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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...

Typically see after -- and i think history will probably dictate what -- the decisions that the -- that people in positions of power made, but i think as far as operational concerns, you know, lack of resources and planning is something that we have tried to bring to the attention to the city for quite some time now. >> so give me some specifics though. when you say lack of resources and planning, what have you seen on the ground there that has just not gone right at all. give us specific examples. >> sure. well, you know, when this storm first started happening and the citizens started callin...

Exclude all possibilities and that includes a cybertech. i talked to folks i trust with av backgrounds and other backgrounds, most think it is likely training but a cyberattack is a possibility. don't forget iran hacked into the program in 2013. they had some challenges but what this should remind us of is cyberwarfare is the fifth dimension of warfare after land, sea, air and space. the most obligated to carry challenge america ever faced that we as a nation are most unprepared for. rob: let's go back to what likely caused this. if it is a training issue, what is to blame? lack of resources t...

Sure that if we do have a systemic problem here, if there's something deeper going on, if there's a thread to pull through all these incidents, that we find out what it is and try to eliminate it. >> four collisions or groundings this year, is that just a coincidence? or is it a possible indication of some sort of systemic training issue or overreliance on high tech? >> yeah, we don't know. it's interesting that they're all happening in the forward deployed naval forces, which is the western pacific naval forces that are home ported there. that's kind of interesting. all in one region, all of ...

On, if there's a thread to pull through all these incidents, that we find out what it is and try to eliminate it. >> four collisions or groundings this year, is that just a coincidence? or is it a possible indication of some sort of systemic training issue or overreliance on high tech? >> yeah, we don't know. it's interesting that they're all happening in the forward deployed naval forces, fdnf, which is the western pacific naval forces that are home ported there. that's kind of interesting. all in one region, all of one force. i think they're going to take a look at that. that's why the cno's...