Mystery Seizures Haunt Marine Units a Decade after Deployment
September 29, 2020|Amanda Miller
Jack Somers struggled to get his bearings.
He didn’t recognize the place. He didn’t recognize the people in the crowd.
It was 2010, and he served as a Marine Corps captain based out of Camp Pendleton, California. He’d commanded an antipiracy platoon off the Horn of Africa and walked the bomb-riddled perimeter of an outpost in a Taliban-dominated part of Afghanistan.
But at the finish line of a turkey trot back in his hometown of Trout Valley, Illinois, he felt lost.
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