how many troops would you have needed to retake bagram has some people have suggested? what would the taliban have taken that to mean? if we went in and retook bagram, if that were to happen, if that decision were ever made, we had contingencies to do that by the way. those were briefed. but that s a significant troop commitment, number one. you re looking at airborne corps, probably look at 10,000 or more additional forces. then you will have to secure bagram, declare kabul and secure, that would be additional forces. and then you would initiate a war with taliban, that s what you can do. would be fighting isis and the taliban and the casualties etc. i know a lot of people are talking about it. i wonder if the support would have been there if that decision had been made. i personally think the military conditions didn t warrant that. i think the military conditions warranted what we did when you saw the taliban
. this week the u.s. military is joining ten other countries in belgium for a special forces medical training at nato. it s designed to simulate real-life military conditions during an attack. nbc s medical correspondent dr. john torres is teaching the course. he joins me live from belgium. nice to see you. you are a veteran of the u.s. air force. you served 28 years, i think, including a tour of duty in iraq in 2004. why did you think this was important for you to be there to lead the training, and what s the goal? i just came from the simulation center where today and this week we ve been training the medical personnel to not only take care of patients in combat simulated environments. it s important they do this so when they are in combat they have the special understanding of what to do. and we ve been training the trainer. the goal is to train the personnel. they ll go back to their home
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so he fell initially in the middle of that street, a young child running loose a midst sniper fire. watch again with me. this hero, this man here, grabs this child, swoops him up, whisks him to safety, kind of behind a bit of wall that he can find. then goes back to grab the child s stray shoe. folks, this is life in syria right now. and this is just in to us here at cnn, and you have to watch closely. this video was shot sunday in the capital city of damascus. it appears the bolster planes, they re using civilians as human shields. these men are apparently being forced at gunpoint look at them on both sides to line up behind this tank. watch what happens. they re forced to kneel and then slowly they go from kneeling to ultimately laying on the ground, and it s hard to tell because i m not sure what is happening here, but we can semen carrying arms and one can surmise those are the guys calling the shots. laying down behind a tank, not something one would expect a perso