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>> by my coloring book. greg: what should he have this is a guy who not only committed treason which is a buzzword but he walked off post. without telling anyone with the intent of joining the televangelist is the army giving someone a $300,000 signing bonus for joining the taliban. to put this in perspective i lost my legs and that was 100,000-dollar life insurance on my legs. of the 300,000, 150,000 goes to someone who becomes a pow. his a choice is worth more than my misfortune and not to say that anyone owes me money but sometimes we are right for the purpose of being right other than bein...

Classified as having ptsd. so i think we have to make it -- we're way ahead of where we were in world war ii and vietnam. but more has to be done as far as mental health of our military. >> congressman, i want to bring brooke baldwin back in. she's at ft. hood. and suicide is a big issue at this post, brooke. it's part of the reason that soldiers aren't allowed to carry their personal weapons on post. right? >> that's exactly right. congressman king, nice to talk to you as well. here at ft. hood, here at ft. hood and elsewhere in the country, suicide is most definitely, as we've been reporting...

>> i would ask you to ask brook baldwin now at the main gate. are they searching vehicles coming on the base right this minute? are they searching every individual that enters the base as we speak? if that's not happening, how do you keep a gun off the base if someone wants to bring one on? >> brook, do you notice anything like that? >> reporter: i'm standing here at the base of the entrance. we're not allowed on. let me make that clear. there's traffic backing up as folks are turning in. that's a good question. i don't know. we were discussing this earlier with barbara and spider. if you live...

I'm trying to make. you can't turn a fort into a u.s. penitentiary and is do that search for thousands that commute on and off the base everyday much less the people that live there. as general spider marks said, you have 90,000 people on that base. that makes it a small city. roughly a little smaller than peor peoria, illinois had had 19 homicides last year, 13 by shootings. >> let me ask you this tom. what if you knew an army specialist was having problems, depressed, suffering from anxiety, seen a psychiatrist. what would you do as that person entered the post? >> how would you know that? h...

You have to keep it at home. if you have that, you have to register with a commander. i know that security folks are allowed to have it and law enforcement here on post are allowed to have it. but that's it. do you think that that is fair because i'm sure there are members of the military that say, i'm going and serving my country in iraq and afghanistan. you know, is it fair that i cannot be armed on post? >> first, we should look into the precinct security at checkpoints and also at -- is more security needed within the base itself. as far as carrying weapons, i think we should look at that....