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Available it military children. we have also, in conjunction with other leading organizations, created a deployment and reintegration tool kit for military family members and friends of family service members to look at what can happen at predeployment, deployment and post deployment and reintegration for military families. >> ryan, i know it is your wife's first deployment outside of the united states. what kind of challenges are you and your daughters facing? >> well for us, my wife is a reservist. so we don't live on or near a military base. my children don't see themselves as military kids...

And finally, the thing that gets lost in the discussions, is the support functions issue that we are currently providing now to the afghan security forces. we are also providing them virtually to almost all of the european forces that are part of this effort. that is intelligence, artillery, air support and some logistics. if we don't provide the right size of a stay-behind force, then those will not be there for the afghan national security forces. and it will be very gilvfor them to succeed with that assistance. >> jamie: with the tremendous amount of commitment and loss and sacrifice we hav...