Mike Bauer

Sergeant Vince Burton is still on the fence.

On the one hand, Ajay did appear torn up over his marital problems.

On the other, he seemed to be coping.

Would you be telling me about your ultra marathon if you were just going to end it all?

Would you even be planning to go run at the punch bowl, which is an ugly area anyway?

For fact-checking purposes, we want to make clear.

The punch bowl is not ugly.

But go on, Vince.

For Ajay's running buddy, Randy Meggardly, there's no question.

Because he says Ajay was acting strangely, even more strangely than usual, in the weeks before his disappearance.

He says, you know...

Ajay said similar things to Dave Rathbun, but he didn't put a lot of stock into any of the statements because he says Ajay is just a weird guy.

Our unit was next to a big giant duck pond.

And one of the ways we used to make jokes about each other is we kind of like, where do you fit in the duck pond?

John was, and I don't want to malign him, but he was one of the oddest ducks in the pond, which is good, right?

You need them.

You don't want everybody swimming the same.

Initially, Rathbun was open to the possibility of suicide, but he's become increasingly skeptical over time.

Because if Ajay had killed himself, he thinks his body or some trace of him would have turned up by now.

So Ajay's colleagues are divided on what happened to him.