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Actually been a highly decorated combat veteran from iraq. earned a bronze star in baghdad where he worked on eod. that's those explosive ordinance personnel. he was a combat engineer. and they were in charge of going out and finding ieds and saving lives. now, interestingly enough, there, at west point, he was charged with looking after the well-being and discipline of 125 cadets. that was his staff advisory job. and now he faces these four counts of actually secretly tape recording female cadets in some pretty compromising positions. >> nick, thank you very much. in a contentious house heari...

A whopping $800 billion. about 32,000 u.s. troops were wounded in the iraq war. an army combat engineer was one of them, suffered a severe head injury from the roadside blast. his path to recovery has been slow and difficult. a rehabilitation program in atlanta has helped him try to regain independence and connect again with his family. dr. san gr san jay gupta has the story. >> i had a feeling i would be injured in iraq the second time. >> reporter: sergeant deangelo vaun was injured in iraq in 2005. >> we were riding through a mission to blow up ieds. my driver, he ran over an ied and i lost...

Right there. 03. >> right there, yeah, money. >> all stations be advised aircraft is cleared high. >> oliver: they fought side by side with the britts. >> here she comes. stand by. there she is. there is another one coming in. there is another one coming in five seconds. >> we took a fair amount of casualties in a short period of time. >> oliver: sergeant david lang from washington state worked as a marine combat engineer. >> and that really kind of opened our eyes to there is a huge threat here. >> i had two forward men wounded in one day. they were able to send up another corpsman from basti...

>> oliver: they fought side by side with the britts. >> here she comes. stand by. there she is. there is another one coming in. there is another one coming in five seconds. >> we took a fair amount of casualties in a short period of time. >> oliver: sergeant david lang from washington state worked as a marine combat engineer. >> and that really kind of opened our eyes to there is a huge threat here. >> i had two forward men wounded in one day. they were able to send up another corpsman from bastian. >> oliver: casualty evacuation

the process, for that, i want you to take a look here. i will not try and walk you through it. it's a mess. the bottom line is 917 billion dml spending cuts with a special committee in charge of finding $1.5 trillion cuts by the end of the year, and the debt limit rises by $900 billion now, and $1.5 later. already, there is one potential wrinkle here. the nonpartisan budget congressional office says the plan would cut spending only by 1.5 trillion, not 2.4 trillion. we are following all the claims and repercussions as only cnn can. by colleagues join me, and if you don't believe this...