blamed. i feel he is a victim of a terrible, terrible war. and usuallyy when that is happens it is related to ptsb. they hired john henry brown and told reporters that sergeant bales had sustained two injuries in iraq . afghanistan was the fourth combat. and joinsing me is janine. he could be defended by the jag unit but he hired a private attorney. what does this mean in the context of his legal position. i think it is important that his family did hire a defense attorney. he is and can be represented in the military court by assigned counsel. this has worl wide symbolism and the administration will go
point. on the other hand, terrible stress. at what point are there too many tours? there are cases of seven to eight tours, that s not unheard of. three to four is certainly a common situation. and when you see the issues of at least one in seven afghan soldiers deserting the military in their first six months in afghanistan, at what point do you have diminishing returns, that force, getting that experience you re talking about, versus the decrease in efficiency because of perhaps mental issues. he lost the sound. we had some technical difficulties. if we can get whack to him, we will that for you later in the show, discussing some of the challenges with the professional military and what we re seeing could be indication with sergeant bales. a threat at the same home barracks as staff sergeant bales in washington state received a threat from a soldier who said he would blow up the barracks.
blamed. i feel he is a victim of a terrible, terrible war. and usuallyy when that is happens it is related to ptsb. they hired john henry brown and told reporters that sergeant bales had sustained two injuries in iraq . afghanistan was the fourth combat. and joinsing me is janine. he could be defended by the jag unit but he hired a private attorney. what does this mean in the context of his legal position. i think it is important that his family did hire a defense attorney. he is and can be represented in the military court by assigned counsel. this has worl wide symbolism and the administration will go full and it is important for
might feel the hardships or the bad of your life. you have this captain saying it s not about the tours or the amount of time the men and women are serving in this country. look, in regard to sergeant bales, he been in the army for 11 years. he got passed over for sergeant first class. not everybody makes sergeant first class in 11 years. i think he s got an excellent attorney. he understands these issues. it s a lot of smoke. i just came home from iraq for the second tour. the big question is how did you only go one time. this guy went three times. my brother served in iraq twice, afghanistan once. everyone is doing these types of tour tours. the attorney can call about ptsd, the fact remains that the soldier signed off that he had to pass all this predeployment training and he deployed. he isn t on any medication or he wouldn t be able to carry a
standing by a devoted father and husband. live to john yang. the what s expected to happen today during the scheduled meeting between bales and had his lawyer? reporter: the lawyer says this will be the first time the defense team is able to hear the full story from the staff sergeant. and also to get a face-to-face assessment of the guy. all their previous conversations have been on the phone. they ve been relatively brief. when the attorneys, the civilian defense team arrived, they were hoping to go straight to the detention center and interview the staff sergeant, their client, but they are unable to. that meeting is taking place today, richard. john, family and friends of sergeant bales now talking, all of them are stunned. but what else are they saying about bales? reporter: well, it really is the reaction of shock both this the seattle neighborhood where he lives now, where neighbors describe him as a good guy, a good father, a good neighbor.