Is something we ve heard a lot of people make jokes of. the vice president further explained the president s policy on creating a new branch in the military and though people are making jokes about this, general, there are real issues here and i know this is something you ve thought about for a long time. what you ve got here is i think the product of an impulse rather than the product of a study. doesn t mean the impulse didn t have good things contained within it and now you have the department of defense trying to adjust. i won t try to pull you through the knot hole of d.o.d. organization but there s a column a and a column b in the department of defense. column a are the services, the army, the navy, the air force. they don t fight, they train, organize, equip and provide forces to the combat and commanders, european command, pacific command and in the president s proposal and what