Mother: Motorist who crashed into pedestrians is Army vet with PTSD
Authorities in Sunnyvale, Calif., identified Isaiah Joel Peoples as the suspect in an incident Tuesday, April 23, in which a car plowed into a crowd of people.
AnotherPat has been on a roll of late, and sends us a link to this Isaiah Joel Peoples person. Seems he took it upon himself to use his vehicle as a battering ram on pedestrians who had the temerity to be out and about on a fine Silicon Valley day. This horrific behavior is easily explained by his military service. Read on:
SUNNYVALE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
By JULIET WILLIAMS, JOCELYN GECKER AND JANIE HAR | Associated Press
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — A former U.S. Army sharpshooter with a history of PTSD plowed his car at high speed into a group of pedestrians in a quiet Silicon Valley suburb, injuring eight people including three children, and then told authorities that he intentionally hit them but has not said why.Police in Sunnyvale, Calif., said Wednesday that Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, was being held on eight counts of attempted murder. Four of the victims remained hospitalized with major injuries, including a 13-year-old girl in critical condition.
A witness, 72-year-old Don Draper, said he watched in horror as Peoples’ car sped through a crosswalk in a Sunnyvale shopping area Tuesday evening and bodies went flying. It was a warm night, around dinner time and people were out in cafes and restaurants in the area.
“I saw this woman fly through the air right in front of me. She flipped upside down and then fell right in front of my car,” Draper said, adding that he was so enraged, he marched over to Peoples’ car, which had swerved onto a sidewalk and crashed into a tree. He said Peoples did not appear drunk but looked dazed and was mumbling over and over, “Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.”
Sunnyvale police Capt. Jim Choi said authorities were still trying to determine a motive. There was no evidence linking Peoples to any terrorist organization but the crash was deliberate, he said.
Army sharpshooter. Ummm-Kay. Is that like every Marine is a rifleman? I’m sure the fact he was a drooling idiot when captured after the incident has nothing to do with his actions. Read the rest of the article here:Stars and Stripes
Thanks again, Pat!
Just for you and that fanboi 5/77 (congrats on your FIRST), gnba
That is all.
*grin*
Category: Army, Crime, Guest Link, Home Grown Terror, Police, PTSD
“serving as an Army sharpshooter in Iraq”
I served as an Army Expert in Viet of the Nam.
I knew damn near everything.
I earned a sharpshooter’s badge for the ye ol’ M-1 on a KD range in 1965. Does that make me an Army “sharpshooter?”
Had an E-5 in my shop who was a sexual genius.
He was a fucking know-it-all, and he challenged me, the Evaluator on his NATOPS check ride, that there wasn’t anything I could do that he couldn’t handle.
One pulled circuit breaker later, and he’d still be trying to power up his system to this day. So he CQ’ed system knowledge and perhaps learned a thing or two.
I had a blue card that invented the trick-fuck. He’d go out to the plane early and screw up every switch, CB, disconnect cannon plugs, shorten your parachute straps. He’d cock racks and disconnect LEMA’s and other assorted Search/Kill hijinks, then bury you with obscure NATOPS trivia. Fun times. Brutal and relentless. If you were not trouble shooting or getting grilled back in the galley you were sweating fire of unknown origin drills, immediate ditch drills, bailout drills(w and w/o poopy suit), smoke removal, disconnected HF antenna drills.
Your Evaluator was an asshole. I rarely dicked around with the aircraft before preflight- the first tour E-5 who threw down and challenged me, was an exception, and I pulled the c/b standing right behind him. I was a Blue Card in two P-3 squadrons, just for reference, and this was my second squadron.
My check rides were straight from the big blue book, and I emphasized safety and survival procedures and equipment. The CQ my salty E-5 earned wasn’t a downer, and was debriefed on post flight. It still stung the prima donna, and of course this went through the AW shop most ricky tick, and I had no further challenges to my NATOPS knowledge.
You squids sure talk funny. That post was in a language known only to code talkers.
I thought I added a “Smile” to that post.
Okay, sj, I will translate.
AW1Ed: I had a smart aleck who went by the book and I showed him up.
AO2 Smut: I got one better. I had a supervisor who intentionally fouled up everything on a pre-flight check up routine/list just because he could.
AW1Ed: Your super was a jerk. Someone tried that on me and it didn’t work. I knew all the tricks, made it easier to block him.
Its funny how we all are. When an Irishman friend talks to me, I can sort of understand him but when he is talking to a fellow countryman, it is impossible.
I’m a former Squid and don’t understand that lingo. Maybe because I was a Snipe.
Jeff:
Snipe? How about a Seabat?
Keep it up and you’ll wind up on Mail Buoy Watch, Pat.
*grin*
As well as getting sent to fetch six fathoms of Marline and a bottle of Cable Stretching Oil!
Black shoe / Brown shoe issues, Jeff.
I hope this clarifies the discourse for our Nautically Challenged friends here at TAH.
*grin*
Holy shit, I just ‘jacked my own post! Puppy on a leash..
Shame I didn’t get to edit that exchange–it might actually have made sense…
It’s Spoken Squid, Jeff–its users are the naval equivalent of Navajo Code Talkers.
AW1Ed has a master’s degree in Spoken Squid and is saving posts such as this above exchange for inclusion in his doctoral thesis.
Avast there and belay that noise, mister, or I’ll send you to the scuttlebutt for your ration of grog.
*grin*
Now that nautical-speak this landlubber understood!
Yup.
Every squadron has “that guy”, and always will. There’s one in every ready room.
We had a pilot in the squadron back in the day who made it clear that he believed that no one could teach/tell him anything about the aircraft, tactics, or flying in general; he thought that he knew more about everything than anyone else. The unfortunate thing was, he didn’t, but his profound arrogance prevented him from recognizing that he didn’t. He also didn’t have a very good set of hands when it came to physically flying the aircraft.
He ended up flying into the water while on downwind in the landing pattern during routine night shipboard flight ops.
Couldn’t find his body; he was declared lost at sea.
Damn. I would like to think these days with Crew Resource Management (CRM) in effect this type of behavior is no longer tolerated. But yeah, there is always ‘that guy.’
You served with John McCain’s twin brother?
My remark is for Mick, not you, Ed.
Articles like this, that make his sharpshooter qual seem like it’s relevant or even noteworthy, and immediately blaming PTSD make me sick. Lots of people have PTSD. It does not cause one to drive into a crowd of people. Drive yourself off a cliff maybe.
It’s more noteworthy to ask if Don Draper is really that witness’s name or not. (Probably the MD 20/20 talking… )
According to the Pentagon, it turns out that Peoples served as a Civil Affairs Specialist with the Army Reserves from March 2004 to July 2009, was a SGT and deployed to Iraq from June 2005 to May 2006.
Another Pentagon source said he did retire from the Army.
Evidently, his Mother thinks the reason he ran over those innocent peoole was somehow, he suffered from PTSD after serving as an Army “Sharpshooter” in Iraq.
Don’t know what Isaiah Joel Peoples had convey to his Mother on his Military service or his time in Iraq, but I doubt 100% that he as a Civil Affairs Specialist was a “Sharpshooter”.
Most likely, Peoples qualified on his weapon during Basic Training or after as a “Sharpshooter”. He probably wore the Sharpshooter Badge on his uniform that his Mother saw. He probably explained to his Mother the meaning of the Sharpshooter Badge…or she misunderstood what he did in the Army.
Or, he could have possibly embellished to his Mother what he did while serving, especially if he was deployed in the early timeframe of OIF.
He might had sent her a picture of himself holding a weapon while in Iraq…which could have given her the idea that her son “fought” the enemy in Iraq, instead of working with the local population as a Civil Affairs Specialist.
