and you have to descope. get impacted. that's a huge bill that you have to try to assume and absorb within your portfolio. did you want to add anything else? >> no, sir. great followup. it is a priority. >> thank you. questions from the audience? >> hi. i'm wondering if can you talk a little bit about the spending bill that passed congress and there is language in there to study the impact of the th 67's retirement. what are you doing to take a look at those impacts and you know, you have made any head way in discussing things with the helicopter? >> i'll take that one. >> we're studying the language. obviously, this is not necessarily a large prize to us. the th 67 aircraft as we divert of those, they're an old aircraft. they have really been used very, very hardly in the training base. as you know as john talked about, we do a lot of auto rotations to the ground. so these aircraft are probably older than the 20 years would show. but we are studying that. we owe that industrial base impact study to congress.

when you have more budget cuts the next year, we you have to continue descoping. an additional 137 programs whether they'll be killed, descoped or moved to the right some way, shape or form. that is a strategic impact to the modernization of our army. so that's kind of the strategic side of it. and let me explain to you real quick what happened last year when i went back to the big red one. so it was the september time frame, and i was the deputy commanding general for support. we went into the goth shutdown -- government shutdown, and we also occurred that we were told even though we requested based on our previous year's budget which was about 147 million to run the division, we asked about 135 million. and now, understand that that's two armor brigade combat teams, two infantry combat teams, an air vegas brigade -- aviation brigade and sustainment brigade. so what happened was we were told you're going to get 77 million. and this was before the bba kicked in and the bipartisan budget agreement. so we had to readjust how we were going to train the division for t