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Know, you don't just leave your fellow americans to join somebody else. >> explain that to us. civilians who have never as you guys did volunteered our service in our lives potentially to protect america think he was disillusioned, he was scared. he walked off. help us understand what a -- >> iraq is not an easy time. a combat zone is not an easy time. everybody is struggling. >> we're not there because it's easy. we're there to do a hard job and that's what you signed up to do. >> what's the best evidence you had the night he went missing and ultimately wound up captured, he was doing it inte...

Know, you don't just leave your fellow americans to join somebody else. >> explain that to us. civilians who have never as you guys did volunteered our service in our lives potentially to protect america think he was disillusioned, he was scared. he walked off. help us understand what a -- >> iraq is not an easy time. a combat zone is not an easy time. everybody is struggling. >> we're not there because it's easy. we're there to do a hard job and that's what you signed up to do. >> what's the best evidence you had the night he went missing and ultimately wound up captured, he was doing it inte...

And wound up captured, he did it intentionally. >> the morning we found out he was missing, someone went to walk him up for his guard shift and he was not there. not in his tent. his weapon, bulletproof vest, sensitive items left behind in the tent. we looked around the small op. it was the size of maybe two acres. some wire, some areas where anyone could walk right up. it wasn't a structured base with walls and gates. we had a struck stand out and a couple bunkers. it only took a few minutes to look around and see he was not there. at that point we knew nothing. we knew he was gone and we had...

And wound up captured, he did it intentionally. >> the morning we found out he was missing, someone went to walk him up for his guard shift and he was not there. not in his tent. his weapon, bulletproof vest, sensitive items left behind in the tent. we looked around the small op. it was the size of maybe two acres. some wire, some areas where anyone could walk right up. it wasn't a structured base with walls and gates. we had a struck stand out and a couple bunkers. it only took a few minutes to look around and see he was not there. at that point we knew nothing. we knew he was gone and we had...

We searched the whole op and the personnel who were there and that bergdahl liked to hang out with them and spoke with them a lot. they hadn't seen him. they didn't know where he was at and it didn't take long before it became pretty clear that he was gone. >> and he was supposed to have been on guard duty that night? >> yes. he was about to go on guard shift. someone woke him up for his shift and that's when they found out that he was not there. >> what was your immediate thought when you learned and the fellow members of your squad and platoon learned that he was gone? >> when i -- when i he...