Am also questioning his “PTSD”.
Again, I doubt 100% that he “fought” in Iraq as a “Sharpshooter”…if he was Infantry, Yes. Civil Affairs, No.
Commissar was a Civil Affairs Officer who served in Iraq. Perhaps he can provide his opinion on this story if he reads this.
I have worked with Civil Affairs folks in the Sandbox during OEF/OIF as well as Exercises and I don’t recall any of them being “Sharpshooters”.
You Be The Judge.
Additionally, his Mother said he was taking alot of pills and had a cough.
The pills could have been an illegal drug that caused him to go beserk and run over those innocent people.
His Mother may be in denial, “Not my Son!” and came up with the PTSD excuse
I’ve been Civil Affairs (though, thankfully for the sake of my everlasting soul, not exclusively). It’s serving an important mission, on paper. In reality, it’s a force detriment as opposed to a force multiplier. The adage of “CA is where shitty officers go to get promoted” holds real weight. A tanker, passed over twice, says to himself, “I can be forced out or join CA – they’re always looking for Os!”
The prior service NCOs range from shit-hot to awful, but the shit-hot tend to leave early
” The adage of “CA is where shitty officers go to get promoted” holds real weight.”
A very wholehearted ‘THANK YOU’ from me and many another TAH Regular for that, you’ve given us something that says something about a goblin that shows up here from time to time and gets pounded. KUDOS to you, Hate_me!
What was worse is that during this time, while enlisted were going through a 12 week AIT or a 30 day MOS reclass course, we were so short of officers that they were being sent through a 12-day course to become civil affairs qualified. However, that amounted to about 8 days of only classroom training because day 1 was just admin and orinetation, the next week’s friday was graduation and they took the weekend in the middle off.
There are plenty of dirtbag officers in reserve and national guard units (and even on the AC side) but, CA has had our fair share of scumbags.
I was on this same rotation in Iraq, but I don’t recognize him or the name. There were 3 battalions of CA in Iraq on that rotation and he was very likely in one of the other battalions. Ours was in Baghdad and had the most difficult location of the three.
Even now the problem continues to be the lack of officers. One CA Battalion has 63 officer positions in it and most of those are CA Officer slots. Lots of challenges to getting those slots filled and retained that have continued to be problematic since 9/11.
I could talk about it for hours, but lots of things have been against CA since 9/11 happened, even including being pushed out of USASOC about a decade ago by dipshits in flag officer positions and Donny Rumsfeld himself.
As someone who served for four years in a Psyops company, which is a deployable element of a Civil Affairs Group, I can assure you that there are no TOE positions in any Civil Affairs Group for “sharpshooters.” Sharpshooting or sniping is contradictory to the missions of civil affairs units. This is just more BS from some loser who wants to blame his dysfunctional life and criminal conduct on his military service.
Thank You, rgr769…was getting ready to post a comment asking for your feedback on this since I remembered you once mentioning of being with a Civil Affairs (CA) unit (Pysops).
Wish the news Media, especially the Stars and Stripes, would get the facts straight up front. When I initially read the article, red flags went up on Peoples being a “Sharpshooter”, but was verified as being CA.
And again, I believe the Mother was ignorant on what her son did in the Army…and in denial as well. The ole “PTSD Made Me Do It” excuse.
His FOIA, if one is initiated, may come back as “Sharpshooter” on his Weapons qualification.
Gonna be interesting how the PTSD excuse will hold up in court. Still believe his behavior could be illegal drug use.
The 351st Civil Affairs Group became the 351st Civil Affairs Command. It is located in Mountain View California, where this douche worked for a US govt agency. He could have served in a Civil Affairs battalion that is located at that command HQ in Mountain View. Also, there is a Tactical Psyop battalion in Sacramento where his mother lives. All of these are Army Reserve units. And his service in one of these units resulted in his deployment to Iraq for 11 months. Neither of them would have a slot for someone trained as a sniper or sharpshooter.
