national guard to be this back stop, the question is who pays? as you pointed out, we just approved a military budget that begins to fix our planes and ships and things, but if you just look at the last three and a half weeks we ve had six major military aviation mishaps that have cost the lives of 16 service members, so if you take money away from fixing our plane s and ships and training, and use it for other missions, then we re not going to meet some of those essential military needs so i m fine if it s paid for by homeland security or something else but i m against taking money away from what we ve got to do to repair our military for these other mission s. maria: i don t understand this. this is a $47 trillion budget over 10 years, the pentagon gets $7 trillion, they can t come up with 25 billion for a wall that the president has been talking about for so long and that so many along with the commander-in-chief agree is
military aviation mishaps. you remember back in june the marine plane went down, landed in a soybean field in mississippi. in august, there was an osprey that crashed off the coast of us a tram i can australia, blackha been going on. they are trying to figure out whether or not the mishaps are related to readiness and related to a lack of training because of a shortfall of funds. we ll try to find out more about this mishap and the state of that personnel who endured some injuries. all right, hans, keep us updated. new relief efforts from the devastation in puerto rico under way this morning with one u.s. airline offering its support. delta air lines conducting relief flights today from jfk to san juan carrying fema workers and emergency supplies. governor scott says he is meeting with president trump in washington today to brief him after his visit to the island
iraq says iraqi forces are set for the next fight against isis. lieutenant general steven townsend says he sees the assault on the terrorist held area of how far happening soon. the upcoming fight would follow weeks of regrouping iraqi troops and repairing equipment after the retaking of mosul in july. defense officials are dealing with syria s problems in military aviation. two more incidents just this week are calling more attention to what some consider a crisis in a key component of america s national defense. national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports from the pentagon. it s the latest incident marking an increase of high profile military aviation mishaps. four marines and a sailor showed signs of decompression sickness on board a marine cargo plane. it lost pressure at 21,000 feet. while in hawaii, five army soldiers remain missing after their black hawk helicopter crashed tuesday night during a routine nighttime training flight. late last week, the u.s.