Shootings ‘outrageous and unacceptable’ just as the rest of the story is

The unnamed soldier has been called every other name in the book so far and while what he did is deplorable, we all need to acknowledge something right here, right now. The “outrageous and unacceptable” thing in all of this is the way the impact of repeated deployments has been ignored.

Obama: Shootings ‘outrageous and unacceptable’
By Anne Gearan - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Mar 13, 2012

WASHINGTON — The alleged massacre of Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier is “outrageous and unacceptable,” President Obama said Tuesday, and he promised a thorough and unstinting Pentagon investigation.

“The United States takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens, and our children, who were murdered. We’re heartbroken over the loss of innocent life,” Obama said. He sounded stern and emotional in brief remarks on the weekend killings made before an unrelated White House event.

As reports trickle in, it has been said the Sgt. is a sniper, has PTSD and TBI, has problems in his marriage, may have been drinking, but above all of that, one his fourth combat tour of duty.

The Army released a report that repeated deployments increased the risk of PTSD by 50% but they kept doing it, topped off with redeploying soldiers with PTSD and TBI. They are redeployed on medications to numb them while actual therapy to heal them is not provided.

He is facing the death penalty but it seems as if he's been facing that for a long time already well before he pulled the trigger that horrible night.