flight. the gun was actually checked in his bag, his checked bag. ammunition as well. the sheriff says the attacker is unharmed and was arrested without incident. the suspect does have a military background. let s bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, update our viewers on what we re learning about this guy. well, wolf, a short time ago the pentagon released a service record, military service record for a man with the name esteban santiago ruiz. this matches the name of the person that, by all accounts, civilian law enforcement in florida has in custody now. and this service record has some very interesting details in it. this man was a member of the puerto rico national guard and the alaskan national guard and he did have a combat deployment to iraq. he went to iraq, deployed from april 2010 to february 2011. now you will recall this was
at 0% in the polls. he did spend last night prepping by getting drunk in front of a whole bunch of reporters in a bar in boulder, colorado. but in all previous elections before 2012, the military service record of one or more of the candidates came up as an issue. not just as an issue as to whether or not it was a good qualifications for that candidate. since vietnam, the military service of various candidates in every election since that war has been an issue about which there has been some political discussion or some controversy. it happens in every single election. take, for example, the race in 1988. that race was then george h.w. bush running to succeed ronald reagan. george h.w. bush had a heroic, storied career, he went through
the republicans would pick someone who served is jim gilmore or lindsey graham, who is making a real go of it and will not quit the race, but he is roughly if you re rounding, at 0% in the polls. he did spend last night prepping by getting drunk in front of a whole bunch of reporters in a bar in boulder, colorado. but in all previous elections before 2012, the military service record of one or more of the candidates came up as an issue. not just as an issue as to whether or not it was a good qualifications for that candidate. since vietnam, the military service of various candidates in every election since that war has been an issue about which there has been some political discussion or some controversy. it happens in every single election. take, for example, the race in 1988.
now after glanlg waiting high school in hixon went to utc, university of tennessee chattanooga. got a degree in engineering. the next part from the local newspaper and said way out in front of reporting here. he was booked far dui in april of 2015 and aside so april of this year. aside from that jennifer i can t find any priors on him. any criminal history. do you know anymore? reporter: the pentagon is looking into whether he has a military background. right now they have not been able to find a military background. you found at the press conference at chattanooga they didn t believe he had a military service record. but it is curious that he targeted these two military facilities in short order just five miles from his house. i mean they were seven miles away part and five miles from his house, shepard. one more thing. again, this is from the times free press in chattanooga.
where ft. hood gunman bought his gun in 2009. flags are flying at half staff as they try to recover from the second mass shooting in five years. we ll get more on the suspect from the pentagon in a moment. first charles hadlock joins us live from ft. hood with the last on the investigation and then to jim miklaszewski. reporter: the fbi and military officials here are going over the military service record of ivan lopez trying to find out if there were any red flags that would indicate there was trouble ahead. they just can t find anywhere in his 15-year military service record. in the four years he served as a u.s. soldier, he received three good conduct medals while in service. but the military says he did have some psychological issues. he was experiencing anxiety and depression and sleep disorder