grades weren't good enough to go to college so i decided to go into the marine corps, went to parris island boot camp and it was fine from there on in. the base is like a little city and it's like we got in our own family and they got everything that you need, they got all kinds of education, all kind of courses for leadership and so it's a really good place to be in the marine corps. >> during his fifth year in the marines he took a medical leave when he was diagnosed with schizoprenoform when he suffered from delusions. >> i hallucinate, a whole bunch of things i thought was going on inside my head. i decided to get out, get back to my family and take things easy. >> six months after leaving the military burden was arrested after he crashed his car into military gates at the airport. >> i thought people were chasing me, trying to kill me so that explains it all running to the gate. i was trying to get away. >> burden admits taking four ecstasy tablets that night and prosecutors said he had almost 300 tablets in his glove box. >> decided to take those pills and that's when it went downhill