thank you very much. thank you very much for your service to your country, we do predict that. thank you. reporter: indeed, jon, general austin will be commanding a third of troops he did in 2008. it is by no means a soft mission, advising and assisting the iraqi troops going forward. the americans have to train iraqi troops, still, in combat, although the official american combat operation is over, u.s. soldiers will still be in the line of fire as they go out and show iraqis how to do the job and how to secure the country and maintain its own sovereign country and nation going forward. back to you in new york. jon: we all hope and pray that mission goes well. dominic, thank you. jenna: another story on iraq now, iraq is spending billions of dollars to transform its military into a state of the art fighting force, and guess who they re spending that money with? they re turning to us, the united states, to make that happen. there are new reports the iraqi government is planning to