I've heard that Casey actually joined the military to get away from his mother.
Who could blame him???
If you go back to the A-10 suicidal crash (out of Tucson) back in the early 90s...that Air Force Captain was a product of a very similiar family. The minute he finished college and joined the Air Force as a pilot...his religious conviction mother got all hyper and constantly "harass" him about that. When he finished pilot school...because he was a very capable trainer...they kept him there strictly as a trainer of the A-10 aircraft. His mom cooled slightly after that...but when he eventually got his first unit assignment...to be sent overseas and possibly drop bombs...she got extreme on him getting out. Her pressure eventually got him to the point where he committed suicide. The Air Force was very careful at the end when they wrote the entire report. They didn't say that parental pressure was stressed upon the guy...but it was obvious that she constantly made this issue number one.
I think Casey would be greatly upset at this entire episode now. This is not the kind of thing you'd want to see. Its both sad and tragic that this woman has lost total grasp of reality and lives in some dreamworld. And its even more sad that CNN sits there and attempting to make a story out out of this.
I can see why he would do that. She's a loon.