Personality Disorder ???

[lizbud]

I think they deliberately use the words "personality disorder" to cover any number of things and not get specific.

What he did was beyond sick...evil evil stuff...

Yes and it gives all American troops a black eye. What I wondered was
if potential recruits are tested in any way (except physicals) when they
come to enlist? Seems strange when he's discharged so close in time to
this story breaking.

[Lady's Human]

There is a minimal psych eval done while in MEPS, but most of the time we have the joy of finding out about these problems when the troops get to the units.


I've seen some ugly things come into units, multiple personalities, minimal intelligence, etc, but they do well enough to sneak through.

[RICHARD]

I have to chime in.

Take a best friend., co worker or relative.

Now think about them in splattered on a wall, have them die next to you,
or have them bleed to death in your arms.

I think it is a grave mistake to judge a 'personality disorder' without having known or seen what triggered a person to act that way.


Yes, there are people who slip thru the cracks.....But there are things seen in war time that can move a person to the edge of sanity.

Yep, that is a crime what that soldier did....

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Whitmire is a journalist that probably has never had his best friend shot or killed in he presence...

He is just parroting the 'facts' as he gets them.

I don't really give any story written by some wuss, at a desk in a news room,
any credence....it's all second hand wordage.

In a court of law hearsay don't mean squat.
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we can give any Peterson, Simpson, Ramsay character a break, but when it come to some jerk, fighting a war, we can't even see the forest.

Yep, he may have confessed but where are his rights.

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If we happen to capture a bomber that kills 30 people in a market place in Iraq are we willing to give him a break?


The question is why he did it.