malcolm nance, a specialist in the military program known as ser, survival, evasion and recovery. >> he falls into that nebulous gray area between prisoner of war because he was a combatant, and according to the geneva conventions there was a declared combat. and a hostage to the hakani network. >> another stage in the treatment, what is happening in this reintegration process? >> well, this is a critically important process that's going on with him. there is -- he is at the brook army hospital, melt processing, now he's going through more extensive treatment and his psychological reintegration into the united states and into the u.s. army. so that's very important step. because for the last five years he has been living in the environment where a he wasn't trained and b he's been under intense stress, intense psychological stress. so he needs to are brought back and reintegrated into our society and the force he came from. >> and by the stress you refer to, this would be different, after all we heard about vietnam and the prisoners of war in that venue nap but in this case we're tal