re: Mandeville parking lot knock out video - Follow Up article and PTSD claim

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Respect. I have no doubt you know what you are talking about. However, we are giving this guy a pass. Any KLE that you participated in with an individual acting like that during your pre-mission analysis you would have given a hard pass. Period.

Sometimes what you see is what is what is real. He is not a hardened combat vet. It appears he was an S-3 Air type on his last deployment (which was not demanding in the context of the times). He is taking advantage of a system that is overburdened by claiming he has PTSD.

Hint, I am a retired colonel (this past summer) who worked in the medical field.

ETA: Who joined the Army and went through Fort Benning OSUT (11B) when you were a very, very young man.

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I personally would not make a major decision (two time brigade command, two time battalion command) without the counter-balance of my senior NCO (generally a CSM). Your points are valid. But in this instance, CPT Suarez has (unfortunately) had a pattern of this type of behavior for quite some time. The system (I have every confidence) will work. But he is in a lot of trouble. And I personally (not professionally) take offense to his claim of PTSD. He has anger issues, not (in my opinion) post-combat stressors.

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Let’s say he was having a PTSD panic attack. He still hurt someone. All the PTSD means is that he needs help, not that he shouldn’t be prosecuted.

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Exactly, for me, it changes nothing. He still did what he did, and he should still pay the price for it.

It's like the "not guilty due to reason of insanity" defense. Ok that's fine, but you're still a danger to the community so you still not to be locked up and kept away from the general public.

Thank you

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frick that scumbag and his excuses.

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I'd like to see Agent Sebastian bust him on Cart Narcs with an illegal curbing.

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many in today’s society act as judge and executioner without going through a reasoned fact finding process.

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Do you need more than the video to make a personal assessment/judgment of whether his actions were appropriate and/or justified?

You have to address the root cause and the symptoms of an issue. Neglecting the root cause leads to the same problem over and over (like thinking merely locking up criminals will change things/reduce crime) and neglecting symptoms of an issue exasperates the issue and potentially turns the symptom into it's own problem (like refusing to prosecute criminals).

You can be sympathetic for Suarez based on your own experience while calling his actions for what they were.
Refusing to do the latter based on some unknown hope of other facts theory doesn't do him or anyone any good. The whole tone of the article suggests that he thinks he has no accountability in this--which should be telling. That said, the real disservice is reading a nola.com article.

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what I obviously failed to express properly was my belief that many in today’s society act as judge and executioner without going through a reasoned fact finding process.

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You’re right. We should all wait and see if another video from a different angle comes out showing that CrushBaw was actually parked legally, the old ladies deserved a good crushing and were indeed massive bitches and CrushBaws safety threatened when a geriatric grandfather questioned his manhood.

I can’t fathom anyone not accepting it if the guy has a legit mental health problem and is seeking proper treatment and resolution of it.

That said, the FB comments he made years back still paint him as a creepy stalker weirdo, pre-deployment/PTSD.

Is this thread just 8 pages of one guy with good grammar and a big vocabulary white knighting for Richie?

My parents are both veterans. Several of my friends are veterans. PTSD is a real disease, but 99% of those afflicted it with it go around threatening and knocking out elderly men.

As OWL said, being a veteran doesn't give you a pass to be a dickhead.

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edit - your drill seargent looks like Princes dad in Purple Rain or sampson simpson (take your pick)

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For purposes of anonymity, that junior drill sergeant (a Staff Sergeant) beat the living s**t out of a drunk trainee after the adventurous soul ran his mouth to him and then (gasp) knocked his drill sergeant hat off of a bunk it was laying on.

His counterpart to the left of the formation, a Sergeant First Class who was the senior drill sergeant, came in when called about this incident and had trainees internally handle the rest. He personally never laid a hand on the drunk trainee. Not going to say it was right, but it was the Army in the (recent) post Vietnam era. Very no nonsense.

Not going to lie, it kept me on my best behavior the entire time I was there (just over three months).