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Take the steroids? >> well, you know better than anybody being since i read your book which is wonderful, by the way, and you know how special forces have an influence on the infantry. and so i think it's a cultural problem. the army also admitted there was a real failure of leadership at this camp, of the special forces leadership. i think there was like almost peer pressure, i would call it, to do what the special forces people were doing. >> so if i understand you correctly, i just want to make sure i do, you plan to argue that steroid use combined with the ptsd and the tbi contributed to s...

See him again. i just told him to be safe. he said yeah, no problem. i will. see you when i get back. >> shepard: his lawyer said he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or ptsd. >> everybody who has had three or four deployments to the middle east is going to have some form of ptsd. i don't know anything specific about it i know he had a con cussive head injury which can be more serious than ptsd. >> shepard: the attorney made those comments before he met with bales today. this the same lawyer who represented the serial killer ted bundy and colton harris moore the man known he...

One of the most emotional meetings of his life. tonight we are learning more about sergeant bales. he is accused, of course, of killing 16 afghan civilians. the vast majority of them women and children. then burning some of their corpses. his lawyer said bales did not want to go to afghanistan in the first place. after three tours in iraq, where he lost part of his foot and suffered a head injury. according to the reporting of the "new york times," bales was draining to become a recruiter to avoid going back into combat. his wife was reportedly hoping to transfer to a base in germany or hawaii...