Failed military recruits prove deadly outliers

[rangerrebew]

Failed military recruits prove deadly outliers
By Nikki Wentling
 Jun 21, 05:00 AM
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After Mauricio Garcia killed eight people at a Texas mall last May, reports focused on two elements from his past: that he was a failed soldier and that he held extremist views.

Garcia had enlisted in the U.S. Army following high school but was dismissed from basic training three months later. After the shooting spree in Allen, attention turned to social media posts where he shared hateful views toward Jews, women and racial minorities.

Garcia’s behavior follows a pattern. He is one of 32 people dismissed by the U.S. military within weeks or months of enlistment, all later charged with extremist-driven plots and crimes, from mail bombings to bank robberies to mass shootings. That figure comes from Mike Jensen, a researcher who maintains a database of all extremist crimes in the U.S. for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, known as START.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/flashpoints/extremism-disinformation/2023/06/21/failed-military-recruits-prove-deadly-outliers/

[rangerrebew]

Perhaps the REAL problem is taking people who shouldn't be in the military to begin with just to fill recruiting quotas.

[Smokin Joe]

WHile I can possibly see some connection between failure to complete basic training and the sort of anti-social and possibly extremist views that may contribute to mass casualty events based on race, the article goes on to state that folks who failed are a threat to the GLBTQetc set. Yet I know of no mass casualty events directed at that group which were not perpetrated by members of that group.

Hate can be general (extremely antisocial) or specific toward a group of people, but it seems the folks who did not complete basic who are so inclined to commit violent acts, including mass casualty acts, had other problems when they got to Basic, and it may be that they were screened out by that, not created by it. (Correlation is not causation).