So on the first point, about ships and airplanes, look, obviously there's things going on around the world. It's not a mystery to anyone. It requires us to allocate resources. And sometimes when you are involved, whether it's in protecting shipping lanes, like we've had to do because of this terrorist regime in Iran, targeting commercial shipping lanes or the defensive airspace, or the need to backfill what's happening in the Indo Pacific as a result of this shift of forces, anytime you have activities going on in the world, you have to move your assets to that, and sometimes they're not available for exercises. So it's. I don't think that's an enduring decision. I think just one, that from the timing standpoint, of when it happened and it overlaid with existing operations around the world. (02:02–02:30)
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Asserts that U.S. military resources are allocated to protect shipping lanes from Iran and to address Indo-Pacific needs.
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