Misdiagnosed Green Beret Demoted, Nearly Court-Martialed Before Rare Illness Revealed By Lisa Falkenberg Associated Press Writer KARNACK, Texas (AP) - By the time he shipped out for the war in Iraq in January, Special Forces Sgt. James Alford was a wreck of a soldier. For five months, he had been doing odd things. He disappeared from Fort Campbell, Ky., for several days last year. He lost equipment and lied to superiors. In December, he was demoted from staff sergeant to sergeant. In the Kuwaiti desert, he came apart. The hotshot Green Beret who a year earlier ran circles around his...