a deteriorating security environment, the united states would be in a position to rapidly deploy additional combat teams and logistics, medical, aviation, and intelligence surveillance and recognizance, transportation and additional capabilities into europe. again, i want to reinforce that as of now, the decision has been made to put these units on higher alert and higher alert only. no decisions have been made to deploy any forces from the united states at this time. and when i say hietdenned alert, in some cases some of the forces were already on a heightened posture, readiness to deploy and the secretary decided to make it even more shortened the tether even more. so in some cases unit would go from toen days to deploy and no they are at five days. that is not the case for every unit. some are simply more ready and postured that way than others. the idea though is that all of