this is very bad business and this new budgeter will take about five to 10 years to correct some of this maintenance issue. but the leadership issue can be fixed right now. >> tucker: so when ships first started colliding with one another, u.s. naval vessels started hitting each other, hitting other objects, there was a suggestion that maybe their navigation was being jammed by ...

>> tucker: term nature is getting closer courtesy of the pentagon. the dod expects to spend a billion dollars deploying military robots. the technology advances the military is struggling to keep current equipment functioning properly. military plane crashes you may have noticed are at a six year high. since october 1st of last year there have been 12 fatal accidents that have resulted in 35 pilots and crew dying. colonel david hunt is a fox news military analyst. he joins us tonight. colonel, do you see a pattern here and if so what does it mean? >> yeah, we have been -- this pattern has been...

North korea, very, very difficult to do with terrain. not mechanized friendly. my answer is no. 17 years of constant war. we have a great military. but they are tired and the gear that we are talking about now is giving out and the next will be the guys. so we have got to figure this one out. we simply don't seem to want to. >> tucker: very quickly, would it make a difference if we shut down the afghanistan operation after all these years, close to two decades, and moved those resources somewhere else and give the people involved a breather? would that help? >> absolutely. it's not just the gu...