Leon Panetta: “If the automatic cuts of sequestration are allowed to take effect then the number of U.S. ground troops would fall to…”

And ... we’re going to have to respond. And right now, because our missile systems and our supply of weapons being down, this is a vulnerable period for the United States.

It’s poor planning to wind up with your stockpiles of key weapons being depleted.

And the problem is, we now realize that 80% of our THAADs are down, that our Patriots were down almost more than one half … and we’re down in our Stingers, we’re down with all of our critical missile systems at a time when there is a real…

That’s too long, and it should have been brought back sooner.