just wonder if you could comment on how you see socon's role in combating piracy in 5 thwart of the world and how it might distract from some of the other missions. >> yes, sir. we have obviously across the military there's robust capability to take on piracy in different ways and special operations contributes some of the capability to that as was evidenced here a couple months ago. how the force is used is a matter of policy. it's my responsibility to train the force to do what it is it's asked to do. we do keep some elements of our force on stand by, on alert to respond to that kind of situation so that if they are infrequent, then i think we would consider it not to be much of a -- >> that's all it takes, even with everything that's gone on the last eight years it's always been the case you've had that stand by in force. >> yes, sir. >> sorry to interrupt. >> again, it's more of a policy issue, but the question is, is really are we going to prevent piracy, are we going to respond to piracy with the military force? and today we've been more in the business of reasoning, with my course