checks and balances, but the bottom line is, yes, these officers, with what the deputy commander says, is an attitude problem, could potentially fire those nuke, although the command over u.s. strategic command who is coincidentally on capitol hill at a hearing today, tried to play down the so-called attitude problem. listen. >> as i sit here today i don't see anything that would cause me to lose confidence in that ability -- unit's ability to perform the mission safely and effectively. >> when 16 officers -- that it us one in ten on that particular missile base -- are being told they have an attitude problem, something is clearly not quite as it should be, shep. >> shepard: this e-mail paints a really damaging picture. >> you have the deputy commander of the missile base using words like, rock, using words like, crisis, and then you get the defense secretary himself