to what he perceived was lacking leadership within his unit. we will be back in court next on january 12th. aym ayman, back to you. i want to bring in military analyst and medal of honor recipient colonel jack. i want to get your initial reaction to the charges. what do you make of the procedures that happened today? well, this is a standard article 39 hearing. there will be another one later on when he can express whether or not he wants to have what he wants the panel to look like, if he s going to take a court, or whether or not he wants to have the judge alone hear the case. so this is just preliminary, it s a standard procedure. what is interesting, however, is that he delayed making his decision. typically defendants will state right away what they want to do. obviously he hasn t decided yet and his attorneys have not yet