meanwhile, at the nco club.'s friend noticed he wasn't using the telephone in the lobby as he would later claim. and when chris returned, his friends noticed he wasn't wearing the jacket he had on earlier. he had left it by mistake in his bedroom, captured on film for all to see. chris davis ignored dorothy's cries for help, the ones articulated so clearly in her notes and diary. instead, he used them against her. he had simply destroyed those letters, then they wouldn't have been there for us to examine. >> if he had not licked those envelopes, if he had not done that, he would have walked free. >> chris dave was found guilty of his wife's murder. he was dishonorably discharged from the army and sentenced to life in prison. >> chris is cold-blooded. he's sick. he's demented. if he says he's not, he's a blatant liar. i've seen it firsthand, how sick, evil this man can be. i saw it. >> chris, was very, very money hungry, and that what he was looking at by the death of dorothy was freedom. he didn't have to worry

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>> there's something to be said for a young marine nco. you send to us combat and we get knocked down, and our ammunition and what we thrive to do is to help others and just keeps going. some organizations may have you believe that we're all in a very sad state. but i'm here to tell you the wounded warriors especially my marine brothers like kyle, we're wide open. i had the opportunity to work for the house veterans affairs committee, and we set that up as a formal exercise when i left, and kyle was right there as a corporal, ready to take that on. a little background, when i got there, pretty much only officers and a few select staff ncos were able to do it. i changed their mind as a lowly staff sergeant and then followed by corporal kyle carpenter who just knocked that position out of the park and did a lot for ours nation's veterans. a lot that people will never know about. kyle spent two and a half years in the hospital and spent a year work along capitol hill every day to help our nation's veterans, maybe of them for our generation, v

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this was a discipline problem for the nco's and the officers because they want to keep the weight under 225 pounds total on those horses. one of the leadership's disciplinary task was to inspect the troopers equipment. the troopers may be comfortable in the field. the leadership wants to keep these load as light as possible. leadership,d volunteer, cavalry leaders, don't really understand kind of that science of leadership or what you wind up with was large numbers, numbers in the hundreds of thousands of horses that are ruined and are ultimately put down or die because the leadership and the soldiers don't know what they are doing. if you don't take care of the horse, the horse dies. it was important that the load is as light as possible. as would be on the font and back of the saddle. they bring the design back from europe in 1850's. justrmy adopts it in 1859, before the civil war and it remains the standard army saddle from the history of the u.s. cavalry. officially isry disbanded as a branch of the army in 1948. this early model of 1859, if you look at the picture here, you'll see

army, up to the level of colonel, were welcome to apply in the voluntary army. 75% of officers and ncos were from the former army. we paid all of the other officers a pension calculated to be higher than they would have gotten under saddam hussein. the idea they didn't have money or looked for money was not true. it was not because they tnt didn't have money. it was because they didn't want a democratic country. we did produce a professional iraqi army. al-maliki, began to purge officers right down to the battalion level. >> this is who you say was democratically elected. >> the democratic -- hitly was elected. >> that may be the case. >> the contradiction in what you are saying. >> no, it's not. eye has iraq has a democratically effected government. >> but that led to where we are now but isn't in any way partly your responsibility. that's what i don't understand. that's the contradiction i'm referring to. >> erin, we went into iraq to get rid of osama bin laden. at the end of which we had two choices. we either tried to set up some kind of representative government or take some colone

and by the time i left 14 months later 75% of the officers and ncos in the new army were from the old army. we had vetted them and they were in the army. third point. that army with our help defeated al qaeda. people forget this. by 2008, end of 2008, al qaeda had been defeated by the iraqi army. it was a well-trained army so so you say why is it screwed up now? because as i mentioned earlier, al-maliki after we withdrew our troops basically started to purge down through the ranks even down to the battalion level putting in his partisans who were not certainly most of them tra trained and anybody who knows anything about the military knows that the unit leader is the key. if you don't trust the captain or major who's telling you to fight these isis guys, if you think this guy doesn't know what he's doing because he used to be selling rugs in' wan nia, you're not going to fight for him. and we saw a very quick collapse along those lines, particularly in mosuls. >> let's get to calls. paul is up first in tennessee. republican caller. good morning, paul. >> >> caller: good morning. i wan

that could include their ncos and the officers above them. there are also during my time in afghanistan, there were a great deal -- there was a great deal of effort expended to make sure that there were preventive mental health clinics in places where soldiers could go. i cannot speak to the specifics of any of this with regards to bergdahl, though. >> but there's a system in place to -- to monitor members of the armed forces, to ensure that we are understanding the impact of being in combat and the stresses of their service? >> that's my understanding. especially over the last decade. >> and in addition to that, one of the reasons we -- there's a process to conduct a hearing and an investigation and a review of those facts to make a determination as to whether or not someone has deserted or something else is going on. is that right? >> absolutely. >> and there's a process that will happen in fact in this case as it relates to this individual. >> in fact, the department of defense earlier this week announced that there will be a two-star gene