The media is now reporting that he attacked people he believed were Muslims, and they are pitching that he has the dreaded PTSofD from his “combat service” in Iraq. His defense lawer is saying he will have him evaluated by the “finest” paid mind-reader available.
When someone gets his records, we will find out he was a clerk or worked in one of the print vans that print Psyops leaflets/flyers.
Over 2/3 of all PSYOP and Civil Affairs capability resides in Army Reserve units. When I deployed to Iraq with a PSYOP company we did not have slots for “snipers” or “sharpshooters.” The gunners were in the infantry division the PSYOP detachment supported.
In addition to Soldiers in the 37 MOS (PSYOP) we had Soldiers in support MOSs including human resources, supply, communications, and wheeled vehicle and generator mechanics.
Even if Joel Peoples was not a trigger puller, he could have spent considerable time outside the wire on Civil Affairs humanitarian and medical missions. Until the facts come out, I’m not completely willing to dismiss his PTSD history. That said, I’m not sure PTSD would’ve caused him to drive his vehicle into a crowd. There’s much more to learn about this man’s story.
Often the CA members of teams out and about were gunners, drivers, TC’s, etc. I spent most of my missions outside the wire as a 240B gunner on a gun truck. Just how it goes sometimes.
However, during this rotation, only a couple of our units were hit HARD and took casualties and they were all in my battalion. He wasn’t a part of my battalion as far as I can recall, which is about 90% sure he wasn’t. I knew pretty much every member of each company that took hard hits.
As well, I’m not saying he didn’t have PTS, but I’d have to know for sure what company he was with in Iraq to be able to speak to what he would’ve been a part of. That rotation was supremely mixed up and people were swapped to various units to fill positions to get us over the 80% line to be deployable.
Concur with all of your comments here and in your post below. We sometimes had PSYOP Soldiers as truck gunners, TCs, and drivers too. A tactical PSYOP element could be as few as three Soldiers so the maneuver unit being supported usually controlled the convoy formation and assignments.
When this veteran’s mother talks about her son being a gunner I think she means a truck gunner and not a sniper or infantryman. Met a lot of PSYOP and CA soldiers who were infantrymen before joining CAPOC but her son doesn’t seem to be one. I have little doubt based on his MOS and time frame in Iraq that he spent a lot of time outside the wire.
I was once a U.S. Army Specialist. My job was so important that I was allowed to use a telephone with a lot of buttons and a handset with the shoulder/neck enhancement device.
Despite having so much responsibility and authority, the thought of running over another person never came to mind–not even when I got yelled at for being late to work one morning.
Another linked article in S&S says that he had just picked up food and was on his way to feed it to his Bible study group when his trolley went off the tracks, so that has spurred the Whiz Wheel®™ into action:
Isaiah Joel Peoples (FBBSDC*) 31 x 11 = 341
* Full Blown Bat-Scheisse Drooling Crazy – H/T to Hondo
Isaiah Joel Peoples is the prime example of why we need more car control laws. It was prolly an automatic too. The horror! PTSD = Pill Taking Stupid Dumbass in his case. Here’s a novel idea. Have him stand in the street while the families of his victims take pot shots at him with their automatic cars. Give him a magazine while they try to clip him. Oh, and BTW Mom, your baby boy lied to you….again!
“AnotherPat has been on a roll of late….” Well, duh huh, a ROLL is what the TIDE does, ROLL! Fanboi? It’d be my honor. When I run away from home I’m taking AnotherPat with me. We going to snag Ex-PH2, eat bodacious amounts of good cooking, watch SEC Football, and tour all the Battlefield Parks while the Monuments are still there. The picture book we make from Ex’s pics will fund all of this.
gnba = gonna never beat army (grabs the grog jug and beats feet)
5th/77th FA commented:
“Well, duh huh, a ROLL is what the TIDE does, ROLL! Fanboi? It’d be my honor”..
