{"id":38890,"date":"2013-12-17T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38890"},"modified":"2013-12-17T08:34:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T13:34:01","slug":"eusebio-lopez-caught-the-tbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38890","title":{"rendered":"Eusebio Lopez caught the TBI"},"content":{"rendered":"

We haven’t talked much about this, but you may have read elsewhere that Marine Sergeant Eusebio Lopez killed 19-year-old Lance Corporal Sara Castromata and Corporal Jacob Woolsey last year and now it turns out that he was suffering from a traumatic brain injury from an explosion near the vehicle in which he was riding in Afghanistan. Of course, if you don’t read the whole article from Associated Press<\/a>, you’d think he was just abandoned by the Marine Corps, but buried in the story is;<\/p>\n

Sgt. Eusebio Lopez was receiving treatment in North Carolina after his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in Iraq, but his medical care stopped abruptly when he was transferred to Quantico in 2012, according to a report obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The reason appeared to be two-fold: His new doctors didn’t know about his previous treatment and he didn’t speak up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, the individual is responsible for his own treatment; if you don’t speak up, no one is going to know you’re suffering. Secondly, thousands of troops who are suffering from TBI didn’t murder anyone that day, all of you forensic scientists at Associated Press need to keep looking for a reason.<\/p>\n

Lopez shot Lance Cpl. Sara Castromata, 19, and Cpl. Jacob Wooley, 23, inside a barracks at the Officer Candidates School after a night of drinking. Lopez was upset Castromata had ended a relationship with him and had begun dating Wooley, according to the report obtained Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, that’s plausible. People kill out of jealousy regularly without having set foot in a combat zone. But, then, that doesn’t advance the “crazy combat veteran” meme. And, oh, yeah, the Associated Press also reports that Lopez didn’t turn his gun into his unit like he was supposed to do;<\/p>\n

The report also found that Lopez should not even have been eligible to live in the barracks where the shootings took place and he and other Marines regularly disregarded regulations that required Marines to register personal firearms and store them in the armory when on base. Lopez used his personal handgun in the shootings.<\/p>\n

The Officer Candidates School “was functioning in a climate lacking accountability, cognizance of and adherence to orders and personal responsibility,” according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, let’s recap; Lopez had a TBI that he didn’t report to the gaining unit command and he had a gun that he didn’t turn in to the commander. Yet somehow, it’s the Marine Corps’ fault. Maybe they should administer truth serum and interrogate every service member when they change units. Or they can continue to treat the Marines like adults and accept the fact that sometimes bad behavior happens.<\/p>\n

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

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