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And when they come home and their service is done, civilian employers who hire a sergeant major or a command sergeant major from our armed forces are hiring someone who can do anything because they've already done just about everything. it's why this has been a tough week where he was posted over the recent years at forts benning and carson and stewart and for all those who encountered these deployments. there are 14,000 americans serving right now tonight in afghanistan where the u.s. has indeed lost one of our very best and we of course, offer our condolences to his family. that is our broad...

I want to give that to malcolm, our military veteran on the panel. what is going on? >> you know, inside of every administration, you find these individuals who are, you know, inside the military chain of command who have a loyalty more to the president of the united states than they have to the constitution of the united states. and they will come out and they will talk smack. and invariably, there is supposed to be a chain of command that is supposed to stifle this. certainly in that public affairs office at central command, a command sergeant major who should walk up and smack him up side t...

But one would sense that there really needs to be a specific effort targeted towards veterans, service member, people who are seeing combat, even people who are not seeing combat. i wonder, is there any groundswell in congress in the hour since this happened at ft. hood to better attend to our service members in terms of mental health? >> first let's say this. for the last five years we trussed up mental health more than any other section in the defense budget -- sorry in the appropriations committee and i'm well aware of that. we are well aware of the responsibilities we have towards the mel ...

The hours leading up to specialist ivan lopez's deadly rampage gave no hint of what was to come. >> so you see him come down the stairs, he says good-bye and that's the last you saw of him hours before the attack? >> yeah. >> reporter: ayesha bradley says lopez moved into his apartment building about a month ago. he, his wife and young daughter were friendly approachable in every way, she says, normal. you said hello to him, you talked to him? >> yesterday. >> reporter: what did he seem like? >> he seemed pretty fine, happy. he didn't seem like, you know, the type that would do what he did. >>...

American express open forum. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. welcome back to "taking the hill." i'm patrick murphy. today we're talking about how the military can be an agent of social change. president truman desegregated the armed services 16 years before the civil rights act was signed. the military recognizes now same sex marriage but civilians in only 17 states and washington, d.c. have similar rights. now the military face as new challenge. sexual assaults. can it set an example again? joining me now are three veterans who are serving as advocates, congressman...