every two years the joint staff goes through a staffing drill to look at the unified command plan, the ucp, which is -- defines the roles and responsibilities, missions of the combatant commanders. every year we go through the review of the forces for, the assignment of forces to those co-coms. what we have done is we are anticipating in that staffing process. right now it is an internal process. my recommendations have not even gotten to the chairman, much less the secretary or commander in chief yet. i think it's premature to talk about what my recommendations are in an open forum. however, having said that, what i would like to set the record straight is that we will never we never go into another country without getting country clearance from the chief of mission. orchot u.s. forces arrive in the nation he or she is sitting in. so there is nothing in my recommendations now more will there ever be that talks about circumventing the geographic commander or the chief of mission. >> i think it's important to set that record straight. so thank you. general mattis, the jordanians and the tur