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He has improved unit morale, received glowing reviews and promotions under republican and democrat presidents. and he's been given a clean vet from the fbi. here's the question, it is not clear if that is enough to save jackson. senators say the va committee say they have gotten similar stories from 20 current and former military who worked alongside. jon tester who first revealed the allegations told nbc, they're troubling. >> i think all of these thing, whether it's prescription drugs, doling them out. or the intoxication at the workplace, whether that plays into the leadership that the va n...

Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to respond on his facebook page saying like any american, he is innocent until proven guilty. our army's leaders will not look away from misconduct if it occurred. a 2012 rolling stone article detailed a seemingly disillusioned bergdahl and a unit in trouble, saying from the start everything seemed to go wrong. when a lieutenant was removed from duty, it was, quote, quickly followed by a collapse in unit morale and an almost complete breakdown of authority. but bergdahl's former team leader insists allegations the men weren't doing their jobs corr...

Organization that's been -- i learned about them while being deployed. i feel like that we're ready and i feel like my colleagues and my fellow soldiers and service members are ready. >> senator udall, what's it like when you hear someone like charlie being able to talk about her life publicly on television without fear of retribution? >> we're all so proud of her. there are thousands of other stories like charlie's. what she underlines is that this will actually help unit morale, unit cohesion and our recruitingests because there's so many americans who want to serve who are gay and the lesso...

Troops around the world, selected randomly, we're told. the goal here is to find out what the troops think about the impact of repealing don't ask, don't tell, the policy, the law that prohibits gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military. as you recall, president obama wants that repealed. and there is this survey under way to say to the troops it's going to be repealed by congress, we hope. and if it is, what do you think? what do you think the impact would be? so a number of questions now being asked, as you say, some of them very specific. they ask about -- to start with, the imp...

Zone. here's some questions they asked about all of that. for example, tell us about the impact on unit morale or readiness. f the commander of your unit was openly guy or lesbian. in a war zone. if you have to share a room, bathroom, open base showers which is what happens in a war zone, of course, how would you react if there were openly gay or lesbian members of your unit? would you just carry on with your military life as usual? would you have some problem with it? what would you do about all of it? basically, would repeal of don't ask, don't tell have such an impact on military service th...