{"id":20374,"date":"2010-09-07T08:42:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20374"},"modified":"2010-09-07T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:42:25","slug":"ex-soldier-takes-hostages-at-fort-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20374","title":{"rendered":"Ex-soldier takes hostages at Fort Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, an unnamed former soldier walked into the hospital at Fort Stewart armed with two handguns and two semi-automatic rifles and took hostages according to the Savannah Morning News<\/a>; <\/p>\n

An Army psychiatric nurse spotted the gunman and approached him to talk, Phillips said. That nurse was then taken hostage along with a behavioral health technician who refused to allow the gunman through a locked door to the patient area.<\/p>\n

Still, the nurse \u2014 an Army major \u2014 was able to start calming the man.
\n“Working together, they maintained the situation, kept the gunman out of the territory where he could harm someone else and bought time for someone else to get there,” Phillips said.<\/p>\n

Military police soon arrived and surrounded the hospital. Army investigators trained in hostage negotiations worked their way to the floor.<\/p>\n

In less than two hours, they persuaded him to put down his weapons and surrender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to news reports, the former soldier was upset at the quality of care he was receiving at the Army hospital.<\/p>\n

“He broke the law, obviously, and he threatened people” and would have to face the consequences, [fort spokesman Kevin] Larson said. “But we are going to get him the help for behavioral health.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In no way do I condone this soldier’s methods, however it seems to me that Army mental health professionals should have seen this coming and done something before it reached this point. I agree that the soldier needs to be punished, but I don’t think jail time will help anyone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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