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>> cnns nick joining me live from thousand oaks, california. what are we learning about the gunman? >> he is a 28-year-old local man, a united states marine corps veteran. he served in afghanistan for seven months between 2010 and 2011. he was a machine gunner honorably discharged in 2013. he also heard from the sheriff this morning that he had minor brushes with the law. he was apparently the victim in a bar fight in 2015, a couple of minor traffic incidents, but most interestingly in april of ...

Bloodiest fighting. 2009, 2010, 2011. he was there during the surge. he was also rated as a machine gunner. i mean, he carried an m-240 or 249. he knew his way around weapons. if he had the extended mag that police talked about or was proficient in changing magazines, yeah, you could do that kind of damage if youre that skilled and a marine corps serviceman that served in the helmand proves where the bloodiest fighting for the corps was, yeah, he could accomplish that. >> youre also a veteran, a...

Long, a united states marine corps vet, served as a machine gunner and was honorably discharged in 2013. a neighbor says long was intensely private and not social, and his mother worried about what he might do. >> you know, she lived in near. >> she told you that? >> yeah. >> what did she tell you exactly? >> oh, i dont want to go into it. she just worried. she was worried about her son. >> weve got multiple people down. we need a lot of ambulances. >> reporter: police say long walked into the b...

The mental health professional checks the box, its similar to what happened in the parkland shooter. this guy, hes off the charts insane and they give him a clean bill of health. these mental health professionals, im not blaming them but they have to address the modalities they are going through when they see is this person a threat? they are letting off a lot of people that then go out and shoot people. we have this guy, he was a machine gunner in afghanistan. he saw some nasty stuff. probably ...

We know that he spent some time in the marine corps, and now it seems as if we have the answer to that question. nbcs pentagon correspondent hans nichols joins me now with that answer. >> we have the official marines service record and he did see combat in afghanistan. it looks like in 2010. from his service record we know what he did, what his mos was. he was a machine gunner. it looks like he was in active duty for about three years, dates of service from 2008, august 2008 to march 2013. now, ...

He was using what we use in the military. its almost impossible to defend against, especially for someone who has ever been shot at before and not used to hearing the supersonic cracks going through the air. the position allowed a sound dispersion that allowed it to understood so like two shooters. people are not able to comprehend what was going on. it was a coward move. bless those that lost their lives and the ones that helped save and the swat team that breached the door. i know some really ...

Operation enduring freedom on the night of january 21, 2011. he was serving as a machine gunner and jumped off a roof of a building and landed on a 30- pound explosive device. both legs amputated below the knees and he suffered a broken pelvis and shattered femur. that cannot stop him. within three months he was walking again. now hes a police officer in sussex county new york. he has a graduated from the police academy. he completed 29 weeks of training. no special waivers. he passed all the ph...

Operation enduring freedom on the night of january 21, 2011. he was serving as a machine gunner and jumped off a roof of a building and landed on a 30- pound explosive device. both legs amputated below the knees and he suffered a broken pelvis and shattered femur. that cannot stop him. within three months he was walking again. now hes a police officer in sussex county new york. he has a graduated from the police academy. he completed 29 weeks of training. no special waivers. he passed all the ph...

Operation enduring freedom on the night of january 21, 2011. he was serving as a machine gunner and jumped off a roof of a building and landed on a 30- pound explosive device. both legs amputated below the knees and he suffered a broken pelvis and shattered femur. that cannot stop him. within three months he was walking again. now hes a police officer in sussex county new york. he has a graduated from the police academy. he completed 29 weeks of training. no special waivers. he passed all the ph...

My bad. and as they say, soldier on. brian yennis with us in new york. >> memory better in the ts are rare at is the first double amputee police officer in the u.s. he lost both of his legs during operation enduring rebound in afghanistan on the night of june or 21st, 2011. serving as a machine gunner jumped off the roof of a building and landed on a 30-pound improvised as a device. both legs have to be amputated below the knees and he suffered a broken pelvis and shattered the mayor. but that d...