we take a closer look at these cuts with nancy youssef, senior national security correspondent for the daily beast. nancy, good to have you with us again. why is the army making these cuts? >> well, the reason they give is budgetary pressures because i know the budget proposed by congress, the u.s. army must come down from 490 to 475. the army took an additionum step further going with the president's budget saying they will cut it to 450 the following year. so their argument is it's budge taimplet frankly, one of the other arguments they're making is by presenting these numbers now and what it would look like, they're trying to raise awareness in the communities in which the bails are sitting that these are the kinds of cuts that could be coming their way. part of it is budgetary and part of it is raising awareness of the threat to the u.s. army if sequestration and other budget pressures keep sitting on top of the army, if you will. >> woodruff: you're saying these may not all materialize? >> the 475 will materialize because that's both in the congressional and president's proposed b