Donald J. Trump

of the Afghan war was on a moment ago, Navy SEAL.

The question I asked him or had Steve Ruber ask, I want to ask you, we're going through naval history today, the operations war of 1812, the Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, World War II, all of it.

The question I got to ask you is why Afghanistan's a long way from the water as is Iraq.

Why were the Navy SEALs so prominent in the great war against terror in those two countries for so many years, sir?

You know, the great thing about the SEAL teams, as our great president descends the stairway carefully, the great thing about the SEAL teams is they've always been adaptive.

It started out of necessity when a bunch of Marines got killed in

in Tarwa, in Baishio Atoll.

And they started doing UDTs, underwater demolition teams.

And then in Korea is when they really first started going ashore, blowing up bridges, blowing up key enemy objectives right off the beach.

And then Vietnam really got them

feet dry into the rice patties, into the Mekong Delta, becoming indispensable, true special operators.

And a great compliment to John F. Kennedy for creating an unconventional warfare capability between US Army Special Forces and US Navy SEAL teams to give the US that kind of unconventional capability to fight unusual problems.

The SEAL teams have always since then maintained the ability to fight in snow, mountains, desert conditions to be adaptive.

And, you know, the word SEAL comes from sea, air and land, meaning whatever means you've got to move through to get to your objective, they're going to figure out how to do it.

And so it doesn't surprise me that they did so well.

so far from the sea in a landlocked country like Afghanistan, because they're going to adapt to make it happen.

Now, since then, they've really done a focus on returning to water, a lot more diving, a lot more submarine operations, a lot more maritime operations.

Back to that tradition of one foot on the inbound or the outbound is going to involve water.

Eric, we have – and by the way, the president just got on the helicopter, so momentarily I think we're going to get things rolling.

We're going to cut to the live broadcast of this.