Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
I served with Bales for three years as his Platoon Leader. He is an absolutely outstanding Soldier, and what has transpired here is so out of character, I don't even know where to start. Please keep his wife and two young kids in your thoughts and prayers. He needs help. Hopefully he'll get it.
I hope his wife and children have been whisked off to a very secure place. I had read earlier that he had a traumatic brain injury but had been declared fit to serve and deployed to Afghanistan in spite of it.
Our nations troops have literally been deployed into combat since Desert Storm almost non stop. During this time both congress and sitting presidents gutted the military. These guys are seeing far more repeated carnage over a longer period of time than any other time frame in our history.
The human mind is capable of only so much carnage before undesirable results surface. One of the first is PTSD. You can not get over PTSD in weeks, months, or in some cases a few years. No pill can really stop it as it is a decompressing of sorts of looking at events and putting them where they belong. Re-injury during this process compounds it. That is true no matter what circumstances lead up too PTSD.
If the reports of his injury are accurate the foot injury should have and in previous times in fact would have ended his career. Those safeguards were there for reasons more than besides how far a man could march.
If he snapped I can understand it. He should not have been pushed too that point. I have also been hearing for years that some in combat have been given antidepressants too deal with the stresses. IF that is policy it needs to end now as it can get people killed. The last thing needed on the battlefield is someone tripping. By tripping I mean hallucinating and such medications can induce this in some persons.
I'll give him a huge benefit of the doubt as too what happened and be thankful it wasn't me or my own facing what that man has. Your knowledge of his as well of what we have been told of his record says he is a fine soldier. We may never know what really happened and he may never even know why it happened. And it could have been a case of he knew or highly suspected a target was living there. The cowards just don't come out and fight a battle. Homes are their nest and civilians won't give the thugs up. How many times does a reasonable man let them attack their units and retreat? Once would be my answer. Prayers for him and his family.
In fact, Bush after 911, allow in more Muslims than the previous two decades.
Nice huh
Thanks Bush!
We will see if this non commissioned officer will receive the same punishment as Major Nidal Milik Hasan.
I don’t think we have the full story. This story doesn’t make sense. I just can’t imagine someone just walking off post in a war-zone all on his own, walking past sentries unchallenged, etc. Too many things just don’t seem to add up.
God bless you for your Service!
Alan
ping...
We are fighting thugs who don't abide by the Geneva Convention. This man's family, friends, neighbors, ect... will now become targets for sleepers.
Yeah, he may be safe in Leavenworth but I guarantee his family, friends, and co-workers aren't given the same protection.
In my opinion, this is an impeachable offense. Eric Holder, Leon Panneta and Barack Obama should all be charged for treason! This isn't a BJ in the Oval Office, this is putting American citizens on a hit list.
Meanwhile, Holder will keep on pestering NYPD to quit stopping terrorist attacks.
We need to quit the in fighting. Obama needs to be defeated. This guy wants our troops dead, never forget the Navy Seals murdered in that helicopter that all military experts state they never should have been on.
Under the Constitution Zero would be immediately arrested by the Secret Service along with his crooked Attorney General and they would be put on trial from treason against the USA.
There is no way for Sgt. Bales to avoid hard time (assuming what we have been told is true), but the real crime here is a fourth deployment after a TBI.
If it were up to me I'd put him in a soft-secured re-hab facility just long enough for the public to forget...then let him go home to his family.
I saw the AP story detailing your defense of SSG Bales linked on the Drudge Report. God bless you and all those who’ve served honorably during this hellish decade. 9/11 changed me, too and as a result I married a military officer. He’s been assigned overseas for the past 3.5 years, but largely not in harm’s way. I can only imagine what the Bales family and yours have been through. Right now this overall story as reported is not making sense to me.
>>out of character,
Consider the strange tale of former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=william+rehnquist+CIA+Hospitalization
We all have one foot in the rabbit hole.
Prayers up for SSG Bales and his military family - and thank you ALL for your service.
Prayers are on the way. Thanks for your service and your insight.
Interesting quote from above article.
ales also denied reports that he was drunk at the time of the attacks, according to Browne.
"He said he had a couple sips of something but he didn't have a full drink," the lawyer said,"