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Cetera? >> well, i think the president is -- there is a lot that people comment on that he's not going to change. and it's putting the right people around him with the right chemistry, understanding each other's weaknesses and strengths. you know, i shared a story with one of the people on the plane earlier when i first came into the military, a lesson of general patriua, work hard, play hard, love the one you're with. i would love to see in a highly functioning organization you love the people you're with. that might mean your squad leader, platoon sergeant. maybe there is a family member at ...

Quite know what your mission is. how does that feel? >> carol as your initial segment pointed out there are sides parts on the left and right. for a military member the only left or right they have is the man or woman next to them. and their only concern is doing that you are job. making sure that when the light goes on that they are able to perform to the best of their ability and that the platoon leader, platoon sergeant, things like that, they are there to make sure that people come home. and that is all that they are concerned with. just doing the job and coming home. >> the u.s. has spent...

A patrol by the pakistani border. gabriel was the platoon sergeant. >> you see different people. get down! >> reporter: incoming, the men sprinted to a bunker. first priority, roll call. >> torres? >> here, sir. >> reporter: make sure nobody's still out there exposed or worse -- >> you got all your people? >> reporter: some soldiers had been sleeping and showed up shirts off, flak jackets thrown on in flip-flops. the soldiers think that was an incoming rocket. they've all been accounting for and now are waiting for the all-clear. they filed out, the patrol was still a go. brian, even though th...

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...

>> so, immediately after we looked at our o.p., we couldn't find him. our platoon sergeant got on the radio and updated the command and they are like, hey, we're missing a soldier right now. this is what we're doing. we've done an extensive search of the o.p. we know he's not here. we immediately pushed out a patrol into the local village. we're kind of running on nothing at this point. we're just trying to find something we can grasp on to to get a decision or something. immediately as we left the base, two small boys walked up to us and said they found an american crawling through the weeds ...