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Risks in certain areas. in crafting this package, we prioritized dod's strategic interests and matched them to budget resources. this required a series of difficult choices. we chose further reductions in troop strength and force structure in every military service, active and reserve. in order to sustain our readiness and technological superiority. and to protect critical capabilities, like special operations forces and cyber resources. we chose to terminate or delay some modernization programs to protect higher priorities and procurement, research and development. and we chose to slow the gr...

Are you being hurt? >> one thing i need is predictability. right now with the law of the land is siquesteration. signed 1 march, in there is no other agreement made, we'll take an additional $500 billion cut over the next 10 years. what that means to the army, we will have to significantly reduce the army structure, we will have to reduce the modernization programs and we will have to reduce compensation benefits for our soldiers. >> jamie: you would like more mony? >> i think -- here's what i think. if we go to full sequestration, there will be things we cbts do. we have to come to the realiz...

Peter doocey is live. >> reporter: senator graham was nice enough to let us drive around with him exclusively in south carolina while he was meeting with military leaders and constituents. he says iran is moving closer to getting a nuclear weapon every single day while we have been moving closer to automatic, across the board cuts at the pentagon every single day since that debt reducing super committee failed. he says if iran's technology is constantly improving and ours isn't, then we are in trouble. >> in modern warfare if you're not advancing and improving your technology you've become ver...

Rather, significantly to reduce its excess overhead costs and apply the savings to force structure and modernization. toward this end, starting in june, we embark and a four-track approach to move america's defense institutions toward more efficient, effective and cost-conscious way of doing business. first and most significantly, earlier this year the military services were assigned the task of finding more than $100 billion in overhead savings over the next five years. unlike budget-cutting efforts of the past, the services will be able to keep the savings they generate, to reinvest in highe...

Supporting bureaucracies. it's about sustaining a military over the long term. so we're focused on helping them in their institutional piece of their army. developing long-term programs, developing long-term modernization programs, continue to help them with logistics, continue to help them with supporting military equipment, such as air sovereignty, being able to protect oil fields in the arabian gulf. those are things we're focused on as their military continues to progress forward. >> norah o'donnell. >> general ambassador, thank you for joining us. with the president's plan to pull combat ...