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Individuals who are troubled? >> the military has taken great strides in this regard. the -- when a service member comes out of a combat environment from -- whether iraq or afghanistan, they go through a series of sessions where they're mandatory, they're basically asked are you okay, is there anything we can do for you, and there is every opportunity, i think, given the constraints in the system to provide them those sorts of -- that sort of care. that said, there still is very much a reticence on the part of service personnel to avail themselves of that service. and i think ultimately this i...

here in new york city. great to have you visiting us. >> pleasure to be here. >> and john is a political comedian, will cain and fdorian nice to have each and every when of you. >> good morning. >> interesting to think it's been a month since trayvon martin killed. >> and two weeks since white people heard about it. >> the story was not that well-known in the media. >> on social media it was making the rounds and finally everyone else picked it up about two weeks ago. >> of course it's our starting point, thousands are expected to make their way to san sford, florida. honoring trayvo...

He is reacting, what does it say about the way he and our veterans are being treated? >> this was the classic clown of his unit. very happy-go-lucky kind of guy. coming from the combat environment to theive i willian war, how do you make the transition? combat to working in a convenience store. these guys have so many skills. how do you make them translate to the civilian world? those are the things that adam is talking about. we need jobs for these guys. we need a transition program for these guys. >> michael, what's the most important message you want people to take away from viewing the doc...

Soldier, brotherhood is the willingness to sacrifice one's life for the group. once you experienced the psychological comfort of belonging to such a group, it is apparently very hard to give it up. explain to us that experience and how it translates. >> well, you know, you have these young guys and they are -- they suddenly find themselves in a combat environment where their identity, their role in the group is very, very clear. and combat, for all of its ills, it is also kind of intoxicating. and the sense of purpose and the sense of sort of group unity is really, really compelling experience...

The brigade level they knew there were protests among the villagers saying that civilians had been executed on at least two different occasions. and they didn't do anything about it. >> what do you know about the motives of these people and their mental health? >> well, some of them in their defense are claiming drug use, claiming that they were imbalanced. they're trying to pin it on a squad leader, saying he was the ring leader. we found there was a lot of frustration in this unit. they were out on the front line, they were supposed to be engaging the taliban and they couldn't find the talib...