on the armed services committee to chairman mckeon to try to move the numbers in the right direction. my west point classmates are commanding divisions today, who are out there facesing the challenges of increased operations tempo, what an operations tempo, that's how often the units have to rotate or deploy into a theater of operations, whether it's peaceful or hostile. with the draw downs in personnel of operations in afghanistan continuing into -- through 2014 and beyond, potentially that means the deployment rate of marines and soldiers could actually be greater than it was in recent years and actually exceed the time in the surge in iraq in 2007. that's unconscionable to me. the key to successful doctrine and to successful defense policy ultimately begins with investing in people. the second thing we do is address the threat. then after we address the threat eric we look at doctrines to deal with that and other systems.