What I am--what I basically want to get into a deep discussion on is in this year, in this year's NDAA, build upon what we have--what we already have in place and stretch it further so that we can do two things--leading the national…

We either say this plan laid out in these documents is not worth our effort to even think about or it is.

In California, in one of the fires, it was a Tennessee company that came all the way to California to do it at a very, very high cost.

Waiting for reimbursement from FEMA is just an impossible situation, and often they just let it go.

The report does recommend several strategies to develop the cargo, one of which is you use American ships when you are moving military equipment.

Eleven billion dollars taken out of the Department of Defense activities all across this world.

That is a lot of--that is just not factual. You know that is not factual.

Either way, it is coming from the DOD or a strategy that would leverage the commercial side of it with militarily useful ships.

I really would urge you to move in that direction, and provide for these periodic upfront costs.

So, we will pursue it.

Why are they doing that? Because they see it as an opportunity to build their merchant fleet, useful for their purposes.

Are you willing to think outside the box?