that last week we went to camp pendleton and i had met them that i had not seen in 10 years. i was a very powerful experience. we hiked up this long ridgeline into six miles there and back and we were memorialized. the 57 men killed in action in falluja and the battalion i was good and then there was also then you had taken their lives. the memorial service was not about the dead. it was about the living. there is a great story npr did yesterday, as a matter of fact which is about the platoon i was then in falluja. [applause] >> i have lots -- several. i have had two of my books made into films. one the return, which is a true story behind ingrourious basterds and it's a film that they made. and then there's been several documentaries for the history channel your her instance, there is a great game in falluja where they reenacted the ambush i was involved in. i was almost killed by chechen. they interviewed the man and they reenacted the entire ambush. one of my favorite books is called give me tomorrow, which is on the korean war. the same unit that we were in falluja, but i

an inmate and gilchrist, i observed inmate gill gilchrist on his knee his face and hands were in pendleton'srotch area. >> i'm going to say not guilty. it didn't look like what it was. the video cabinet is tall. he was standing there watching the movie, rewinding it. i was in the bottom half of the cabinet. putting away videos we'd already seen. and the officer came walking by. and i knew that it looked bad. i told him right -- >> certainly seems like there's sufficient evidence that there was something sexual going on. i'm going to find you guilty of group violation number 15, sexual misconduct. it is a class "b" which can be up to 90 days. i'm just going to go with 60 just like you had on the last one. 60 days disciplinary detention. 60 days earned time. do you wish to appeal this decision? >> no. >> no appeal? okay. >> he's going into dd because he was found guilty of disciplinary problems. so he is allowed two sets of clothes, two toothpaste, two deodorant, one toothbrush, two bars of soap, his bible. and there's what you're allowed in dd. >> basically this is it. you are stripped of eve

spent six years and stationed at camp pendleton three years. again as a family practitioner and began a family at that point and had a child there in guam. delivered hundreds of babies while i was there and spent my last year in charleston naval hospital and then eventually of course started my private practice in 1982 and then in louisiana. so you know, i can tell you there's no higher privilege to me as an american than wearing the uniform of the u.s. military. as far as the inefficiency, the bureaucracy, the government, you're quite right. the private sector can do so many things, much better and much cheaper than we can through our federal bureaucracy. and so i'm always encouraged for us to have the private sector do things but we have to have good oversight. there's a place again for government to be sure that the taxpayer money is certainly well looked after and that we're good stewards with that money. >> jersey girl in p. a. tweets, are you willing to cut the military budget to reduce the deficit? >> you know, as a member of congress i

i was stationed at cap pendleton for three years. again, as a family practitioner naval physician. two years on kuan -- guam. and i began a family there at that point. and then i spent my last year in charleston at the naval hospital. and then eventually, of course started my private practice in louisiana. so, you know, i can tell you there is no higher privilege to me as an american been wearing that uniform of the u.s. military. as far as the inefficiency or the bureaucracy of the government. you're quite right. the private sector can do so many things much better and much cheaper than we can through our federal bureaucracy. and so i'm always encouraged for us to have the private sector do things for us, but we have to have good oversight. there is a place, again, for governments to be sure that taxpayer money is certainly well looked after. and that we are good stewards with that money. host: jersey girl in pa tweets into you are we willing -- are you willing to cut the military budget to reduce the deficit? test them -- guest: the most important role i have is a member of congr