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Say this is not the marine corps i fought for f youre on active duty and you are experiencing harassment, the first thing is take care of yourself first. issues of command reprisal and issues of harassment and blowback from reporting are real issues. and i dont want to diminish those. do take care of yourself first. if you feel like there is someone you can talk to, reporting will help eradicate a larger problem. we have to understand how important it is to actually do this. im a behavioral heal...

Iraq and used to encourage during tent parties for males that would talk about assaulting me, what they would do to me. >> reporter: cuomo set up a facebook account called not in my marine corps to encourage other vix to come forward like -- victims to come forward like erica butner. >> we will not be silenced. as a rape survivor, i can tell you that this exact behavior leads to the normalization of sexual harassment and even sexual violence. >> reporter: defense secretary jim mattis, himself a ...

Iraq and used to encourage during tent parties for males that would talk about assaulting me, what they would do to me. >> reporter: cuomo set up a facebook account called not in my marine corps to encourage other vix to come forward like -- victims to come forward like erica butner. >> we will not be silenced. as a rape survivor, i can tell you that this exact behavior leads to the normalization of sexual harassment and even sexual violence. >> reporter: defense secretary jim mattis, himself a ...

>> no doubt about military organizations are not like a normal organization. death is a silent companion to these fighting organizations. the way they can face that kind of danger on a regular basis, they have to have good order, discipline and unit cohesion. and the fundamentals of unit cohesion are respect and trust in one another. these acts here are a violation of that trust. it is an absolute betrayal of that trust. and theres no wonder that he is very upset about it. >> sandra: i also want...

Matter how long youre a martial arts fighter or whatever, you have to be realistic when youre facing those type of people. these people, they have no hesitation, they have no problem killing you. >> jose, one of the things that makes it so kind of gripping is that we now know the u.s. military is going to push through with that court martial. the show started with that this morning saying that in many ways this is the trial that were now listening to and this kind of detail is so rare, especiall...

Kind of stuff. >> when you say you dont put up that w. that kind of stuff. go in and look at the at the kid and you dont think the kid will bend to your will. thats what it is all about. bending to you and your coaching staffs with will. >> the biggest thing i have noticed is i took a year off of coaching and went around and studied some of the great coaches out there. the common denominator is the ceo or head football coach creates a culture are where thats not existent. if you can create that ...

>> when you say you dont put up that w. that kind of stuff. go in and look at the at the kid and you dont think the kid will bend to your will. thats what it is all about. bending to you and your coaching staffs with will. >> the biggest thing i have noticed is i took a year off of coaching and went around and studied some of the great coaches out there. the common denominator is the ceo or head football coach creates a culture are where thats not existent. if you can create that its more diffic...

Weight. shaye was the only one to volunteer to take the weight. she took the weight off of me and carried it the last half. literally saved me. i probably wouldnt be sitting here right now if it wasnt for sh shaye. no more kept tichl. >> after that you had offer guys echoing similar stories. do you think sloerly but surely attitudes are changing in the military or did you have a different experience? >> again, experiences are different for -- i have female counter parts in the marine corps with ...

Places open for women except for s.e.a.l.s and combat roles. >> you mentioned the branches can request this waiver to exclude women by january 1st, but they must provide a justification for blocking women. do these justifications potentially boil down to what they would say is a womans physical inability to do something? >> actually, its not. women have proven they can get through ranger school. i think women will get through s.e.a.l. school eventually. the real issue here is that these are trad...

A fictitious country. the old axiom is you fight for the person on either side of you. so were asking are they well trained and is there a sense of unit cohesion at that level that results from very serious and competent training? and ive got my doubts. >> and there are calls again for us to get more directly involved beyond the training and the advisers that we sent into the country. heres what senator john mccain said about it this weekend. >> we need to have a robust strategy we need more tro...