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And reform in pension and pay to afford it long time. >> you hit the nail on the head, hugh. my three priorities, people, capabilities and process. people are the most important thing we have. otherwise it's a piece of aluminum in the air or metal floating in the water or under the water. they are our most expensive asset, most valuable and most expensive asset. we have to think this thing through. yes, we have a plan. we can't grow to 355 ships and keep the navy the same size. we have to manage staff. >> i'm sneaking one in. columbia class replaced the ohio class. i asked every candidate abou...

Are some way affiliated with the military enough conventional weapons on the border to basically destroy hundreds of thousands of people in soule, and that's the situation we face it's not just them coming at us. >> trish: you heard ambassador bolton earlier saying look, you got soule or chicago. there may be a point where we make very extremely hard decisions. >> they aren't to a point where they are threatening us. they are talking about it and they may be right today the issue is if you really are making the hard decisions here, do you want to start a war and we'll have to start it, argue t...

Can hold, by the way, it travels at about 900 miles an hour. mack one.1 and can carry cruise missiles. now, there's more. u.s. ground based missiles can hit combat units, incoming missiles. it can hit communications sites and more. it can have a 5 # 00-pound warhead delivered to a target. and these can be moved around on trucks and things like that. then we've got navy-guided missile destroyer. this is the arly bushing class destroyer. it's a big ship. it can track multiple targets while guiding its missiles. it's got powerful guns to bombard land targets. and then under the waves there are oh...

24 cruise missiles and can climb over 30,000 feet. then there are u.s. ground-based missiles which can hit combat units, incoming missiles, communication sites and more. some of them are able to deliver a 500 pound warhead to a target. they also have -- we have a big navy out there, the navy's guided destroyers, can target multiple targets. they have powerful guns on these to bombard land targets. and under the waves the united states has ohio class submarines which carry 24 triden 2 missiles, each one carries multile warheads that can target different locations. so we have got those. and the ...

These missiles are in silos, the crews are on alert 24/7 to launch a strike or a retaliatory strike should north korea or any other nation launch a nuclear strike against united states. there are also ballistic missile submarines, the navy has over a dozen ohio class ballistic missile submarines. normally there are always a bunch on deployment. each one of the missiles carries up to ten independent warheads, theoretically one u.s. navy ballistic missile submarine can take out 240 cities. that is just one submarine and there are a bunch of these on deployment. the air force also has strategic b...