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Shannon and i will be back in an hour. Outnumbered starts right now. This is outnumbered. Here with us today and todays hashtag one lucky guy, tv personality and veterans advocate, montel williams. Hes back and outnumbered. Welcome back. Good to be back. Its great to see you. You guys have been firing up every day. As much as i can catch you, i catch you. Thats nice. Thats great. I want to make sure im prepared if you ever did ask me back. Thats what i said last time, too. Just a couple of weeks ago with the release of sergeant and montel, you played a huge role on that and i think on behalf o...

Some combat experiences — like ambushes or killing a civilian — more closely linked to suicide, study finds February 19 Personnel Specialist Seaman Jenesis Fabian ties a yellow ribbon around a tree at Mayport Memorial Park in recognition of Suicide Awareness Month.(MC3 Alana Langdon/Navy) Though research has found that most service members who die by suicide have never deployed to combat, that doesn’t show the whole picture. A recent military study found that some combat experiences, especially when coupled with PTSD or depression, are a risk factor in suicide attempts. Combat in ...

Back. >> that's what i said last time, too. >> just a couple of weeks ago with the release of sergeant and montel, you played a huge role on that and i think on behalf of everyone in the studio, thank you. >> thanks to all the fox viewers. were it not for you guys putting extra pressure on and believe me, the mexican government understood that. lawyers involved understood that but i just talked to andrew yesterday. this story is not over and i have to make sure america remembers, there's another 2,000, 3,000 andrews. they may not have been in jail but they're suffering. this young man is diagn...

Anxiety and depression and needs medication. is he getting the treatment he needs? and what is the treatment he's been afforded in the mexican prison? are you afraid for him? >> absolutely i'm afraid for him. he was diagnose ed positive for ptsd at the san diego va just march 12th, days before he accidently made that wrong turn. yet, in mexico, being held prisoner, they have no ability to treat foreign combat ptsd. their military do not go to fight foreign wars. so he is not getting the humanitarian treatment, the rights protected upon himself because he's not being treated for his symptoms. i...

More complex claims because of the seriousness. >> multiple claims by one person have gone up. >> that's correct. complexity issue and our paper process has been for decades. this has been decades building. and we need to go digital and we're in the process of doing that. we also compound this backlog when we make decisions, as we did in 2010, to grant agent orange service connection for vietnam veterans, gulf war illness service connection for those who went to desert storm and then our increase of claims through combat ptsd. we said for the first time if you have been in combat and have veri...