The other day, at dawn, 1300 men were outside at Fort Bragg, prepping
for a large field excercise. Out of the woods came gunfire.
A sniper seeking to kill them.
Men begin falling, shouts for help, assistance. 1 man bleeds to death
in front of his fellows. Another lays paralyzed, other wounded crawl for cover.
A crazed Muslim?
No
Sgt William Kreutzer of Washington DC, attacked his own men.
By the time Military Police arrived on the scene, Kreutzer was insisting that he had given plenty of warnings that he was going to snap one day and start killing, but that they had ignored him, and said that it was "God's way".
After arriving at the Criminal Investigation Division office, Kreutzer waived his rights and again asked to speak with Darren Fong, who had since been reassigned. A psychiatrist, a Dr. Diamond, was provided instead, since Kreutzer had invoked his right to silence and an attorney and refused to speak to the military police. Diamond interviewed Kreutzer and reported that he seemed delusional and severely distraught.
The following day, Lt. Cmdr Messer (also a doctor of psychiatry) performed a suicide assessment, and declared that there were "definite mental health issues" involved. The following week, Kreutzer asked for a private civilian psychiatrist, for which he would pay, to speak with. Dr. Rollins attended Kreutzer until he was unable to continue paying the psychiatric bills.
On December 8, a board of doctors from the military hospital deemed Kreutzer mentally fit to stand trial.
At trial, Kreutzer claimed, "I wanted to send a message to the chain-of-command that had forgotten the welfare of the common soldie
Major Hassan is not the only soldier to snap and rampage against his fellows.
http://edition.cnn.com/...
I"m willing to bet not one Talking head this week discussed
"Crazy Kreuter" either.
Now granted Kreuter was in 95, the same year mcveigh blew up OKC,
but i thought it was worth mentioning.