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Seventh fleet? is this about training? is it about budgets? is this normal and we're just maybe focusing on it more now? what's happening? >> the training issue continually comes up. that is a continual need of the military and our navy training capacity continually needs to be refined. that's been cited already in investigations. at a broader level, the american military is stretched, overstretched frankly and has been operating at a pace for years now -- just as we saw in afghanistan, we've been in afghanistan for 16 years. it wears down the force, wears down the equipment. there's a signifi...

U.s. forces in a combat role, absolutely, that means that you are accepting the risk of not just additional resources to apply, but casualties to american troops. >> why is that not off of the record now? wouldn't the president want that out, because he is not doing enough to capture isil, and why wou wouldn't the president shout that from the are rooftop, this could cost us 500 people every six months, you know. >> well, the details in off of the record setting, but the president has been clear as commander in chief how he wants this war prosecuted. it is a strategy. it is making success or h...

We trained. our president sat on the sidelines and watched people get killed that we enticed to the fight. there is nobody left to train. i would get the arabs threatened by isil as much as we are along with turkey. we would use their armies, 90% them. some of us have to go, folks. you are not going to keep the war from here if some of us don't go over there. 90% them, 10% us. we go in and destroy the caliphate. there must be american boots on the ground in syria to win. if you don't understand that, you are not ready to be commander in chief. >> i have no problem with boots on the ground in s...

In the media. one is the training capacity that the military, the 3,500, needs to be ramped up. and then the next part is the embedding down to the company level of mobile advisers. they have to be blood brothers. they have to be sharing and spilling the same blood so that way we are vested in our arab partners. couple that with the reinforcement of our gulf countries, our support for our gulf countries and saudi arabia. >> assume that will be waged and it became a winnable battle. what happened after we left a rock? >> you said it right there, we left. that doesn't mean a force there but pres...

Ground in iraq in an advising and training capacity against isis. then of course, it was u.s. special operations raids in syria and in iraq. and now it is apparently u.s. ground combat direct action on the ground by u.s. forces and not just in iraq but in iraq and in syria, as well. this seems like a biggest calation, like a big policy change to be announced in a pretty soft spoken way in unheralded testimony before a senate committee that basically had no spectators there. is it actually as big a change in policy as it seems? are we now moving to a boots on the ground ground combat operation ...