Misdiagnosed Green Beret demoted

[IndianaGreen]

Staff Sgt. James Alford, a U.S. Army Green Beret, poses in this family photo in Karnack, Texas.

Misdiagnosed Green Beret demoted

Soldier nearly court-martialed before rare brain illness revealed

KARNACK, Texas, Nov. 24 — By the time he shipped out for the war in Iraq in January, Special Forces Sgt. James Alford was a wreck of a soldier. For five months, he had been doing odd things. He disappeared from Fort Campbell, Ky., for several days last year. He lost equipment and lied to superiors. In December, he was demoted from staff sergeant to sergeant.

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A month and several hospitals later, Alford’s family learned he was dying of a disease eating away his brain. He had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an extremely rare and fatal degenerative brain disorder akin to mad cow disease that causes rapid, progressive dementia.

Now, as the 25-year-old soldier wastes away in his boyhood home, his parents and his wife are struggling to understand how the military could have misdiagnosed Alford’s erratic, forgetful behavior as nothing more than the symptoms of a sloppy, incompetent soldier.

“He had to hold his hands to keep them from shaking, but they saw nothing wrong with my child,” his mother Gail Alford, a nine-year Army veteran, said recently from her home in a rural community near Marshall, Texas.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/994733.asp?0cl=cR

[Nlighten1]

1. They don't give a fuck that is why...

Chew them up and spit them out.

[Karenina]

2. BINGO!

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[whathappened]

3. bush and base ball

it is the old 3 strikes and you are out with this boy wonder jr. , we are nothing more then a batter coming up to bat , if ya strike out , go sit down and we will put another in your place , we don't have time to check ya out right now , bush is a dumb ass and this poor young man needs to sue the shit out of the defence dept for being stupid