“”There will be also be questions about why Hasan’s fragile state was not spotted by his fellow psychiatrists.”"
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/06/nidal-malik-hasan-fort-hood-shooting

Is there any hope of the comments going down the way again - & of my spell checker not picking up whatever script you use to run this site??????

Life gets on top of you when you’re not that good at dealing with it.

Your no better from the words that you just spoke, well typed.

AND, officers dont have contracts like enlisted. He has to SIGN one himself every 2 years. He was a MAJOR, he has been signing them for a while. Boo hoo, you kept SIGNING the contracts YOURSELF, and you woke up one day and decided to not do it? STOP RE-ENLISTING. HE SIGNED HIMSELF, jackass. And he signed atleast 2 or 3 since the wars started, LAME.

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/media/image/1283819/index.html

From all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney.

The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?)

Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real ticked me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay.

The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me.

I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.

This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.

LEARN FROM THIS. Next time someone wants out, just let them go. They won’t be much good to you if they aren’t on your side.

Also let this be a lesson to our president. If you reinstate a draft and i get drafted i will for sure kill my own team. I find the middle east to be the victim, i would not help hurt innocent people there for some greedy political puppets.

Its been said he is a Conscientious Objector, strange he managed to slay so many, or did he just object to killing what his country perceived to be the enemy?

Which brings me back to treachery.

I emailed a friend that day as I knew his grandson was in the US military , and also he was based in Texas, but it was Fort Bliss, and besides Chris is on his 3rd tour in Afghanistan. He’s 24.

That is Patriotism+