Acting out due to PTSD I got in trouble with the law. Do you think they might let me investigate my crime , determine my guilt or innocence and dismiss my case. I suppose I could try?

This isn't even a good cover-up. I can't believe this Colonel couldn't even do that right! How the hell did he make rank?

Skill set of the past eight years of Bush government: Assert, Lie, assert, lie,assert, lie.....Do as you damn well please.If you get caught, asert, lie, assert, lie...take no responsibility....who can stop you?...Karen Hughs, Karl Rove, George Bush...fool me once....you can't fool me again...(but I don't care if I'm called on my BS because, if you're not in the base, it's my way or the highway)

I was a healthcare administrative whistle blower who is feeling the full wrath and retaliation for doing that. I can interpret these findings, and they are decidedly not benign:

Individual and organization refers to the medical facility. The findings state that the pressure isn't originating from the personnel, officers and policies and programs originating within EACH.

Finding #3 is where the nugget lies. It states that systemic pressure is being brought to bear and it manifests in the distortion and intentional wrong diagnoses (which is malpractice, by the way, by definition). The system is anywhere from the US Army AMEDD to the Pentagon to the SECDEF (Gates) to the White House (Obama). That's where the culpability lies.

This is a clear finding of the use of licensed medical providers as agents of abuse and/or torture.

See where US torture policy gets you?

Support the troops, indeed.

it's a real oddity to find that, according to Finding 1, no institutional or organizational pressure was levied on medical authorities to not find PTSD as a diagnosis in patients; and that Finding 2, no one at command level coerced any medical diagnosis; yet Finding 3 "finds evidence of potential systemic pressures inherent in Army physical disability evaluation processes ...," etc., etc.

For God's sake, is there no one, no one, at the ethereal reaches of our military high command that can speak truthfully on behalf of our combat veterans returning from an idiotic war that was waged on the basis of propaganda?

Jesus Christ, what does this say about the "leadership" of the nation when those veterans, scarred by the inevitably horrific nature of warfare, return home only to find that, yes--surprise!--that same "leadership" can't scurry, rat-like, fast enough to find ways to deny benefits/assistance to those very same people that our bumper stickers proclaim we support.

What a Goddamn disgrace.

Our culture demands we respect the Military and it's leaders. They certainly demand respect and get pretty damn snotty if they don't get it.

The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines have been lying to us since Vietnam at least. This "service to our nation" ain't worth 800,000,000,000 dollars a year.

I'm sick of military worship. And sick of American soldiers put up to killing foreign civilians. And sick of the brass screwing the soldiers. And sick of the brain-dead, tough-guy crap.

That is, no investigation -- just a bunch of writing on a paper to cover their tracks.