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Saying, in part, it's the army's fault for taking bergdahl in and making him a soldier. your thoughts? >> well, i think that there's a very big, you know, gap in what might be true and what's not true in that fact. psychological testing at the recruiting level -- i mean, i was a recruiter for a while. usually it's on recommendation based on whatever the person tells the recruiter at the time. he may have told his coast guard recruiter something and realized, oh, well, if i tell them that, they're not going to let me into the service. he wanted to join the service so badly that he may not have ...

Be extensively screening for mental health issues. i understand back in 2006, department of defense they established minimum mental health standards for deployment. can you talk about the current standards? >> it all starts at the recruiting level, when they bring someone in and you start working through the processing. it's not until you get in when the real medical background and medical care can start because of lots of different privacy and disclosure issues. so the fact that we're starting to do that screening now is very important not just for the new enlist tee but those that have multi...