Just heard the gunmen were soldiers on CNN from a Ft. Hood spokesman.
Just heard the gunmen were soldiers on CNN from a Ft. Hood spokesman.
One of the suspected gunmen (if there was more than one - two other soldiers are in custody as "suspects") is identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan.
Last edited by SWJED; 11-05-2009 at 10:25 PM.
@#$%*Originally Posted by Entropy
"The status quo is not sustainable. All of DoD needs to be placed in a large bag and thoroughly shaken. Bureaucracy and micromanagement kill."
-- Ken White
"With a plan this complex, nothing can go wrong." -- Schmedlap
"We are unlikely to usefully replicate the insights those unencumbered by a military staff college education might actually have." -- William F. Owen
CNN is now saying that the shooter was Maj. Maliq Nadal Hassan. Spelling is just a guess.
At least 12 dead and 31 wounded
One of my former medics emailed me and asked,
I replied,"How can you shoot your fellow brothers.......... I am lost for words sir."
That's about all we can do at this point until it's all sorted out."I don't know brother. As I studied the female suicide bombers from Diyala, the emotions of hate, anger, and revenge overtook rational thought, and they just wanted to kill themselves and take as many with them as they could. All we can do right now is take a knee and pray."
NBC evening news just reported he was not only a an officer but he was a Doctor
He was a psychiatrist.
From one of my FSOs,
He is an army psychiatrist. my wife worked for him on the mental health floor at darnell medical center on post.
Last edited by MikeF; 11-05-2009 at 11:58 PM.
NBC also said he specialized in Combat Stress Disorders?
Along with cops and soldiers, the burn out rates for pscyhs dealing with trauma is an astronomical rate. I'll just say this for now until we have time to let it all pass and grieve this tragedy. He probably hit a break point after listening to too many stories. LTG Bob Cone is right. This is an "isolated incident." I won't be suprised if they discover that doc did what he did at the SRC to "save" others from the anguish that he listened to so many others go through.
Either that or ideological reasons that had nothing to do with his job.
I'll be quiet now. That's my .02
Last edited by MikeF; 11-06-2009 at 12:28 AM.
This is shocking on so many levels. First of all just the horror of losing so many good men on a base in their home country. Then the shooter being an officer (OK, not from the fighting arms, but still wearing a uniform). a doctor for god's sake!
And I am sure just the names Fort Hood and Texas have some resonances of their own for a lot of people..
It looks right now like there was just one shooter, and he had some issue with being posted to iraq. I am sure that explains nothing, but that would point to "lone nut goes berserk". On the other hand, if it turns out to have any connection to spontaneous Jihad syndrome or even worse, if it was a planned act by more than one person then we will surely be talking about many other things.
Just shocking.
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