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Saying, in part, its the armys fault for taking bergdahl in and making him a soldier. your thoughts? >> well, i think that theres a very big, you know, gap in what might be true and whats not true in that fact. psychological testing at the recruiting level -- i mean, i was a recruiter for a while. usually its on recommendation based on whatever the person tells the recruiter at the time. he may have told his coast guard recruiter something and realized, oh, well, if i tell them that, theyre not ...

Be extensively screening for mental health issues. i understand back in 2006, department of defense they established minimum mental health standards for deployment. can you talk about the current standards? >> it all starts at the recruiting level, when they bring someone in and you start working through the processing. its not until you get in when the real medical background and medical care can start because of lots of different privacy and disclosure issues. so the fact that were starting to...