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The 1990s when the wall came down,there were 250,000 soldiers in europe post-world war ii as part of the nato alliance. that went down to 90,000 in the late 1990's and was further reduced between the years 2002 and 2011 to 30,000. that's about right. there is constant force structure review to see if what's called the troop-to-task ratio is correct given the mission set that people have, the military has in the conte -- continent, the engagement criteria and all that. having a review is important. what's interesting is how this has come at the same time when the president has questioned the va...

Tractor-trailer loads and smuggled. unfortunately we lost 10 people last july. and all these are symptoms of a border that needs a lot of work. now, the other mission set that we have is what i call the humanitarian mission. right? so it's the unaccompanied children. it's the family units. we have to deal with this population. i have agents baby-sitting, if you will, caring and feeding for this population going to the hospital. you know, rescuing people at the river i can give you example after example. pete: give us some examples. we are hearing about kids being put in cages and comparisons t...

Those weapons. it's interesting. the day after the attack by the coalition of the united states, the uk, and france, syria was right back at it bombing civilian targets with conventional weapons, taking strikes against women and children again, it just didn't happen to be with saran or chlorine glass. just as many people were dying in this conflict and the unfortunate part about this but a whole different procedure if you're involved in a civil war and when you're looking to displace by force a nation's leader. that is a whole lot different mission set than upholding international law and the ...

The requirements of what they'll need us to do in support. so once -- we see this as an evolving mission. so as the requirements develop with department of homeland security, we'll engage with the different surveillance equipment, light and medium aircraft however they see fit. peter: so, general, we see national guard troops even under title 32 status with limited in what they can do as far as law enforcement capacity. so what you're looking at is linking up with local civilian authorities and providing value to them whether it's surveillance with aircraft or people on the ground, assisting i...

Thoemp issuing a statement, and members of the national guarder making that i way to that border. what do you make of the case? >> the president has to give an order. his reasons for doing that, people can speculate, but it appears there's a spike in the crossings, and people approaches the border, but let's look at this from my purpose as a former commander 1st army that worked closely with the national guard for four years. the guard that is a tradition of mobilize, train and deploy. on any day the guard can take off and go locally and help with a tornado or a flood. this is a different miss...