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I did want to know, thanks for the information.

I had two forward observers who worked for me. They were not infantry as you assert, but they certainly spent every day with an infantry rifle company and, in my company, they served as the de facto second in command of the company as they served as a part of the company command group. Neither of them have murdered any law enforcement officers. Nor have I for that matter, nor any other member of my rifle company or my long range rifle platoon when I was serving in that position. When their combat tours were complete, they went back to the United States and have lived normal lives.

If this guy was a nutter in Vietnam, it would have become obvious because of his unique position of responsibility and he would not have completed his tour. Whatever his problems, they arose after his service in combat and most likely from a mental disorder than had little to do with his combat service. Certainly, a very few of these nut cases were set on their course into na na land by some traumatic experience of combat, there were plenty of those to go around. But, I for one, don’t buy into this liberal nonsense that the awful experience of combat turned a perfectly normal human being into a crazed psychopathic killer. Psychopathic killers to end up in combat and afterwards they sometimes to what they are wont to do. Most FO’s don’t, although they sometimes get a round in a place it isn’t meant to be.

Spare me the bullshit.