This is a disgusting, tragic and horrific story.
Three soldiers have been relieved of duty pending an investigation into the strange death last month of Sgt. Gerald Cassidy who was found alone in his room, slumped in a chair. The autopsy revealed he’d been dead for hours before his body was discovered, and may have been unconscious for days before that.
Cassidy arrived Ft. Knox suffering blinding headaches, memory and hearing loss, and PTS.
May God be with his family and friends over the holidays, as the investigation drags on.
A battalion commander, company commander and platoon sergeant have lost privileges and been removed from the unit. What is disconcerting is that according the Army’s own rules, each injured service member in such a unit is assigned a doctor, a nurse care manager and a squad leader to manage treatment. What happened here?
Needless to say, as in the case of assigning women to combat collocated forward company units (which are supposed to be all-male), the Army doesn’t seem to be paying any attention to the ‘rules’.
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Cao, if you don’t mind, I’d like to put a link with your article on mine. This one is close to home (Cassidy was from a town about 40 minutes from me). This is really disconcerting, especially with the VA trying to deny benefits to so many wounded warriors for PST and Tramatic Brain disorders. They also pulled the trick of trying to get bonus money back from personnel wounded before “finishing their tour and time of enlistment”! That burnt my biscuit!
Go ahead, hon. You have permission to swipe with attribution whenever you like. It’s the splogs that don’t – they’re doing it for financial gain…and they do it by RIPPING IT OFF.
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