[Tijeras_Slim]

This guy is practically sprouting red-flags out his ears. Shame he made it through the recruiting process.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Someone in the Army ought to have their head examined. Any recruit who changes his name from Cool to Akbar needs to be watched very carefully.

[ought-six]

"This guy is practically sprouting red-flags out his ears. Shame he made it through the recruiting process."

You can thank Political Correctness and its demand for "diversity." That philosophy has sown the seeds for more strife and tragedy than almost anything else in America's history. Cataloguing Americans into specific interest groups, with special favors and preferences (which is what PC and the "diversity" movement are all about), makes a mockey of the American credo "E Pluribus Unum (From Many, One)." Rather, it has tortured that credo to one stating the exact opposite: "E Unum Pluribus (From One, Many)." America's greatness has been its unity as ONE people, made up of many individuals of wide and varied heritage whose common bond was their desire to BE an American. Political Correctness and its "diversity" abomination insists on just the opposite.

[pepsionice]

There are hints about this guy...but the army has no choice these days...they have to accept what they can get. I suspect that this guy had a long-standing mental problem and the army should have figured that out after basic training. I also have some thoughts that he uses some type of drugs...my guess would be Ectesy. I wonder if they had him do a urine test after this episode. I recall a episode here in Germany about two years ago where some guy went nuts while visiting a German couples apartment and eventually killed one person and wounded two others. There was no logic or apparent guess that he was dangerous either. He never could explain why he did it and the Germans who survived really offered very little about what the four were doing that night. This US Army guy in Germany got like 20 years in prison for his act.

I doubt that we will ever know the entire story....this dude will be failing his mental exam and spend the rest of his life in a institute probably.