Thread: Fort Hood Shooting

This seems to be a strange development ... Major Nidal Hasan seemed worried about the results of an HIV blood test taken a week before the Fort Hood shooting rampage, according to federal investigators piecing together background details on Hasan's life. Taken a week before the shooting? Has Combivir in his apartment? How long does it take to get HIV tests back? The fact that this test happened at all, followed by its proximity to the...

That's correct Vizco. Hell, they'll even make you a full Colonel, right off the bat, if your medical credencials are top notch and you're in the right specialty (like a brain surgeon).

Gandol teh Pirate wrote: Come now Klark. You need to open yourself up to the fear mongering of great men such as Joseph Lieberman who see shady terrorists around every corner and in every shadow! If you don't, you're buying into the lib'rul islamofascist agenda!!!1 Or, you could wait until the investigation is completed and see what the findings are. peace, Aielman

Aielman KajiraLiege wrote: Gandol teh Pirate wrote: Come now Klark. You need to open yourself up to the fear mongering of great men such as Joseph Lieberman who see shady terrorists around every corner and in every shadow! If you don't, you're buying into the lib'rul islamofascist agenda!!!1 Or, you could wait until the investigation is completed and see what the findings are. peace, Aielman In that regard, I suppose Lieberman...

Whoops I was off on that. I was thinking captain, but yes Major is pretty much as far as most people get I haven't heard everythign regarding his record. I'm looking to see where it mentions evals. Found this though: Military records show Hasan received his appointment to the Army as a first lieutenant in June 1997 after graduating from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, with a degree in biochemistry. Six years later, he...

He was donating money so that they could purchase burkas.

He's paralyzed. I now wish life in prison.

13 counts of murder. In Texas. I smell an execution scheduled for like next week . . . .speedy trial notwithstanding. Defense will pull the mental health card but I don't think it will hold up. He was not insane- merely just fed up.

Yes, but medical services officers are treated differently, by all accounts. They do not command troops; their "officer-ness" is by courtesy, in effect.

HIV testing was an annual test while I was in the Navy if I remember correctly. Along with PPD. They would usually get you into the clinic on the guise of needing one vaccine or shot until they flipped through your medical record and decided you needed others.