we'll complete a destroyer and four lscs, lpd, and other expeditionary ships. the list goes on and on. this is what we can do if we pass that budget with its supplemental. what a list that is. and this is just the navy. the joint force, each of my comrades here, my colleagues, has a list just like that. and so, you flip that coin on its other side and all of those things will not get done and that divot will be felt for decades in the united states. >> very good. >> let me make -- >> general milley, yes. >> -- brief comment. for 2 1/2 centuries, our country has got a long cyclic history of unreadiness for the next conflict. when they fired the first shot at lexington, they had no idea they were entering into an eight or nine-year war with the greatest power of the day. we weren't ready for the civil war. lincoln thought it was a 90-day conflict to put down a local rebellion. we sent guys off with wool uniforms to cuba and the tropics. world war i, the 100th anniversary right now, that army was fighting poncho villa on the mexican border two years after it start