I also think, Madam, in regard to what you're asking, it just shows us that on the surface the military is too small. When you take away the extra people, those were actually our contingency plans to be able to do stuff like this. When you have just the bare minimum all the time you can't afford for there to be broken people in your organization. When you break a couple you have to punt them so you can refill that spot with an able body. That will be the military's approach so far as it only has three of three that it needs, four of four that it needs. If you need four of something in this country you need to get six because you're going break two. Until that's the reality, the military will continue to shove people out the door because it doesn't have the ability to handle that many folks who are broken.
It's easy to look at them and point our fingers, which we do rightfully, but you need contingency plans to be able to execute once you lose stuff.
I'll put it this way, when we sent 3,000 guys to Afghanistan, that meant 9,000. Three thousand came back, 3,000 there, and 3,000 getting ready to go. That's the cycle that Kurt was just speaking of here about how when you get back, you don't have time off. You might actually be in mortar platoon for the next mission because they don't have a mortar platoon because they lent it out to the RCR, who leant it out to the Van Doos, and that's how this goes. If you want what Barry is speaking of—and I want it—and if you want that break that Kurt is speaking of, this is a dollars and cents thing at the beginning, making sure your military has enough size for contingencies. Until it does, it's going to punt every broken guy because they don't have room for them.