[Gary L]

Originally Posted by TheDon

He was a trained medical professional, so most likely enlisted as an officer, in all likeliness as a captain. This means his chance of seeing active service was pretty slim, he may have imagined he would see out his commission on a US base.

Also he was a base psychiatrist, what he signed up for, and the reality of war are entirely different, and he was in the unique position of having to hear everything bad about war, all those stories you read about and think "I couldn't cope with that" he had to listen to day in and day out, it's entirely possible that upon hearing he was being deployed he came to the realisation that he would be experiencing first hand the horrors of what he's been helping people deal with for years, and that caused him to break.

Or he didn't want to fight his own religion. when I say own religion I mean own people. and when I say own people I mean whatever you know it means.