'I'm just painting what we're losing'
``I'm just painting what we're losing,'' Odom said of her pelicans, fish, sea turtles, gulls and skimmers, and even alligators, boats and a shrimp.
It paints a ``grim picture'' of an overstretched military in which numerous battalions are not up to strength, equipment projects are over budget by hundreds of millions, and thousands of overworked soldiers are leaving the Services.