[syriacus]

his job would have been the same that he was doing at Fort Hood, treating PTSD.

I imagine he knew that.

And since he still did not want to be deployed, he should have openly refused to go, instead of shooting people who were being deployed.

[Eva]

Of course Hasan knew that he would not be in the front lines. He knew that there was really no excuse for refusing deployment, except that he was using it as an excuse to get out of the military.