. >> i was not mentally prepared or emotionally prepared for what we saw at walter reed. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370 is about more than a missing jet liner. it's about 239 missing people. today, distraught, angry relatives showed up at a press briefing in malaysia and demanded more information. two thirds of the passengers were from china, three were american. 12 days after the boeing triple 7 vanished on a flight from kuala lumpur to beijing, president obama called the investigation a top property. cbs news has learned f.b.i. has taken a role. they will be analyzing the personal computers of the officer, and the flight simulator found in the captain's home. seth doane is in kuala lumpur for us tonight. seth. >> reporter: good evening to you, scott. malaysian authorities are hoping that the f.b.i. will be able to help them recover computer files erased from that flight simulator, about a month before that ill-fated flight. sen

from there he was evacuated to germany and from there back to walter reed army medical center. i stayed in iraq and completed my mission, heard from brian a few months later and an e-mail that was full of the type of typos and punctuation and spelling errors that i think a lot of people slip into in e-mail so i let that go, he's just being lazy like people are in e-mail and didn't have any sense of what it meant to have a traumatic brain injury. when he said looks like i'm going to be okay, i took that face value. these were the early days of the work. what and have thought then would be the early days of the war but they were. and the systems and services bear returning when the warriors need not in place. so when he recovered to the point at which as the doctors told him he could walk and talk and wipe his -- he was released from walter reed and sent back to fort campbell, ky, he got there two weeks before the rest of the division got back from the middle east and we started dating, the day my plane landed, figure 82004, just over a decade ago. and i am sure there were signs

but it's not like walter reed and the hospital in san antonio where if you're burned or shot or you lose a limb, your medical care is just off the charts uniformly great. the mental health system for these returning soldiers, and, let's be honest, their families is a unfolding, messy thing. >> well, i have a different response to that number. in the first place, most -- i agree that all of those numbers are dodgy, but i think they're on the low side because they don't include when they count those suicides members who have already resigned from the service. they also don't factor in things that may be even larger causes of death that are certainly connect with the the war experience; the high risk behavior that veterans commonly engage in from drug abuse and be alcohol abuse to motorcycle accidents. the number of veterans killed on motorcycles near military bases is extraordinary across the country. and nobody, the pentagon doesn't keep track of any of those numbers. they are dug up by everyday working journalists at small papers across the country. and if you look hard enough, you can s

at walter reed one of the case managers said it has been more than 18 months you will not see further gains. . . the downside, the put side is that we but that the internal injunction against seeking help. sometimes wonder one of us had been a civilian if it would have when eased -- of the civilian might have cracked earlier and said, like, no, no. we have to go ask for help. we can't do this. in the book that think away our parallel roads to recovery. but it would be interesting to lay out a time line and see how that works. that will beat a thing to do. the other weird part of it was that one of my coping mechanisms became to be hyper controlling. like i will manage every aspect of our lives. everything will be completely perfectly organized and every moment in time. that was my way of handling the fact that things were in total crisis. and when he got better if. to let him grow and for me to the step back. had this feeling like i was holding a cat's cradle. by let go one to read everything will fall apart and it was really, really difficult for me a throwaway, let's go and realize

. >> i was not mentally prepared or emotionally prepared for what we saw at walter reed.oning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

which as the doctors told him, he could walk and talk and wipe his own ass, he was released from walter reed and sent back to fort kamel kentucky where the 101st is based. he got there about two weeks before the rest of the division got back from the middle east, and we started dating the day that my plane landed, federal aid, 2004, such as over a decade ago. and i'm sure there were signs then of his cognitive and psychological problems, but i was pretty distracted by my own reintegration and did not necessarily notice of them. we were busy partying and getting drunk and staying up all night because we had a month of block leave. so in that heady early time when we're just thrilled to be alive and getting drunk a lot, didn't notice what was coming. we were very quickly deeply emotionally involved. then i started going back to work and had to get up bright and early every morning to go into pt, and i to go into my job and train soldiers and get ready to redeploy to get our unit ready to go back overseas. and brian c. unit told him to stay home. -- bryans unit. he was still newly, early enough

at walter reed one of the case managers said it has been more than 18 months you will not see further gains. . . the downside, the put side is that we but that the internal injunction against seeking help. sometimes wonder one of us had been a civilian if it would have when eased -- of the civilian might have cracked earlier and said, like, no, no. we have to go ask for help. we can't do this. in the book that think away our parallel roads to recovery. but it would be interesting to lay out a time line and see how that works. that will beat a thing to do. the other weird part of it was that one of my coping mechanisms became to be hyper controlling. like i will manage every aspect of our lives. everything will be completely perfectly organized and every moment in time. that was my way of handling the fact that things were in total crisis. and when he got better if. to let him grow and for me to the step back. had this feeling like i was holding a cat's cradle. by let go one to read everything will fall apart and it was really, really difficult for me a throwaway, let's go and realize

