I agree that our military is, hands down, the best in the world, but I think what Torch was talking about is what the current administration is doing to it. With the planned budjet cuts, it can't help but weaken it. I went through this during the Carter administration. Fuel cuts meant that we couldn't maintain currency in our aircraft and had to keep getting waivers to stay on flight status. Had a hanger full of aircraft that should have been mission ready, instead they were canabalized of parts (we didn't have money for maintenance parts). Unless we make a change in November, I see the same or worse in the very near future for our military.