Andy Lowery

And then when they're sure of it, they're ready to go ahead and deploy.

Well, that's a peacetime attitude, right?

That's a peacetime attitude.

I have some skirmishes, nothing killing any soldiers.

I don't have any injuries going on.

I'm not losing any equipment.

I'm not at war.

We can take our time to run through the different exercises, which we've been doing from even before this administration.

We were working with the previous administration on these tests and trials and all the rest.

But now we're at war, you know, I mean, or conflict, you know, whatever you want to call it.

But we are in battle.

We are combating with others overseas.

It's a different, that's a different threshold.

I think we need to change our attitude.

We need to, you know, I have a pretty interesting story, just a two-minute story, but it was during 9-11.

We were talking about up on the hill how you joined right before 9-11 when you went into the Navy.

I was out at sea during 9-11.

We were off the coast of San Diego about 100 miles on the John C. Stennis.

We had no planes, no jets.

I was running the nuclear plants.