And AW1Ed wrote:
“Just for you and that fanboi 5/77 (congrats on your FIRST), gnba..”
LOL,LOL,LOL!!!!!
You Two…Brothers at Heart!!!
We gotta take Ed with us when we all run away with Ex-PH2…Ed can cook a mean dish, plus, Ex-PH2 needs another Navy Buddy so they can comfort one another when Army beats Navy…AGAIN…
😎🐎🐐
gabn/hbtd/rtr
Not a bad idea. I do likes me some grilled crab cakes and other grilled beasts. And he does have good ol’ boy blood in his veins. And it would be nice to have somebody to drive the plane. And it would get the boy out of the PDRofMD. We’ll turn the words summer and winter into verbs. Prolly won’t take long to get Ex into a Scarlett accent…”Why yes Daahlin, we summer in the Dakota Hills and we winter in the Sunny South.”
soundslikeaplan gabn/rtr/hbtd
Always amazes me… well, not anymore actually… but when the perp is either native-born American, Christian or both, the media lead with that and suggests a hate crime.
But when they don’t show a photo of the person and keep preaching “It is important not to jump to any conclusions” then you know he is of Middle-Eastern descent and probably yelled “Allah Akbar” at the top of his lungs.
There are crazies in all walks of life, but the media tries to control the narrative and look stupid in the process.
The media will keep beating the he is a Christian meme right along with the PSTD horseshit until he is convicted and sentenced.
Get a good peek before the authorities shut it down.
https://www.facebook.com/isaiah.peoples1
His Facebook is so sparse…
😞
Yes, but one of his “friends” is a big fan of Che Guevara.
Sure… he’ll never for get that day over Macho Grande, too.
Those wounds run..
pretty deep…
PTSD MY ASS, I’ve dealt with it along with depression AND I NEVER even remotely thought of driving a vehicle into people. Sharpshooter? I wonder if that isn’t some Urinalist making shit up and publishing it ASAP just to kiss up to an Editor. What’s next, the snooze media feeding us a “Military Service is bad for you, mmmmmmmmmmkay” variety of propaganda?
Likely a major meme from Progda re this unfortunate criminal event. They have got this move down, since they have been doing it since about 1970.
I agree 100%. I’ve been dealing with PTSD for years and I have yet to feel like running people down or committing any of the crimes that the shitbags who claim PTSD as an excuse do.
“Sacramento clinical psychologist Diane Powell said PTSD is a diagnosis that covers many symptoms but becoming psychotic and homicidal is not typically one of them.”
This is not PTSD, and I am sick and fucking tired of people blaming anything and everything on it. If he has anything it’s probably a psychotic disorder like schizophrenia. Combat doesn’t cause it, and at most just brings the underlying mental illness from the prodrome to active. In men this tends to manifest around the same time most people enlist.
Perhaps things would have turned out different if he was a Army Marksman instead.
This is what his Lawyer said: “Peoples’ attorney Chuck Smith told reporters outside the courthouse that the defense will focus on claims his client suffers from post traumatic stress disorder from his years of serving in the military in Iraq.” “It’s clearly a case where his mental state is the issue,” he said. “There is no real issue in terms of what happened, but his mental state is going to be the battleground in the case. We are going to have him evaluated by the best people we can find because like all veterans he deserves the best people we can find…There is not other explanation for this than his service, the things he saw and what happened to him when he was our serving his country.” So it looks as if People’s Defense WILL focus on PTSD as the reason why he ran over innocent people. His Lawyer also said that People’s act was NOT intentional. As Comm Center Rat pointed out, CA folks DO go outside the wire. Alot of folks who were in Combat Support and Combat Service Support go outside the wire. Does going outside the wire become a cause for PTSD? I am having my doubts. Peoples has been out of the Army for 10 years. And according to his Mother, has been taking medication. What type of medication? Did he have a mental brain hiccup BEFORE he joined the Army and somehow, it got worse? The article also mentioned that he showed NO REMORSE in what he did…and as Claw pointed out, he was on his way to a Bible Study. It seems as those who were Non-Christians were targeted. Religous Fever? Last, what is frustrating is reading comments posted by others on various news media that covered this story in that folks believed he was a “gunner” or a “sniper” or that he lost it because he spent time (his Lawyer said YEARS) in Iraq “killing” people…and of course, it is all Trump’s fault, even though Trump was NOT President in 2005-2006, the year People’s served in Iraq. 13-14 years ago…and now in… Read more »
“Does going outside the wire become a cause for PTSD?”
