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Sad as this situation is, they can't blame the military. I've seen similar things happen in the civilian world. Once I was asked to come in and replace a computer operator who had began acting strangely too--she wouldn't come in, she'd forget to do important tasks, or did them wrong. She would be rude at times, apparently sullen at others. So they fired her. Then they learned--too late--that she had a brain tumor. She died about a month after I assumed her job.

The thing is, sometimes people change their behavior because they're on drugs (which is what people thought had happened to her) or because their private lives are falling apart, or just because they're tired of their job. They were fighting a war, and perhaps they didn't have time to thoroughly examine everyone who began acting strangely. I wish for this guy's sake, they had, but I don't fault the military.

It's tragic, though. Prayers for him and his family.

"Sad as this situation is, they can't blame the military."

Actually he cannot sue the military, but he SURE AS HELL can BLAME them. I went through the military medical system for three years with undiagnosed disease that almost killed me and saw more than 20 physicians - all whose attitude was "you must not want to go to school today". Until I started bleeding internally that is.

This man was killed by bad medicine, in my judgement - I have been in healthcare for 25 years and watched the military's system in action first hand. Except for the key centers, you need to trust another doctor if they can't figure things out.

I have a sleep disorder that has affected me in ways that can only be described as violent verbal outbursts that happen spontaneiously at co-workers! (But only those who deserved it)

Had a partial uvulectomy and I am a different person. People actually like me in person now. All kidding aside, I was a nightmare, when I see normal situations today that I knew would have set me off in a rage, I wonder how long I had sleep deprivation as an issue.