inside the base is very nice guy it took me two or two all inside the base also the area where my son is supposed to be di. i'm part of these. people they help much about the area he told me about eighteen seventeen two year cycle. shower toilet everything was the same but different petition this guy is a new guy you don't know if you know about two years ago or because he really u.s. government two months ago. i r c i took it peter you know inside the toilet when my son is died. before i think you know it was small or something toilet but no i see real real is a big you guys pay for five six thousand people or more. and now in my head is something more and more sure you know somebody shot their way

maced on the side and they shot. back i go back to. everything you know. different in my head we're talk to my family what i see inside the base oh i see this all this old you know. because one was updating his family about his trip we were meeting with friends a canned writing expert. who's findings were about to change the course of our investigation. and what specifically are you kidding john for it's very. well the dynamics of the writing are very consistent he has a print script we can see it in his samples we have some. looks like school no it's or chapter notes it's called chapter twelve i don't know what he was doing but there are there are notes that he wrote and then we have some

other. government looks like government related. documents to compare and i have a significant number of events so i was able to nail down some of the key ingredients in his known handwriting to compare so these are some of the characteristics that were two which is not as important as the because him's are clearly. his kind of identifier. and so we've got the word doctors if we take his known writing we've got the word doctors in his known writing there right on the money. we've got the word meanness known writing. the two which are connected. and we've got pain. which i can i can find.

here's here's pain here. yeah so we have it here and here and we have it here as well you always have to keep in mind the idea that writing is never exact every time you write there's a little variation your writing evolves over time but it always has variation within it and so understanding the dynamics of the writing you might see something being not exact and think it's different it's not within the context of the writing . and so these are just a few of the characteristics stand out as being the highlights of his writing and the identifiers. with no definitive proof of why john was suffering and only veiled references the lariam in his unit's taking of the drug we decided to request all of his medical

records to the freedom of information act but in the two years since his death his records at all disappeared they've not been sent to the appropriate storage facility by his unit when contacted a representative from his unit said they had nothing to send according to witnesses weeks after john's death men in suits came to the unit's office and cleared it of all personnel when they left there was no paperwork left with the name john taurus the men failed to sign a receipt is required and witnesses were unsure who they were the most believe they were from the sea id i contacted the cod and asked if they had taken the records from the unit in a written response they simply stated you will have your sources to confirm their allegations i have addressed your questions as they pertain to see id good luck with your production. as a last resort we request what few documents may still be on file with army medical command to manage the medical records of active duty soldiers they informed us that

they would send a packet containing the few documents they still had the pointed out that what they were sending had been included in the criminal investigation report we had received when the package arrived and included the mental health evaluation cited but missing from the cia report it was redaction free and at first glance it became clear white had been purged from the copy sent to the family. the mental health evaluation was written by major robert ns lee m.d. an army psychiatrist who serving with the two fifty fourth medical detachment at baghran when john died the c. id report stated that john committed suicide is the result of anxiety and unresolved sematic pain but according to major n's lee's evaluation his sematic anxiety symptoms were not sufficiently severe based on objective findings to precipitate such an extreme response his psychological stressors were likewise mild especially in contrast to the very promising future that would have begun in earnest in just two months with relatively minimal psycho social factors present

a biological basis may be the primary precipitant if toxicology reveals the presence of meth specialist tours this case should be viewed in light of other suicides suspected to be associated with the drug that document is the first military document i have ever seen that seems to suggest that the army was aware that lariam may be causing suicides in the field and they were tracking and i've never seen that before i've only seen the army say that there's absolutely nothing to this that larry misses safe as aspirin in his two thousand and four congressional testimony general pete testified that normally suicides have been linked to lariam but acknowledged the drug was received poorly by army personnel. and if you look back at that history where there was combat duty during world war two where there was agent orange in vietnam the military has been always slow to react to negative things and they did things that could affect the soldiers for

instance agent orange for a while that we didn't believe agent orange caused the cancer and we later learned of them did. so then now we have lariam which the military created and the army invented lariam wall's knows nothing then army invented it so the pharmaceuticals ropes pharmaceutical sales of the military so it's kind of hard for then at least my perspective it's hard for the military to acknowledge we have a problem with this drug. until it finally takes years of people unfortunately dying like in the case that you have dying from larry in talks this city the thing about lariam that you have to remember is that it's from a class of drugs called quinolones quinolones actually are relatively unusual in that they cross the blood brain barrier so in other words if i take tylenol that goes into my blood it goes through my body it passes through this goes to the brain

