up your skills and the army's free ammunition. the military for me were some of the best years of my life. >> i think that mcveigh found success really for probably the first time in his life in the army. i think mcveigh was looking for some kind of family that would make him happy. >> as you look back at where i come from, it's a military background, military mindset, and i want to make clear that the military didn't brainwash me into thinking this way. the truth is that the military helped introduce me to the cruelty of the real world and the way things work. >> in november of 1990 in response to saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait, timothy mcveigh and his fort riley unit are shipped out to the persian gulf with the u.s. army's first infantry division. >> the gulf war for tim was sort of the culmination of his young military career. the way that that mission was