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Brandishing his gun and threatening all. what i'm interested in now is why you have quit the nra? >> because all you ever hear about is fund-raising, for what purpose, i'm not really sure. they had the national reciprocity bill going through congress, i couldn't get a straight answer out of anybody why they wouldn't bring it to a senate vote in 2010 or in 2011 so you at least know who you're against. >> i mean, do you think the nra has any soechbs responsibility in terms of the guests i just had, they never advertise in terms of gun safety, responsibility at all. all the advertising is geared ...

They had the national reciprocity bill going through congress, i couldn't get a straight answer out of anybody why they wouldn't bring it to a senate vote in 2010 or in 2011 so you at least know who you're against. >> i mean, do you think the nra has any sense of responsibility in terms of the guests i just had, they never advertise in terms of gun safety, responsibility at all. all the advertising is geared towards selling more firearms. do you think it would change their pr, if nothing else if they really started to take seriously advertising the and promoting safe gun use. >> they do do tha...

In terms of the guests i just had, they never advertise in terms of gun safety, responsibility at all. all the advertising is geared towards selling more firearms. do you think it would change their pr, if nothing else if they really started to take seriously advertising the and promoting safe gun use. >> they do do that in their marksmanship program, which you've got to enroll in one of their marksmanship courses to get that. >> right. >> you're going to get a lot more gun safety in a concealed weapons permit class here in south carolina. >> do you think there's a disconnect between the leade...

Marksmanship courses. they are up to 89% this year. >> probably the biggest key was focusing a lot more on the hands-on portions of the training. >> reporter: but, by far, the most important change we saw is the increase in trainers. double what they were last year. >> when you are trying to develop an army of 134,000, you've really got to start putting the troops through the training. we weren't doing that. >> reporter: we found some of the adverse trends have indeed been reversed, but with trainers desperate to fill the ranks, even the most optimistic u.s. officials admit that success is not...

Mean very, very basic. >> some of them haven't driven ever. >> about 95% to 98% have never driven. we're looking at about 90%, 95% that are also illiterate. we're having to teach them how to read the different gauges on the vehicle as well. any sort of safety warning. >> last november, literacy courses were voluntary. only 13,000 of the nearly 200,000 security forces enrolled. u.s. officials acknowledge that last year they thought the trending was so bad it was deemed a failure, but they believed they'd made great strides this year. that has meant revamping the program almost entirely. in addi...