Spree-shooter in Afghanistan is from a US base with "severe leadership problem""
from CNN-
For the second time in five months, a U.S. soldier from a Washington (state) military base is accused of committing atrocities against civilians in Afghanistan.
A handful of soldiers from the base have been involved in violent incidents in the past few years, including four soldiers convicted of killing Afghan civilians in 2010 as part of a "kill squad." Also in 2010, three other soldiers "suffered dangerous public mental breakdowns" after returning from Afghanistan, with two of them shot to death by police, according to the Stars and Stripes military newspaper. This year, a former soldier from the base is believed to have shot a Washington park ranger to death on New Year's Day. Twelve soldiers on the base committed suicide in 2010, according to the base's Northwest Guardian newspaper.
"This was not just a rogue soldier," said Jorge Gonzalez, executive director of G.I. Voice, a veteran-run nonprofit organization that operates a soldiers' resource center near the base called Coffee Strong. The base is "a rogue base, with a severe leadership problem," he said.
"If Fort Lewis was a college campus, it would have been closed down years ago," Gonzalez said. In the wake of Sunday's shootings, he called for a congressional investigation and hearings "into the multiple crises" at the base.
What. The. F*ck.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/12/us/afghanistan-shootings-base/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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