http://cdn.csgazette.biz/soldiers/day3.htmlLocked Away Army struggles with wounded soldiers
Sgt. Paul Sasse arrived at Fort Carson in February in a uniform glistening with decorations from three combat tours: five medals for heroism, four for excellence, three for good conduct and one for nearly getting killed in Iraq. The 32-year-old Special Forces soldier also wore shackles. He was facing court-martial for assaulting his wife and two military police officers. Sasse had been sitting in solitary confinement at the El Paso County jail for months without military charge and had been brought to the Colorado Springs Army post to be arraigned. "I just need someone to help me," he said, reaching with bound hands to show a Gazette reporter his medical files.
Sasse was hit by a roadside bomb in 2007 in Iraq and diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury. He kept soldiering through another tour even though he struggled with shattered memory and concentration, depression, nightmares and rage.
In 2012, the Army diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress disorder. Doctors gave him a mix of contraindicated drugs that made him manic. A few weeks later, he slammed his wife's head against their Jeep until she was covered in blood then turned on the military police who tried to stop him. He had been scheduled to go into a special unit for wounded soldiers. Instead, the Army put him in jail.
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It just PO's me to no end to see the way the Army treats soldiers in need.
Caveat: I was assigned to this unit, and retired from it in '99. The guy in the article is not a tabber (SF), but he was assigned as a support troop. He was one of the team.
I have seen the crap that the chain-of-command in 10th Group will do to a troop to protect their precious efficiency reports. Ft Carson is really bad when it comes to screwing the troops.
