my time has expired. >> colonel ernst. >> thank you mr. chairman. gentlemen thank you for being here today. appreciate your continued service to the united states. general odierno thank you for mentioning in your brief the reserve and national guard forces and also senator donnelly for bringing that point up as well. we do feel the impact. we are hurting through sequestration. with respect to the dod and sequestration general you mentioned just this morning that we must appropriately care for our soldiers and our soldiers and their families are bearing the burden of our decisions. we must train, maintain and sustain our force and our equipment. but with sequestration in place we also recognize we have to utilize taxpayer dollars to the best of our ability. could you please give examples to the panel on where we are