I know Bob Bales and his wife (I used to work with her).
This is just a tragedy!
Bob served two tours in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan. In his last deployment in Iraq, he was blown up by an IED and suffered severe cranium damage. Still, within a year, the Army sent him to Afghanistan.
Bales says he doesn’t remember what happened that night. He woke up outside the forward operating base perimeter but he had no recollection of how he got there. Two days before, the Koran burning murders and riots occurred, and one of Bales men was killed. Even up to that night, the ops tempo was threw the roof and lot’s of Intel should increased danger for our guys.
I really think he snapped, and is being honest about not remembering. I also think he had some brain damage from the explosion that went untreated.
It’s shameful how much we are asking of our heroes, especially the seasoned combat NCOs. They are almost always deployed in the thick of it.
Dang autocorrect!
That should be:
...through the roof and lot’s of Intel showed increased danger....