it is not just my luxury, pleasure but we haven't been turned down yet except in myanmar burma. we offered humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. we had 36-some helicopters in thailand and four ships as part of a coalition effort in the bay of bengal. we were able to fly out of rangoon but we could have done so much more so that's the one example i could think of where we were told no thanks. in every other -- in every other situation countries -- i go back to where i was a little while ago. we remain the indispensable partner. now we don't want to say this with chutzpah. we want to be humble about this. we want to be invited to the best of my knowledge and recall, we have always -- an invitation tendered is one received. and that works both ways and the second part of your question was -- [inaudible] >> oh, yeah, thank you, joint lessons learned, you bet. here's an interesting, again, semantics, lessons observed aren't necessarily lessons learned. [laughter] >> so when we do have these exercises and we have cultural and language opportunities, shall we say, we want and tr

when we went to burma, myanmar, we do not think we would get there, but we did. when to offer humanitarian aid since its rigid insistence, and they essentially turned us down. the tragedy. we visited 27 countries. unmistakable, unrelenting been in discussions, not just with them but with senior officials of fruit -- senior officials in the commercial partners in the commercial interests, everywhere we go, unmistakable thing. you, the u.s., are the indispensable partner. we deny necessarily want you with us every minute everyday in our country, on our soil, in our water, or in the air overhead, but we would like you nearby. we want you to be able to come when we need you. we want our young men and women to go to school with you, preferably in the united states. and we like our young men and women to go to school there. there is the indian military academy, and no one person and sets up for the great reasons of the success he enjoyed with our responsibility as a partnership, absolutely essential to their readiness, we have got to be out there. presence, you cannot

interestingly we got to burma and myanmar and offered humanitarian assistance and they essentially turned us down which is a tragedy. at any rate, 27 countries we visited an unmistakable, un relenting theme but with senior defense officials, senior government officials and commercial partners and commercial interests everywhere we go. unmistakable theme. you, the united states of america, are the indispensable partner. we don't necessarily want you with us every minute of every day in our country, on our soil, in our water or in the air overhead, but we'd like you nearby. we want you to be able to come when we need you. we want to exercise operate -- we want our young men and women to go to school with you. preferably in the united states, and we like our young men and women to go to school there. admiral walt doran attended the indian military academy years ago and he still cites that as one of the great reasons for the success he enjoyed in our particular air responsibility. so partnership, absolutely essential. readiness, we've got to be out there, presence, you can't do it virtually.