it is absorbed into the brain like fat and that is why the roach officials have told me it gets in there and for certain people want to it's done is damage inside the brain the damage is done inside the brain. when medication is taken in pill form like a meth look when we look at how much is absorbed and that's it's got very good gastrointestinal absorption and it turns out that it's really heavily concentrated in tissues throughout the body liver kidneys koreas and that includes the brain so when we're talking about neuro psychiatric symptoms or go so far as even talk about brain toxicity then the brain has some protection from what's in the plasma with regards to the blood brain barrier and obviously if

a medication doesn't cross that blood brain barrier then it can't get into the brain and cause damage but mefloquine obviously does concentrate in the brain as a dozen other tissues. concentrates you know very much. according to roche only one in ten thousand users suffer side effects from the drug but a study published in one nine hundred ninety six by the british medical journal found that one in one hundred forty travelers taking mefloquine can expect to have a neuro psychiatric adverse event unpleasant enough to temporarily prevent them from carrying out their day to day activities. in march of two thousand and eight the malaria journal published a study conducted by the armed forces medical surveillance center. study examine the medical records of over eleven thousand active duty military personnel deployed to afghanistan in two thousand and seven of that sample the report states that

almost ten percent showed evidence of a contraindication the lariam with females more than twice as likely as males to suffer significant side effects yet the military continued to use the drug. the mental health evaluation also questions the care afforded john before his death ensley notes that john's medical records indicate he sought help for his symptoms and that after repeated doctor visits failed to find anything physically wrong with him john asked to be sent to germany for further testing his request was denied and he was sent to see a psychiatrist you know after repeated trips to the bases hospital and multiple meetings with the psychiatrist the medical staff still missed the warning signs of lariam toxicity according to police report specialist tours complaints apparently dated back to the beginning of his deployment possibly coinciding with his treatment course of lariam but in his medical visits no link was made between this medication and his sematic symptoms even when he was diagnosed with some form of

anxiety there is no mention of lariam is potentially causing or exacerbating the problem. military medicine does of things wonderfully well i mean they get people off the battlefield very very quickly you know if you get your legs blown off god forbid in iraq they do a wonderful job one of the things that military medicine is i think many critics would agree on is they are just bad at side effects whether it's lariam side effects or the anthrax shot side effects it is just not information that gets out in the field it is not emphasized it's not something that people are made aware of and it's a it's a it's a real problem because a lot of these soldiers are totally full of drugs and vaccines and they have problems and some of the problems are deadly. remember when you join the military you give up certain rights and certain rights that you give up as sort of free choice you are required to follow your community's orders and that's what the military is based upon and that's why we can send soldiers into combat we can say

go take that hill go face enemy fire because they're following orders and that training begins very early when you enter the military you are trained to follow your commanders orders and commanders orders can be not only go ahead take the the hill charge the enemy but you'll take this pill because at the time you know they're concerned with the soldiers getting malaria and so if the soldiers get sick with malaria that reduces combat efficiency so as a result they say take this medication we don't want you getting malaria so the soldier has no choice whatsoever he takes the medication. well i think that individuals listen to what they need to listen to so if you put if you put an individual in harm's way they're going to acutely listen to what they need to know to keep them alive so you can bet that when somebody goes through basic training there they're paying attention to the kinds of things they need to know like how to maintain their rifle how to how to handle of a rocket launcher how to throw

a grenade. those are things that people need to learn to stay alive if you told a soldier that they're taking a medication which could also potentially result in their death they would pay attention to you sadly john's case and his parents' experience is not unique my son's. death has devastated my life i. have moments where i'm happy i don't think i've realized a joyful moment in six years. i really believed in a very naive way that if i never gave up and that if i was diligent and vigilant enough and that i could succeed in having the military acknowledge that this is a toxic that should not be used to date i have not. been sexed successful in doing so i continue in my efforts and as many people who know me my friends and my family

. know i have said to them i'm more than one occasion that of christopher had lost his life in combat. that i would not miss him any less but i could except that i could understand that. it would be a real event. we knew it was always possible. maureen palmer son christopher sherry a lieutenant in the united states marine corps and a member of its elite special forces committed suicide aboard a navy transport ship he was returning home after an eight month the point to the middle east his mother's investigation into his death including an autopsy and other testing would lead to a finding that chris had been suffering from lariam toxicity but six years ago when i sent my son to the marine corps an event that would never been possible was that

