“The Marines are obeying the cease-fire, but they're being fired upon. They can return fire in self-defense, which they do, but they're trying their best to follow the rules of the cease-fire,”
“You would expect the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the whole Department of Defense community to be working on all sorts of contingencies for various situations, and you can be assured that's happening,”
“We know this is the most intensive time of training for them. That's always the winter training cycle, where they conduct the majority of their training, their most intensive training.”
