Lopez had PTSD and went postal on his own buds. Today 90% of the military never have to do combat grunt services. Many are now calling for mandatory 4 year, honorable discharge, in the combat grunt service for 1st time enlistees and commissions. The requirements would be mandatory before acceptance to ROTC, Windows/Mac IT, West Point, Medical School, aircraft carriers, chopper piloting, truck repair, etc.
Wrong. Lopez was not in combat, was diagnosed with depression and receiving counseling and meds, with no indication of violent tendencies. Sadly, adult schizophrenia frequently manifests at his age, usually without violent behavior, but with the occasional schizophrenic whose "voices" tell him or her to do some violent act.
Public Policy is my Major wrote:
Lopez had PTSD and went postal on his own buds. Today 90% of the military never have to do combat grunt services. Many are now calling for mandatory 4 year, honorable discharge, in the combat grunt service for 1st time enlistees and commissions. The requirements would be mandatory before acceptance to ROTC, Windows/Mac IT, West Point, Medical School, aircraft carriers, chopper piloting, truck repair, etc.
English composition is a course you must take before you go off and set public policies.
The Roman Empire paid cargo carriers and servants only minimum wage and didn't have ranks and medals unless you killed a bunch of Barbarians.
The Pentagon should dump airplane pilot, boat sailing, and stevedore jobs for drones and minimum wage iternerants through DoD contractors.
The families are going to ask for $250,000 combat survivor benefit since they was killed in domestic combat on the Ft Hoot base. What a crock.
Get a clue or a new major wrote:
Wrong. Lopez was not in combat, was diagnosed with depression and receiving counseling and meds, with no indication of violent tendencies. Sadly, adult schizophrenia frequently manifests at his age, usually without violent behavior, but with the occasional schizophrenic whose "voices" tell him or her to do some violent act.
Ivan Lopez was a CIA SOCOM SF operative in Iran, China, and Crimea. His SRB does not list his bravery and ummatched accomplishments as a US sailor, airman, and soldier.
So sayin on the News wrote:
The families are going to ask for $250,000 combat survivor benefit since they was killed in domestic combat on the Ft Hoot base. What a crock.
It will be interesting to see if Obama admin calls this "work place violence"--actually in this case more appropriate than when Hassan shot up the place.
Did Spc Lopez do anything the US Army hasn't done a million times to innocent civilians?