Phony war hero, but not a murderer (as the term was intended). Bear in mind that some here consider self defense murder, even here on this conservative site.
I am surprised that OK of all places would do this. It looks like it was self defense.
Bear in mind that a handful of people here are not disturbed by a fake war hero claiming fake war wounds as long as he does something that fits their own Walter Mitty fantasies.
He was a Pharmacist, not a combat arms platoon leader.
“He said, ‘I killed a lot of people there, but I had to do it. I dream about it every night.’ Ersland said he got hurt there (Gulf War) and that was why he was wearing the medical back and front brace,” the detective reported.
The detective quoted Ersland as saying, “So, I have killed a number of people with a .50-caliber” and “I was a platoon leader from Fort Bragg.” The detective reported Ersland said he was in the Army until he got hurt and then the Air Force let him join because there was a high demand for pharmacists.
Ersland left the Army in February 1989, well before the Gulf War, records show. His first assignment after joining the Air Force was the Altus Air Force Base hospital.”
“Instead, Jerome Jay Ers-land spent the war in 1991 as the pharmacy chief at the military hospital at Altus Air Force Base in southwestern Oklahoma, records show.”