{"id":54825,"date":"2014-08-28T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54825"},"modified":"2014-08-27T19:19:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T23:19:06","slug":"fort-lee-shooter-another-crazed-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54825","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lee shooter, another crazed vet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, we reported on the shooting incident which locked down Fort Lee, VA for about a half hour. We also told you that the shooter was a sergeant first class who shot herself. It turns out that, according to Reuters<\/a>, her name was Paula Walker, assigned to the 266TH Quartermaster Battalion. For some reason, it’s a big deal that she spent 15 months in Iraq;<\/p>\n

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Walker, from Yonkers, New York, was a human resources specialist, the base said in a statement. She enlisted in September 2000 and had served at Fort Lee since December 2011.<\/p>\n

She served a 15-month combat tour in Iraq in 2007 and 2008. Her awards included three Army Commendation Medals, the statement said.<\/p>\n

The shooting at the base’s Combined Arms Support Command Headquarters is under investigation and no motive has been given. The incident led to a brief lockdown of the base, the Army’s third-largest training site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She was in the AG Corps, so I’m not sure how much of a “combat tour” it was. She has been at Fort Lee for nearly three years, so I’m really not sure how much a 15-month tour as an AG NCO six years ago has to do with this particular incident, but the Army needs to get in front of this and straighten this out. Quick. The last paragraph of that article;<\/p>\n

The shooting came about four months after a soldier with mental health problems killed three people and wounded 16 at Fort Hood in Texas. The Fort Hood incident was the third shooting rampage at a U.S. military base in six months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d remind Reuters and my readers that two of those “shooting rampages” were committed by civilians, not by military personnel. One of those “rampages” result in the death of one person who was in the military and he saved the life of another servicemember by sacrificing himself. Ivan Lopez<\/a>, the shooter at Fort Hood, had been trying to convince doctors that he had head problems, but he wasn’t diagnosed as having “mental health problems” and he never experienced direct combat<\/a>. So that’s pure speculation.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking that SFC Walker never experienced direct combat either, as a AG troop. They tried to push the PTS in the opening hours of the Hasan murders at Hood, too, despite the fact that Hasan had never deployed. Maybe they should be looking at what makes these POGs (People Other than Grunts) snap instead of trying to scare the country with the old crazy vet meme. It seems to me that folks who actually experience combat are the only ones not going on these “rampages”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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