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  1. The #gunman, #RobertCard, was a #grenade instructor in the #ArmyReserve. In 2023, after 8 yrs of being exposed to thousands of skull-shaking blasts on the training range, he began hearing #voices & was stalked by #paranoid #delusions. He grew increasingly erratic & #violent in the months before the Oct rampage in #Lewiston, in which he killed 18 people & then himself.

    #MassShooting #GunControl #law #CTE #BrainDamage #Maine #medicine #science #neuroscience #MentalHealth #trauma #psychology

  2. A specialized laboratory examining the #brain of the gunman who committed #Maine’s deadliest #MassShooting found profound #BrainDamage of the kind that has been seen in #veterans exposed to repeated blasts from #weapons use.

    The lab’s findings were included in an autopsy report that was compiled by the Maine chief ME’s office & released by the #gunman’s family.

    #RobertCard #GunControl #law #CTE #Lewiston #ArmyReserve #medicine #science #neuroscience #MentalHealth #trauma #psychology

  3. Specialist Sanders & Specialist Moffett both enlisted in the #ArmyReserve in 2019 & were trained to operate heavy equipment, such as road graders. #Tower22 was Specialist Moffett’s first deployment. Specialist Sanders had been deployed once before, in 2021, to an American outpost in Djibouti.

    #Jordan #IRI #UnitedStates #Israel #Hamas #Iran #geopolitics
    nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/us-s

  4. The three who were killed on Sunday are part of an often overlooked part of the military that delivers supplies, maintains buildings, builds roads and does other routine work while shouldering the risk of operating in hostile territory.

    Sergeant Rivers was trained as an electrician, had served in the #ArmyReserve for more than a decade and had been deployed to Iraq in 2018 during the fight against Islamic State militants, according to Army records.

    #Tower22 #IRI #Jordan

  5. The dead were identified as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46; Spec. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24; & Spec. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23. They were members of an #ArmyReserve unit, the 718th Engineer Company, from Fort Moore in Georgia & the first American troops killed by hostile fire since the war in #Gaza triggered a steep rise in #violence across the #MiddleEast.

    #Tower22 #Jordan #IRI #UnitedStates #Israel #Hamas #Iran #Hezbollah #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics