that civilians might have have to take 22 furlough days and it s cut in half to 11. spra explain what is the impact going to be? certainly a lot of the pentagon s crucial mission elements are done by civilian workers. for example, civilian workers are in charge of many sexual assault response and prevention efforts something the pentagon is focusing on. to say this has a huge impact on the pentagon is an understatement. you saw that earlier this week when the department announced the sexual assault response and prevention workers about 5,000 of those will be exempt from the 11 day furloughs. they are trying to have flexibility how these are undertaken going forward. let s go more into the flexibility. you look at the people that are being targeted here. not every civilian employee is going to get furloughed and workers at shipyards are exempt and so are intelligence workers and mostly cia working overseas as well. so how hard are they benchmarking who is essential and who is not?