he would take his life and so in answer to your question it continues to be a huge open. wound in my life. an intellectual level i understand what happened to christopher that he had evolved because the drug wasn't psychotic state he and psychotic break he was not in possession of his good mind when he took his life. but there is a part of me that as his mother of twenty eight years still doesn't understand how such a sound stable. vital happy young man could have devolved that fast and that far three days before his death chris quit bathing stop shaving and his behavior became erratic he also confided in a fellow officer that he wanted to kill himself yet no one intervened. because fear

was very concerned with other people he picked up the moniker nine one one when he was in prep school and continue to follow him through college and through the marines nine one one shave a time anywhere for anybody. one of the things that's hurtful the most to me is that when i continue to review and review in my mind the days that led up to the instance of chris death no one was there for him. it's one of the pieces of this i find hardest to accept after his death the marine corps would claim there had been no warning signs chris was suffering as a car to break or was in danger yet when his mother received a copy of the eulogy delivered aboard the ship it was clear his condition was known good afternoon is with a sad and heavy heart that i speak with you today as the commanding officer of india company i would like to thank those of you outside the company for joining us on our official day of mourning for lieutenant chris. we're not here today to

memorialize or condone the way lieutenant shea took his life rather we are here to memorialize the man we knew and worked with this last year i would ask that you not judge second lieutenant shays final act and act so completely uncharacteristic of the man we knew i feel confident the pending investigations into his death will reveal that some chemical imbalance in lieutenant shea took over his mind and caused him to make the ultimate irrational decision. a decision that has left all of us who knew him stunned the highest compliment a marine can receive is to be told that you would want them on your flank in a fight chris shea was the kind of man you would want on your flank in any fight that is the man we will remember and nothing that lieutenant she had done in the last seventy two hours will change that fact i do have a concern whether or not the highest reaches of the command structure have some degree of a conflict of interest. because it took the united states army

a long long time to acknowledge the toxicity of agent orange i mean i remember working in a v.a. as a medical student where it was not a rate of disability whereas it is now routinely. so i think that there there may be a worry. about opening up pandora's box and i think there's no question that the the medical military command structure is subordinate to the commander to the line command so i don't think that you know surgeon generals of the you know army on navy or air force. you know speak out of turn i think they're there they have a clear. obligation to their superiors. as far as the army is concerned not sure about the navy or the air force but far as the army is concerned they've moved to

what's called combat teams brigade combat teams with a never gate combat brigade surgeon never gave certain commute captain or major well the battalion commanders of the ten a colonel the brigade commander colonel all out rank the brigade surgeon brigade surgeon will make recommendations to the battalion commander or brigade commander but that's all the our recommendations the brigade commander doesn't have to follow the recommendations or the battalion commanders not to follow the recommendations i know from my personal experience i was a trial counsel for several years meaning that as a military prosecutor i was in charge of prosecuting crimes that occurred within a particular brigade and as a result i would have direct contact the brigade commanders the battalion commanders the company commanders. i also would attend staff meetings and i saw the interaction between the brigade commanders battalion commanders and the staff and i think there is a on i want to say a bias well maybe there's

a bias that the support staff the attorneys the doctors make their recommendations but the line officers they'll take that recommendation and whether they agree with it or not will consider the recommendation but ultimately it's their own decision and what they will do and i guess as it should be whoever the problem is that there's a bias against what the what the lawyer the doctor is recommending and for instance his other commanders are saying we don't believe that lariam stuff or we don't think it's a it's a medical risk or the research is really not completed then they discount there's a warning discount that warning the other thing is to remember is the hierarchy in the medical command. and some military post will fall under the division commander so you think about in the belly of the division commander is the big umbrella underneath that is all the units and if they're in there if they're in the reporting. and so for instance if they're in the the chain in which they're being

evaluated in any which way by that division commander there's always a concern about what you do or what you report up the chain of command and how it affects you as your own job do you could receive a negative rating if you receive some negative comments from your own command as a result of what you reported up. there which working for years. to get him out of the army. filling out. the mental health evaluation also put to rest the rumors surrounding jones to. do the unexpected nature of his suicide special stores this case attracted a number of rumors suggesting

a cover up most of which were dispelled in the course of the investigation. rumors that leads had sent him a dear john letter were unfounded and surfaced as a means of explaining his suicide and. allegations of rampant drug trafficking with the theory that specialist tours was murder because he knew too much were dramatic over embellish ment's who sources included individuals associated with the two females who actually were sent back for alyssa drug use. somebody even if they don't know they don't know what they do. they come and say you lost your son in them a week or two weeks later they say oh you know was your son killed himself he was no mean feat. you know what they this. was i work in some pain too you have a sixteen eighteen hours because we need the support of a farmer. support the futile make kids. finally i think. you know we've got the

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