[Mad Dawg]

Nope. The marine MIGHT have had a disability which should have been caught in basic. The comparison was not a child to a marine but parents attributing an involuntary symptom of a deadly disease to a moral failing and a poster attributing what he could not know not to be a symptom of a neurological disorder to a moral failing.

If we KNOW the guy did not have a sleep or other disorder then we can call him lazy. If we don't know it, to call him lazy is unreasonable and immoral.

I don't care how strong and principled one's character is. Will cannot override narcolepsy.

[driftdiver]

99% chance it was laziness

1% it was some rare disease

I know where I’d risk my life

[rbmillerjr]

“If we KNOW the guy did not have a sleep or other disorder then we can call him lazy. If we don’t know it, to call him lazy is unreasonable and immoral.”

I understand your empathy for the guy, you were a chaplain in the military. That was your job. But the NCOs and Officers on the line have to think of the other guys that he potentially endangered, four times. I really don’t care about why he fell asleep. He fell asleep in a combat zone. he was a danger to his unit. He should have been shipped out asap.

“I don’t care how strong and principled one’s character is. Will cannot override narcolepsy.”

He didn’t have narcolepsy. It’s also immoral and unreasonable to deflect responsibility from a soldier for no proven reason. Unless you, of course, no he had narcolepsy.