Micah Xavier Johnson sent home from Afghanistan by Army

[struggle4progress]

Will Weissert, Reese Dunklin and Mitch Weiss
4 Hours Ago

... In May 2014, six months into his Afghanistan tour, he was accused of sexual harassment by a female soldier. The Army sent him stateside, recommending an "other than honorable discharge," said Bradford Glendening, the military lawyer who represented him.

That recommendation was "highly unusual," Bradford said, since counseling is usually ordered before more drastic steps are taken ...

According to a court filing Glendening read over the phone Friday, the victim said she wanted Johnson to "receive mental help," while also seeking a protective order to keep him away from her and her family, wherever they went. Johnson was ordered to avoid all contact with her.

Glendening said Johnson was set to be removed from the Army in September 2014 because of the incident, but instead got an honorable discharge months later - for reasons he can't understand ...

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/09/dallas-sniper-micah-xavier-johnson-was-a-loner-sent-home-from-afghanistan-by-army.html

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

1. But . . . but . . .

. . . I thought it was PTSD he was suffering from, due to his (abbreviated) Afghanistan deployment?!?

Maybe this guy was just an angry, self-absorbed creep, who blamed others of his own inadequacies, and that eventually escalated into homicidal violence?

I mean, if we're going to be throwing out hypotheses (based on a tissue-thin amount of evidence), let's put that one on the table.

[GeorgeGist]

7. Maybe he was conditioned by the Army to solve problems ...

with a gun.

[1939]

9. While he went through basic training and qualified with the rifle

His advanced training and the job he did was to be a carpenter and mason in a rear echelon engineer unit.

Foul ball not someone "perverted" by military service.

[malaise]

2. One more mentally ill lone wolf

living with his mother and storing up hatred, weapons, bomb making stuff and a military tactics journal.

Fugg him too.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

3. Yup . . .

. . . just another sad variant on Dylann Roof.

[oberliner]

5. Not even remotely

This is ridiculous.

[ck4829]

10. Different name, different face

Same tendency that a fanatic devotion to a socially constructed group makes them think that they are gods above their fellow man.

[Angel Martin]

14. Yup ! Too many on this site

are in denial that there can be a black mirror of Dylan Roof and white hate groups.

But they think the same and they act the same (hatred and murder)

[oberliner]

4. Wrong on both counts

Not mentally ill, and not a lone wolf.

[ck4829]

8. Non-white violent people being mentally ill? Whoa dude, that's some crazy talk right there.

from me, not so much from others.

[malaise]

11. ROFL

because you're correct

[marybourg]

6. This may not be completely accurate

because it was in the very early report, but they said he had been the army for 6 years and his rank was Spec. 3, Private 1st class. After 6 years, he should have been at least a Spec.5, equiv. to Sergeant. Something was very wrong while he was still in service.

[hedda_foil]

13. He was in the reserves, not the regular army, and the source was his own military lawyer.

It sure sounds like his lawyer believed he was at least a troublemaker and likely one with a few loose screws.

[bluedigger]

12. I can guess why his discharge was upgraded.

Because it looked bad on his command's performance reviews. It's a systemic problem in military command, that poor subordinate performance has a negative affect that travels upwards; Instead of rewarding company commanders for aggressively rooting out substandard soldiers from their units, excessive disciplinary problems are viewed as a "failure of command". It's kind of a perverse problem.