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It's kill or be killed. but the u.s. armed forces is still guided by its values, by its discipline. it operates under the uniform code of military justice. and for sure we don't execute detainees or kill civilians. and if we do, we take action. a jury trial of your combat experience peers. so why mr. trump would intervene in that process which is widely not supported by the military chain in command, i'm positive of that. this is a political act. it's ill thought out. it's harmful to our image. and indeed it would put our own military at risk. are we suggesting that we would allow one of our s...

I like that. it kind of helps because a lot of us been through war, shell-shocked. some of us have problems with quick sounds and booms and bangs and yada yada. i kind of have, i guess psychological problems, if you will and i guess the mental stress. so >> twaun stallworth serving a one year sentence for cocaine possession, is still haunted by a combat experience that occurred 20 years earlier during the battle to free kuwait. he says he once saw a friend blown up by a woman and a child who were concealing explosives moments later, he saw another child running towards him. >> i didn't know wh...

Seen. and as we move into the winter months very rapidly here, there is something else and it sounds like inside baseball. but it's actually very critical. mattis leaves in february. you're going to see a change of command in several key positions that was already scheduled. the head of central command who oversees the wars in the middle east and afghanistan is leaving this winter. the head of special operations command leaving this winter. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff already scheduled to retire in october, his replacement will be general mark milley, the head of the army. genera...

Joe dunford know it was so shoved aside without any warning? >> certainly is an unusual way of going about your business, as you've mentioned, general dunford is a highly respected four star marine. former marine corps, a lot of combat experience and widely respected and not just in the united states but the international defense community and trusted by secretary mattis. so to announce it this early, ten months out does diminish his ability to be viewed as the voice of military advice under the goldwater nickles act and it's very unusual. >> and it's also unusual because this was not the firs...

Served under, why? >> that's exactly right. he's the only one that i served under that had combat experience which i later got under his command for the first time in desert shield and desert storm and he made the decisions the right way, he told his generals what needed to be done, they came up with a plan, they approved the plan and they went out and executed the plan and he made strategic decisions to end the conflict when it was the appropriate time, built extremely good coalition that was made up all kinds of countries you wouldn't think of today that fought that war in first gulf war and...