cdw
07-16-2004, 06:54 PM
I didn't even hear anything about this. (Fiona, do NOT put a post link, lol)
Supposedly they had this guy up for cowardice charges...
When he went to bed that night, Pogany said, he was soon awakened by the commotion of a returning patrol. That patrol had been ambushed and had returned fire, he said, killing an Iraqi man.
Pogany said he glimpsed the man's mangled remains in an unzipped body bag, and when he later returned to his room he experienced nausea, hallucinations and panic.
"I had what I call a nervous breakdown, and was malfunctioning to the point where I didn't know what was happening," he told CNN in an interview last month.
Pogany said his reaction was so severe that he asked for help from his superiors to deal with the panic attacks. Instead of being given help, he was told to reconsider for the sake of his career.
However, a few days later, he was shipped back to the United States to face the cowardice charge, the first such case since the Vietnam War. Conviction on the charge can result in the death penalty.
The cowardice charge was reduced to dereliction of duty last November. The lesser charge was later dropped, but the case was open until Thursday's decision.
Appears the true cause was a drug they give as an anti-malaria thing.
An advisory note by the Department of Veterans Affairs to its physicians last month told doctors and health care providers that side effects of Lariam include anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations, depression, suicidal thoughts, psychosis and other neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Yep. They owe him an apology. Can you imagine charging someone after two days with cowardice? Very tough bunch of cookies!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/15/army.dropped.charges/index.html
Supposedly they had this guy up for cowardice charges...
When he went to bed that night, Pogany said, he was soon awakened by the commotion of a returning patrol. That patrol had been ambushed and had returned fire, he said, killing an Iraqi man.
Pogany said he glimpsed the man's mangled remains in an unzipped body bag, and when he later returned to his room he experienced nausea, hallucinations and panic.
"I had what I call a nervous breakdown, and was malfunctioning to the point where I didn't know what was happening," he told CNN in an interview last month.
Pogany said his reaction was so severe that he asked for help from his superiors to deal with the panic attacks. Instead of being given help, he was told to reconsider for the sake of his career.
However, a few days later, he was shipped back to the United States to face the cowardice charge, the first such case since the Vietnam War. Conviction on the charge can result in the death penalty.
The cowardice charge was reduced to dereliction of duty last November. The lesser charge was later dropped, but the case was open until Thursday's decision.
Appears the true cause was a drug they give as an anti-malaria thing.
An advisory note by the Department of Veterans Affairs to its physicians last month told doctors and health care providers that side effects of Lariam include anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations, depression, suicidal thoughts, psychosis and other neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Yep. They owe him an apology. Can you imagine charging someone after two days with cowardice? Very tough bunch of cookies!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/15/army.dropped.charges/index.html