we met with the deputy chief of the army reserve, major general keith thorogood at the conference.i asked him for an update on the state of his force. >> let's talk about the state of the force right now. the good news about the army, the total army, including the national guard and the army reserve and the active component is we've never had a force like we've had today. it's the best trained, bed led, best equipped force, really, the world has ever seen. our challenge going forward will be to decide how we keep that force intact, including things like operationallizing the reserve component. so we believe that in terms of making sure that the nation has the capabilities that it needs to win and fight the future wars and to be the decisive land force for the nation, we absolutely have to keep the capabilities that we've developed in the last 10 years inside the force. so the state -- we're in really good shape right now. >> from anna center of operationallizing it, though, a whole series of challenges have flown from that. i mean, folks are really not used to be away and on deploy