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What's become known as the tailhook scandal. >> i was in high school when the tailhook sexual assault scandal hit. i remember it vividly because up until that point the military had always been to me this bastion of rigidity and order and control. and tailhook was anything but. >> this is not the raucous party. this was a case where we had sexual assault on women. >> in september, 1991, thousands of natural and marine corps officers gathered at a las vegas hotel to attend the annual tailhook convention, a three-day event known for its panels and parties. soon after, word of debachry made its w...

Americans. now, these two were arrested on july 14, so a week ago. there was a third man arrested with him as well. he was in his 30s. he's been released without charges. these two will remain in custody until their trial starts but it's that one man, he's named junead kahn chowho has been charged with plotting to kill american service members. >> fred pleitgen thanks very much. let's get analysis. joining us now, required general mark hertling, a seen men military analyst, former commanding general in the u.s. army. general hertling what do you make of this? i remember just before july 4, o...

That are close to military bases like to have soldiers participating or things like rotc units participating. again, that's conducted under an assessment and what are the dangers there, should we allow military forces to do those kind of things. all of those are handled by base commanders, post commanders in the local area. >> so, you brought up assessment and there was a directive that came out for military bases across the world and including the consulates and embassies, to look at their security procedures what happen does that likely look like in what is that? >> that happens quite a bit,...

This even in one base at britain right now. is it simply based on an abundance of caution? or was there something specific that we know of that caused this commander to say, you know what the troops are not going to be able to participate in this july fourth celebration? >> not something specific that we know of. they won't say that there was a credible or specific threat to that base. but it is interesting. you have a number of bases around the uk with u.s. forces a number around europe and the threat level in europe is quite high now as well. arguably higher than it is in the u.s. with the n...

In this case some specificity. concern at military bases allowing base commanders to take action. go out say, seeing threat stuff, americans but can't give you anything to do that's not helpful. >> you don't think threat level bravo for milbases is the new normal? >> fbi directors talk about cases in 50 states but thousands of people over the course of time we've seen threats to major iconic targets. world trade center. white house. pentagon. we've seen threats to what we call soft targets. things like fast-food restaurants. we saw the london and madrid metro's attack. i think as the threat mo...