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Hollywoods motivated to do something with it. >> yeah. >> why did that change their mind? >> hollywood, i always assume hollywoods kind of like the pretty girl in high school. as soon as you stop paying attention to them, suddenly theyre interested in you. >> playing the hard to get game. >> ive been ignoring hollywood for 40 years and still they dont pay attention to me. amazing how that goes. but this story is so extraordinary. and right at the end of it when you have the soldiers coming home ...

Scott & white, darnall, and the entire response of the emergency responders of ft. hood and the community at large. as you know, theres a lot more details beyond what ive given you in the last couple of days and much of those details are not releasable to the public at this time because we do have an ongoing investigation. however, i do want to clarify two points specific to specialist lopezs medical condition. first, we are digging into his combat experience in iraq. and so far, we have not dis...

Later corner ared outside by a female mp and she said lopez held up his hands and he raised the gun to his head and killed himself. and all of his victims were fellow army. three innocent soldiers killed and 16 others with a range of injuries and throw of them critical in the hospital. >> these people are critically ill and being able to address complex emotional respops attacks time. i have not visited with any of the service dht men. many of them came become and had combat experience. a short ...

I kind of have, i guess psychological problems, if you will. and i guess the mental stress. so. >> twaun stallworth serving a one year sentence for cocaine possession, is still haunted by a combat experience that occurred 20 years earlier during the battle to free kuwait. he says he once saw a friend blown up by a woman and a child who were concealing explosives. moments later, he saw another child running towards him. >> i didnt know what to do. but i turned, i aimed and i fired. he was 6 years...

>> the ukrainian military, about 163,000, 80,000 ground troops. they have antiquated equipment. they have been deployed with small numbers, but they really dont have a combat experience. theyre not going to stand up against the russians, much like what we saw in georgian in 08. short of war, i dont think this president or any president would proceed to try to stop a military intervention into that country. if we even move troops say, you know, into next door countries from nato, all thats going ...

A florida man who was going to prison for a string of armed bank robberies says he is not 100% responsible for his crimes. and heres how hes actually coaching that. hes blaming something that we have not heard before, gabriel brown is his name. he confessed to the robberies robbing banks at gunpoint, but he says it was only to feed his addiction to adrenaline, something fostered by his combat experience in the army. brown was a special forces sniper. he served in afghanistan honorably. and he sa...

That are going to go right along with these defense cuts. think about what it what is just about to happen to the finest military force the world has ever known. combat experience, most educated military and now you are going to cut their benefits. not just miss sears, thats nothing. >> i dont like the commissaries. the enlisted soldiers who work so damn hard for us and put their lives on the line but frankly. >> im not saying its nothing to them, im saying the cut in the commissary is $1.4 bill...

So, tao got 47, 1015, 51 dining hall, 4-7. get to steppin! >> the veterans dorm is pretty quiet. i like that. it kind of helps because a lot of us been through war, shell-shocked. some of us have problems with quick sounds and booms and bangs and yada yada. i kind of have, i guess psychological problems, if you will. and i guess the mental stress. so. >> twaun stallworth serving a one year sentence for cocaine possession, is still haunted by a combat experience that occurred 20 years earlier dur...

Combat experience. needs to have led troops in combat. needs to have experience to have troops that have been wounded and lost troops. those are all things i dont think they are taking those things into consideration. >> does that matter to you. youre as a navy seal, does it matter that are the guys making the decision about where youre going to go, that they have some understanding of what combats about. >> they have to. you can see the decisions that are made or theres a disconnect and they do...

Future most of our deployments are eerth going to be done by remote control via drones or via special forces is changing the culture. i will say on the subject of women in combat, you know, if someone as fat and as old as i am can go on patrol in taliban country a couple years ago, i think a fit well-trained woman can do it as well. >> i want to ask you about that women serving and the elite forces. senator gillibrand mentioned this in her argument, having combat experience is often a key part o...