mrs. mccrystal for the joining forces initiative. i'm a marine sergeant in the reserves and i'm working for the navy. good afternoon. do you think, sir, that we're at the risk of the same mistake that we saw after vietnam in losing the expertise with this potential sequester, and the possibility of losing special operations funding and the hard one expertise of our special operators? >> yeah, we are. >> first the defense budget is already coming down and it needs to come down a lot. the defense budget got huge, and based upon the nation's finances and all, we got to bring it down. but i think that process is already underway. when people talk about defense, we need to spend 3 or 4% of gdp for defense. i think that's a dumb approach. you need to spend as much foreign defense as you need to defend yourself, no more. the sequestering was completely different. it was so unpalatable that sane people would never let it happen. >> we confused the last part. what happens is now, if you sequester in 2013 and you don't make it until early spri