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Two tank philosophies, totally at odds with each other. What were they?

Helicopter that was used to ferry embassy employees and others. >> exactly so, yeah. and those have been i think partially dismantled. but you also had other helicopters as well and there was even an mrap as well. we saw app mrap as well. though i think it had been disabled. a lot of things have been disabled it seems. >> oh, so you think that helicopter has been disabled? >> i mean, i'm no expert, to be clear. so i don't want to pretend to know what i don't know. but it seems like it has been dismantled. and this isn't easy, right? it's not just a matter of grabbing a screwdriver and putting ...

That demonstrators on the west side had breached the fence. now it was obvious there was a direct threat to the capitol. i quickly put on a steel chest plate which weighs approximately 20 pounds, and carrying my m-4 rifle sprinted around the north side of the capitol to the west terrace and the railing of the inaugural stage. where i had a broad view of what was going on. i was stunned by what i saw. and what seemed like a sea of people, capitol police officers and metropolitan police officers, mpd, were engaged in desperate hand to hand fighting with rioters across the west lawn. until then, ...

Close-up look at the power of the ar-15 and this is what he discovered. >> reporter: this is what an ar-15 sounds like. [ gunfire ] general mark hertling served in the u.s. army for 37 years, so he knows what the ar-15, which used to be a weapon of war, can do. and he has strong feelings about the semi-automatic assault-style rifle, which is the precursor to a weapon currently used by the military, the m-4. >> the truth of the matter is, they look almost exactly the same. >> so this is the m-4, military rifle. >> right. >> this is the ar-15. >> right. >> a lot of people will buy this, just bec...

Children. if god forbid a million times that was within of your children, would you actually talk to me as a dad and say -- >> i will, and i'm a dad and i'm for some issues on gun but i've been in the military 34 years, i'm a brigadier general of the army national guard and i can tell you an ar-15 is nothing like an m-16 or an m-4 because what matters is not cosmetic features and what it looks like on the outside, it's the guts and what it does on the inside. and an m-4 and an m-16 have automatic fire. an ah-15 say semiautomatic weapon. it's not a military weapon it's meant to look like it. >>...