> when you were conducting missions in the days and weeks after his disappearance, did any of your ncos or your platoon company commander leader, did he risk himself if you were to find him on the battlefield? >> our main focus, at that point, was just trying to find him and get him back. it didn't matter how, who or when. that was our main focus from the time he left until about 2 1/2 months later. >> were you asked to sign an article 59? >> i was asked to sign an immediate gag order. there were other people in my platoon who were asked to sign an mda with a field-grade officer witness them sign it. >> the gentleman's time is expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from rhode island. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >>> dr. jacobson, obviously, we've heard testimony today and there have been some reports of some unusual behavior atributed to sergeant bergdahl. obviously, our soldiers are able to sustain the stresses of combat without experiencing unusual behaviors. is there a system or process in place to evaluate the behavior of a soldier? to make a determination as to whether or not i

that's why it's so bornt to have well-trained ncos. and to ensure that they all get home alive. >> i do know this. i don't know very much about him or his family or what he was going through, where his mind was going through. i hope it will be determined, as you have cig jested. i think that's fair. but i do know this, that so many of our young men and women are coming home and are stressed out and are mentally unstable. i would not like to think that they would not be subject to due process if they committed a crime. so, with that, i want to thank you, thank you for all of your service. again, mr. and mrs. andrews, i'm so sorry for your loss. mr. chairman, i waive the rest of my time! just so the record is clear, mr. andrews served in the united states air force. so all four of you all, thank you for your service. >> thank you for your service, sir. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. and mrs. andrews, thank you for the sacrifice of what you went through. i, as a gratefu

that's why it's so important to have well-traininged ncos, good leaders in those positions to guide these troops through something that's unbelievably stressful and ensure they all get home alive. >> i do know this. i don't know much about mr. bergdahl or his family or what he was going through, what his mind was going through. i hope that will be determined as you have suggested. i think that's fair. but i do know this. so many of our young men and women are coming home, and they have been stressed out and are mentally unstable, and i would not like to think that they would not be subject to due process if they committed a crime. with that, i just want to thank all of you for yourselves again, mr. and mrs. andrews, really i'm so sorry for your loss, and mr. chair, i waive the rest of my time. >> just so the record is clear, mr. andrews served in the united states air force. so all four of y'all, thank you for your service. >> thank you for your service, sir. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. yoho for five years. >> thank you, mr. chairman, panelists, i appreciate yo

secretary, it's good to see you again and just want to say how great it is to see a member of the nco corps, the backbone of our military at the head of the dod. i served in iraq with a vietnam veteran e-7 who went back over at 59 years old. didn't make it home and he probably is smiling and cussing at me right now and telling me i better treat you right. look, i think your background and the background of all of us who have worn a uniform and as you said been in combat informs how we feel about the release of sergeant bergdahl as well as how we feel about someone who abandons their post and exposes their buddies to attack by the enemy. however, it's never been the practice of the united states to leave one of our own behind on the battlefield regardless of the circumstances of their disappearance. we do everything we can to bring them home. you don't leave them to be dealt with by the enemy. it's not who we are as a country. it's not who we are as a military. now, that doesn't mean that there are not questions that need to be answered about the circumstances around his departure from

secretary, it's good to see you again and just want to say how great it is to see a member of the nco corps, the backbone of our military at the head of the dod. i served in iraq with a vietnam veteran e-7 who went back over at 59 years old. didn't make it home and he probably is smiling and cussing at me right now and telling me i better treat you right. look, i think your background and the background of all of us who have worn a uniform and as you said been in combat informs how we feel about the release of sergeant bergdahl as well as how we feel about someone who abandons their post and exposes their buddies to attack by the enemy. however, it's never been the practice of the united states to leave one of our own behind on the battlefield regardless of the circumstances of their disappearance. we do everything we can to bring them home. you don't leave them to be dealt with by the enemy. it's not who we are as a country. it's not who we are as a military. now, that doesn't mean that there are not questions that need to be answered about the circumstances around his departure from

secretary, it's good to see you again and just want to say how great it is to see a member of the nco corps, the backbone of our military at the head of the dod. i served in iraq with a vietnam veteran e-7 who went back over at 59 years old. didn't make it home and he probably is smiling and cussing at me right now and telling me i better treat you right. look, i think your background and the background of all of us who have worn a uniform and as you said been in combat informs how we feel about the release of sergeant bergdahl as well as how we feel about someone who abandons their post and exposes their buddies to attack by the enemy. however, it's never been the practice of the united states to leave one of our own behind on the battlefield regardless of the circumstances of their disappearance. we do everything we can to bring them home. you don't leave them to be dealt with by the enemy. it's not who we are as a country. it's not who we are as a military. now, that doesn't mean that there are not questions that need to be answered about the circumstances around his departure from