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And then you can see,

like, the body parts.

You can identify,

like, that could

be the lower half of his body,

and that could be the leg.

And then sometimes you'll

stick around and watch

family come in and get them.

Or like, pick up the parts

and put their family member

in a blanket.

And a couple of people hold

on to a corner of the blanket

and carry him back

to their compound.

According to my

mental health records,

I was high risk for

suicide because of the way

I acted about my job.

My psychologist called

my first Sergeant

and he recommended that

I be possibly moved

to anything that wasn't

involving watching

people die all the time.

And the first Sergeant said

that our team was undermanned

and that they absolutely

needed me to work mission.

So he would look into

it, but never returned

my psychologist phone calls.

And never gave him

any indications

that I was gonna be

moved to a better

job and I obviously wasn't.

I stayed doing that job until

the last possible moment

when they had to let

me out of process

because I was actually

getting out of the military.

So I guess that's the

cost of a human life

because the fact that I was

on a suicide watch list,

and they still wouldn't allow me

to do something else that might

help me, a little bit. Obviously

didn't matter to the military.

And that... that shows how

much the Air Force cares

about its intelligence troops.

Look down the bottom there.

There's ice on the steps too.

You could tell she'd

have a stressful day

if she'd call me up, and she'd

be crying, or she'd be upset.

But then she couldn't

talk about it.

And then when you ask her, well

you... can you talk to anybody

else about it?

Well, no we're not supposed

to talk to anybody.

So she was having

more and more issues

each day that things went on.

A mom knows these

things. And then

when you hear your daughter

talking to you on the phone,

and you can tell that

she's in trouble.

Just by the emotion

and the inflection

in the stress that you

could hear in her voice,

I knew she was in trouble.

And the only thing I could do

is just stay in touch with her

on a daily basis, so she felt

like she had someone there.

Because I have a feeling if

somebody wasn't there for her,

she wouldn't be here right now.

And her friends, a lot of them

were in the same boat she was.

All drinking. All carrying

on. Trying to forget the pain.

HEATHER (ON VIDEO): I've... I'm

just scared. I'm always scared.

All those little kids were

just scared to go outside.

WOMAN (ON VIDEO):

Now I would like

to play a clip of

President Obama

addressing US drone

warfare at National Defense

University in Washington DC.

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