Leon Panetta: “Sequestration cuts would do catastrophic damage to our military, hollowing out the force and degrading its ability 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.

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…

Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.

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