have a preference. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. now i would like to recognize the chairman of the senate national guard caucus. senator leahy. >> thank you. yesterday we saw on the news a plane had to be landed on its way to charlotte. were those guard jets? >> yes, senator, they were. >> that sort of leads into a question i have. there's a couple of lesser known cuts. not lesser known but lesser cuts proposed to the air national guard and issues that concern me deeply. specifically cuts to air control alert locations. air national guard explosive