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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Australia:Soldier should not have been sent

Soldier shouldn't have been sent: report
July 30, 2008 - 9:08PM

A soldier who committed suicide after serving in Afghanistan should never have been posted to a special forces unit which was deployed to a war zone, a new report has revealed.

The report said Signaller Geffrey (Geffrey) Gregg of Perth believed he may have shot a child or teenager during a particularly harrowing patrol and subsequently developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), was discharged from the army and killed himself in September 2006.

He was 25.
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