Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.
We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.
We once did six tours of America in 15 months.
A significant U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan has been continuous since October 2001, and President Obama's short-lived 'surge' in 2009 was a continuation of his predecessor's buildup there.
It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.
To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.
When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.
The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.