[smoothsailing]

In the days before the shooting, Lawrence had been seen by medical personnel at Kandahar and given drugs for depression and sleeplessness

He had been in Afghanistan, his first deployment, for four months when the prisoner was killed. Before his guard duty assignment, he was part of a security detail for the battalion commander, which meant repeated missions "outside the wire" and exposure to the threat of snipers and roadside bombs.

Source

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This is interesting, and goes with your "other soldiers" reference, Fred.

any mention of a battalion commander or security detail seems to have been scrubbed from the LA Times website's Tony Perry articles.

So, was Lawrence not fit to remain on the security detail, but fit to guard a high profile prisoner?

[bigheadfred]

I haven’t had a chance to ask my other source yet. Haven’t seen them in person. There are things we don’t discuss using electronic media. If I get anything new I will let you know.

[jazusamo]

So, was Lawrence not fit to remain on the security detail, but fit to guard a high profile prisoner?

Interesting thought...Very possibly one of the things the brass wanted kept under the radar.