{"id":20312,"date":"2010-08-30T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20312"},"modified":"2010-08-30T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:17:08","slug":"hunger-trance-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20312","title":{"rendered":"“Hunger trance” kills"},"content":{"rendered":"

i don’t know how I’ve missed this story. Back in late June, Staff Sergeant Rashad Valmont shot multiple times and killed his supervisor 47-year-old Pedro Mercado at their Army Reserve Center at Fort Gilliam, Georgia, south of Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of Valmont in happier times;<\/p>\n

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It seems that portly Valmont was denied permission to attend a military school because he couldn’t meet the weight standards;<\/p>\n

Sgt. Rashad Valmont’s attorney William Cassara said Monday his client was dehydrated and exhausted from sauna treatments, body wraps and other efforts to meet “arbitrary” weight guidelines to go to an advanced training course.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if by “arbitrary weight guidelines” Mr. Cassara means the same standards that have been around since the carter Administration – and the same “arbitrary weight guidelines” that the whole Army is subject to when we attend military schools, he might be right – well, except for the fact they’ve been around forever and everyone is required to comply.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I see where Valmont tried body wraps, fasting and saunas, but nothing about actual exercise to lose weight. He sounds like a lazy slug. I’m just saying. Only a slug would think he could loose weight by sitting around in a sauna. I’ve known plenty of them. Some I met while sitting around in a sauna trying to lose weight.<\/p>\n

Cassara said Valmont was in “some sort of delirium” when he shot and killed 47-year-old Master Sgt. Pedro Mercado in June at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in nearby Fort Gillem.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Valmont, who was charged with premeditated murder, went into a downward spiral after he was denied his leave for repeatedly showing up to work late.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not clear to me who was on leave prior to MSG Mercado’s murder, because the Associated Press author<\/a> of the article isn’t clear on that point. I guess they should be giving remedial writing class at AP. It’s hard to understand the whole “hunger delirium” excuse, though. By the looks of him, Valmont had another six weeks of “stored energy” under his skin. And if he was on vacation, I doubt that his adherence to a strict regimen of saunas and body wraps were uninterrupted by trips to Dairy Queen. <\/p>\n

Thanks to Just a Grunt<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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