for that we turn to craig whitlock who cover's the defense department for the washington post. where to begin? let's start with the navy. how serious are the charges in charleston? >> well, they are serious. we don't know the extent of it. yesterday the chief of naval operations and another admiral came out and said, "we just found out about this." one sailor tipped us off that answers were being circulated among people who were operating nuclear reactors, but they don't know the extent it. we know there are 30 people under investigation. as we saw with the air force, that tend to spread pretty quickly. >> ifill: there was another case involving the navy, involving silencers, contracting schemes? >> that's right. a very bizarre case where senior intelligence officials in the navy bought a whole bunch of silenters, upmarked one for a few million dollars, that only cost a few thousands dollars to produce. this is another strange case the navy is struggling to get to the bottom of. >> ifill: the recruiting scandal, the recruiting investigation involving the army, how much money ar