corps thinks and has thought for some years now. it was about a decade ago 2004, he's serbing in fallujah, iraq, at the height the war. he goes missing. the video turns up. he's blindfolded, a sword over his head. you look at that picture, a nice clean pressed uniform. not much of a hostage scenario. the marines basically once he turned up in lebanon thought he deserted. they brought him home. when he surfaced, he comes back to camp lejeune to face the music supposedly and then he goes missing again in 2005 for a number of years. they believe he spent most of that time in the middle east. apparently over the last several months had made some overtures that he wanted to come back to the united states. he'd reached out, a couple of timings they tried, for various reasons, it didn't work. there were some issues there