We've got some Marines who have been over there a fourth and fifth time, and there comes a point where the family says you know, we just can't handle this anymore.

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There are about 1, 400 special operations forces and Marines who've been operating out of Djibouti who have been in Ethiopia, training Ethiopian troops, and who have been on the ground, actually, in Somalia gathering intelligence.

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