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Take a listen. right now the army has an $18 billion shortfall and it s what we call operation accounts which helps us conduct training, which helps us pay civilian personnel and so what i m trying to tell everybody is that we re not going to be able to train for the rest of this year for the most part except for those in afghanistan. patrick, you ve been on the ground recently, how critical are training cuts to the army? they re absolutely critical. general patton once said with every gallon of of sweat you save a pint of blood. you need troops to train like they fight and when you cut $18 billion unless you re going to afghanistan you re not going get trained it s devastating for our nation s sons and daughters. i tell you, craig, this sequester is hurting our military. it s hurting our people and it s going to hurt our economy. we re talking about 750,000 jobs this sequester is going to hurt ....