Well, there is a gate now.

It seems as if the Department of Defense has a moral responsibility to these communities, to help them accommodate the needs of our warfighters and their families when it comes to school construction.

I promised him, if I ran into you all, I was going to talk to you about this, so I will.

And for the last 7 years, we have been fighting a war, but this country hasn't been prepared to deal with those people coming home.

We have taken and patched together school facilities, school infrastructure, fiscal--and we put patches on it because we never had enough money to be able to buy new in a quality facility.

I am not concerned with an immediate problem of improving support to our troops in Afghanistan.

How are you getting the word down to the commanders of these units that they have to be sensitive to the wounded warriors?

That will deplete the capacity for those particular units to perform their Air Force missions, would it not?

I am very frustrated. And the communities that are being upsized are very frustrated.

The Army part is already appropriated. It is a done deal as far as the military part goes.

If we were to work closely and cooperatively with the department, I am sure that we could formulate some workable criteria.

I think that is where... development and diplomacy.