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Intelligence says it's not just the airmen needing a boost. >> we have a geriatric air force. we have bombers and tankers over 50 years old. trainers over 40 years old. we have fighters and helicopters over 30 years old. this is a terrible situation to be placed in when we have a world of every expanding threats. >> reporter: officials say they need more forces to bolster nuclear, intelligence, space and maintenance jobs. earlier this year, the general called the pilot shortage alone a crisis. >> the reason i believe it's a crisis, air superiority is not an american birth right. it's something...

When saddam hussein invaded kuwait. >> at the start of the gulf war, 134 fighter squadrons, 55. the air force currently is doing 74 strike missions against isis and the skies of iraq and 90% of the refueling nations. gregg: thanks very much. molly: new information on the top story, the suspect in the deadly terror attack in a market in berlin killed in a shootout with police, more details straight ahead.

Squadron and not the fighters they maneuvered so skillfully to get. just across the field were two fighter squadrons, so he and pal tom walked over and asked for a transfer. that story sounds simple now but john's version involved being chewed out by his colonel like something from the movie. this would not be the last time john paid the price for positioning himself for an assignment. on another occasion, john, only a lieutenant at this time, talked charles lindbergh into lending him his demonstration fighter which he was touring through bases around the country. this audacity led to another ...

I think it's fairly dangerous. >> leaving 10,000 troops in iraq, would that have made a difference in this circumstance? >> i actually do. >> do you really? >> yes, i do. because without american forces in iraq, two dynamics begin to take place, joe. number one, the different faxeses in iraq with the americans gone allow their worst fears to motivate their actions with regard to the other factions. you don't have the americans as a dampening effect. kind of a guarantor that the worst won't happen. since they don't have that guarantee, they all begin to look after their own interests, and we se...

Me are going to say no. it's not that i hate detroit, i don't, but we're broke at the federal level, we're laying off defense workers, we're restraightening the number of military personnel because of sequestration, nine fighter squadrons are grounded. >> so you're a no? >> i'm supposed to bail out detroit when you have nine squadrons? hell, no. this is not the right thing to do. detroit needs to fix detroit, lindsey graham needs to fix washington and washington is broken, and we have enough problems of our own to solve right now. so no, no, no. >> senator, thank you, sir. coming up, republi...