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Security office or you as a supervisor bring this to the attention of the security people then they refer him to a mental health review and that for several career fields is a career ending event. >> what he seemed to be saying, there was an interesting sort of not representing everything about aaron alexis, because by doing that, it would be a career ender. so that was part of the problem here. what do you think of that? >> the toll of folks who are labeling with psychiatric problems right now in the military is so huge, and it's required such a great sensitivity to folks that i think that th...

>> but i want to get back to this issue of stigma because i wonder if this has some relevance here. listen for a second to our own cnn military analyst colonel francona. >> if you as a security officer or you as a supervisor bring this to the attention of the security people, then they refer him to a mental health review. and that for several career fields is a career-ending event. >> what he seemed to be saying, dr. welner, is there may have been this interest in not representing everything about aaron alexis because they also knew that by doing that it would be a career ender. he would not g...

Alerted the navy. his access was still not revoked. >> this is a problem. this has been an ongoing thing for years. anytime you talk about mental health, that always raises flags and cautions. because if you as a security officer, you as a supervisor bring this to the attention of the security people, then they refer him to a mental health review and that for several career fields is a career-ending event. if you're an intelligence officer, your career pretty much is over as soon as the mental health people get involved. >> is this going to come down to, the system is broken, bureaucratic red ...

Of 238,000 position closed, including entire career fields, and some training schools that don't allow women in, it's a disservice to say to somebody coming back with a purple heart who has been injured in combat in the service of our country, to say we're not going to officially recognize that you were doing combat duty and that women have the capacity to compete for these positions. >> briefly, in the time we have left, has the court taken the case? do you have standing? what is the next course legally? >> yes. so the complaint was filed last week and it is now in federal district court and ...

Degrees. >> right. >> but the flip side of that is more women are not going into areas like politics and corporate management. why? >> and even the ones that are going in are getting stalled in terms of the upward trajectory of their career. they might be entering at the same point with some careers but don't have the national networks that men have once again to these careers so we still have 83% or 84% leadership in careers like politics and corporate management, those numbers aren't getting better and some cases are moving backwards. >> one thing that's important is what you touched on. for...