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60 days based on experience. >> it's not just a shortage of experience. these world war ii era buildings are spread across fort campbell, leading to more inefficiencies. >> if we look at the ceiling, you can see the water damage causing the wood to begin to dry rot. >> robert hale, who served the obama administration, warned that military is exaggerating the readiness problem. >> this is the time when the services want to put their worst foot forward and make clear all the problems that are there, so i think we have to be a little skeptical. >> he raised alarm bells when he testified that 3 ou...

Numbers and a more detailed budget will come in about 30 days or so but we've been tracking the deteriorating military. this 54 billion is really al an appreciated first step to rebuilding the military and dealing with the short-term readiness problem of the military and then working to re-expand it. >> but you understand how budgets work. do you see a way for $54 billion to go towards military without eliminating entire departments of the federal government? >> i think 54 billion was the best that the trump administration could do at the moment given all of the repeating requirements that you...

Caused by sequestration which comes out of the training and maintenance budgets disproportionately. so i think we need to talk about the trump problems but not lose site of the fact we've got a readiness problem. >> other organizations have poibtd out sequestration is hitting the services to military members. colonel wilkersowilkerson, just in the terms general mccaffrey put in, you have two problems, sequestration that is hurting readiness but also this idea of taking the money out of state to put more money into defense. you had 120 retired generals submit a letter opposing cuts to the state...

Are ready to deploy in 30 days, that's it. 62% of the naval aircraft are grounded for lack of spare parts and maintenance. we've got a huge readiness problem because of the sequestration. i might add when you start looking at compared defense budgets, there's been a massive decrease in funding for the armed forces since '86. we used to be 6% of gnp, now it's 3%. so we need to separate the nutty ideaf cutting state by a third and the larger issues of the overall budget and understand we do have a huge problem in readiness of the armed forces. >> to stay with you just for one moment general mcca...