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MADem

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1. I read that the guy did a rather mild four month tour in Iraq in 2011 and saw no combat

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Fri Apr 4, 2014, 06:03 AM

Apr 2014

or incidents. He was a truck driver. He claimed a TBI but that wasn't substantiated. He'd done eight years in the Puerto Rican Guard. He was seeing a psychiatrist and on prescription drugs.

A bunch of other speculation can be found in this rather salacious tabloid article and the comments following it:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fort-hood-gunman-devastated-mother-death-article-1.1744315

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Mental health experts dispute linking PTSD to violence after Fort Hood shooting [View all] unhappycamper Apr 2014 OP

I read that the guy did a rather mild four month tour in Iraq in 2011 and saw no combat MADem Apr 2014 #1

Stereotyping is what popped into my mind when I read about this shooting. unhappycamper Apr 2014 #2

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