SSG Bales doesn’t need a court martial, he needs medical and psycholgical help.
I blame the Pentagon and EVERYONE from Panetta up to zero for this man being returned to combat after a brain injury during a prior deployment.
You don’t need a PHD from Oxford to figure that out, you just have to be slightly more intelligent than broccoli!!
I agree he needs help, however diagnosing concussion and brain damage is the opposite of easy. Even if he has an obvious pathology, alcohol changes everything. That is, it affects most of the numerous brain chemicals into what amounts to a “52 card pick-up”.
Nothing is quite so unnerving as real mental illness. Often it seems like they are logical and rational, but they are absolutely not.
Out of a thousand cases like his, maybe a few dozen develop a psychiatric problem unique to that injury. In the short term. Many more, in their later years will develop Parkinson’s disease, or become “punchy” like old boxers.
And doctors often can’t tell who will and who will not until they do.