These have died down significantly, though, due to the help of the police and fire departments.

You're going to have pushback from governors, county executives, mayors, fire chiefs, police chiefs all up and down the emergency-management structure who wonder whether the military will become a super domestic responder and who do they respond to, ... Who determines if a state can't handle a disaster? What if a riot happens in a major city? Does a mayor get a call that the 82nd Airborne has just landed in your city? We've got to talk about this.

We have a huge problem out there with police, fire and other emergency communications everywhere. They're outmoded, they don't talk to one another, they don't work in emergencies. And part of the solution to that is this spectrum.

Fire Department and Police Department crews were on scene within four minutes to attempt rescue efforts,

The alarm is blaring, the police department and the fire department are in his bedroom, and he didn't even move. It's deafening.

We have a lot less money to spend on fire and police and other direct services.