and finally we're going to work on this overmedication thing when i went to walter reed after the big scandal there and went from room to room in the fisher house and other places over there. every single room, the dresser was all alcohol bottles and pill bottles. and i didn't see one sign for group therapy for addiction treatment. and i began then realizing we had a huge overmedication problem when it comes to mental health in the military. >> if i could ask about your question about the attorney, from reporting to article 32, i had nobody, nobody at all. the thing is that when it came to court-martial time, i was drilled. being revictimized so many times and nobody had the prosecutor. they could only do so much. saying, listen, did you ask for this? you wanted this. and the judge not to intervene, it was disgusting. >> believe me, i have been in a courtroom as a prosecutor when a judge did intervene, when there were appropriate questions and the judge just completely did not make the right ruling. and, you know, i think judges are better today than they were 20 years ago. we are wor

from there he was evacuated to germany and from there back to walter reed army medical center. i stayed in iraq and completed my mission, heard from brian a few months later in an e-mail that was full of type of typos and punctuation and spelling errors that i think a lot of people slip into in e-mail, so i just let that go. i thought, oh, he's just being lazy like people are in e-mail and didn't have any really any sense of what it meant to to have a traumatic brain injury. and when he said looks like i'm going to be okay, i just took that at face value. these were the early days of the war, and wouldn't have thought then would be the early days of the war, but they were. and the systems and services that returning wounded warriors needed were really not in place. so when he had recovered to a point at which the doctors told him he could walk and talk and wipe his own ass, he was released from walter reed and sent back to fort campbell, kentucky, where the 101st is based. he got there about two weeks before the rest of the division got back from the middle east, and we started

let me tell you that he tells me a story about one serviceman who was going to die he met him at walter reed hospital and that servicemen miraculously recovered he didn't really speak otherwise of no visit any it always pained him to doing that but he never felt responsible though to be feel that he was sending them to the bed he was sending them on a righteous cause that's correct you are absolutely correct about that. now everybody should be a little pained and you know even in a totally justifiable war i'm sure roosevelt was pained over the losses of normandy how could you not be yeah we do not be so obvious get inside that what do you make of this man that remains likable it may be unfair i don't know what's fair and what's unfair here but i felt that in the end he was so used to selling selling this selling that selling the other thing that it became all performance it was hard really to find the real rumsfeld anymore. that he so desperately wants to believe that his tenure is terry of defense second go round. was successful he argued with me he did not like the very end of the movie ne

after over a year in walter reed, the commonwealth of massachusetts is proud to say to neck, welcome home. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of the department of energy's recent loan guarantee for plant vogeln georgia. it's the first nuclear power plant built in the united states in almost three decades and i'm proud to represent the district where our nation's nuclear renaissance has begun. throughout my time in congress i have supported the use of nuclear power as part of a comprehensive energy program. mr. barrow: the plant will create the kind of good-paying jobs we need. it will create 5,000 jobs at the height of construction and 800 permanent jobs after construction is complete. the federal government's guarantee is expected to save georgia electric companies nearly a quarter billion dollars in expense. this is exactly the sort of investment the federal

like a dirty little secret that they just wanted to just do away with, and the psychologists at walter reed, bethesda, you know, didn't -- they wanted to either put you in groups that were either combat related, or other mental illnesses, and then, you know, when you're in these groups and you're talking about this, you just don't feel comfortable talking about it. so then they move you to an outpatient care, which, you know, is the same thing, they throw drugs at you. and it could be, you know, four or five different prescription drugs, and the thing is, is they don't want you to commit suicide, but what's the side effects of these medications? a lot of these medications, is suicide. so, you know, as for the dod, they did absolutely nothing for me but just pretty much, you know, gave me a 30% discharge of the dod for ptsd, and sent me on my way. as for the v.a., i only seen a counselor, one counselor through my whole therapy, who was not trained in military sexual trauma. he mostly trained at vietnam vets, you know, i looked for different treatment facilities, and different programs at my

when you still at walter reed at one point the one in this case managers said, when he was two years post injury, it's been more than 18 months, you will never see further gains. that was the most horrible thing we heard to be told that he wouldn't get any better. but he did. it just took a lot longer. there were definite ways, the fact were both veterans allowed us to help each other more. so if we went to wal-mart and i had a complete meltdown from the awful mess of it, he never judged me. he never would say like what is your problem? why can't you just make it through the checkout line? you have a full part -- cart of stuff. he never made me, belittled me or maybe feel like there was something wrong with me for not being able to handle it. that was great, that because he was a fellow combat veteran he just understood. he got it and we didn't have to talk about it. i didn't have to explain it. he just understood. i could do that with him to an extent, though not obviously i could understand the injury. the downside, the flip side to that is that we both had the internal injunction

and finally we're going to work on this overmedication thing when i went to walter reed after the big scandal there and went from room to room in the fisher house and other places over there. every single room, the dresser was all alcohol bottles and pill bottles. and i didn't see one sign for group therapy for addiction treatment. and i began then realizing we had a huge overmedication problem when it comes to mental health in the military. >> if i could ask about your question about the attorney, from reporting to article 32, i had nobody, nobody at all. the thing is that when it came to court-martial time, i was drilled. being revictimized so many times and nobody had the prosecutor. they could only do so much. saying, listen, did you ask for this? you wanted this. and the judge not to intervene, it was disgusting. >> believe me, i have been in a courtroom as a prosecutor when a judge did intervene, when there were appropriate questions and the judge just completely did not make the right ruling. and, you know, i think judges are better today than they were 20 years ago. we are wor