No, not unless you run into some bad shit that “may” result in a diagnosis, even years later. He better have some “specific” stressors or he is toast on the PTSD claim.
I’ll say one thing for him, he is now “unemployable” for sure and will be on SS Disability before I finish typing.
And this is interesting:
“Sacramento clinical psychologist Diane Powell said PTSD is a diagnosis that covers many symptoms but becoming psychotic and homicidal is not typically one of them.”
“The religious statement is suspicious,” Doctor Powell said. “I would want to know much more about that. I would want to know the history. How long has it been, since he has shown an array of symptoms that are so-called PTSD.”
“Veterans and veterans with PTSD and other mental disorders deserve not to simply be locked up but rather treated and helped,” Peoples’ attorney Chuck Smith said.”
“Recent California state law requires judges to consider a defendant’s U.S. military record and PTSD diagnosis, as a mitigating factor only at the time of sentencing.”
“Whether an individual really suffers from it, and whether that affected or has consequences on their behavior is still something that’s always litigated, it’s peculiar to the person though,” Sacramento attorney Mark Reichel said.”
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/04/26/ptsd-sunnyvale-crash-court-case/
Beans, I’m of a mind that with him being in Civil Affairs, which is all about making nice with the locals, that perhaps instead of “Sharpshooter” they should have used “Shitshooter” to more accurately portray his service in-country.
Here is a clip of his Army experience while in Iraq.
He most likely got PTSD from direct exposure to PowerPoint presentations and pressures as a direct result of those long water purification planning sessions.
Thank You, sbalm.
So the plot thickens. He was only on Active Duty for 1 year.
His other years were most likely spent attending Drill once a month for 2 days and 2 weeks for Annual Training while with his unit.
Yep, he covered the basics of performing Humanitarian operations while in the Box as a Civil Affairs Soldier. His unit probably worked with Engineers in building schools, digging wells, building roads…they also could have been working with local and Military Doctors in treating the Iraqi civilians: Innoculating children, older folks, setting up a small Medical Field Clinic in treating those Civilians…
You get the picture.
If he joined the Army in 2004, he might have been a PFC or an Army Specialist (E4) when deployed. Don’t think he was an E5 when he was in the Sandbox.
The Pentagon said he “retired” in 2009, 4 years after he joined. Medical Retirement?
Hopefully, someone will request a FOIA on him to obtain his records.
FWIW the US Army White Pages on the HRC website list Isaiah Joel Peoples as SGT, Retired.
CCR:
Thank You for sharing.
Medical retirement?
His Mother said he was “forced” to retire because of PTSD.
Just because you find a weak simplified example of a job description on linkedin does not make it so.
While those are common tasks associated with our job, there’s a lot more to it as well. For some CA teams assigned to support maneuver units, they had to provide their own security, be gunners, drivers, TC’s, etc., to conduct missions outside the wire almost daily.
One of our companies in Baghdad was filled with purple hearts from our 05-06 rotation. Only 2 people in the company of 32 didn’t have one. Our battalion lost 9 heroes because we were getting attacked so often. As an E4/E5 he was very likely a driver or gunner if he was on a CA Team.
Regardless of all that, his mom could say all kinds of things about why or what happened, but until we find out the full story, it could’ve been a lot of things.
And again, People’s Mother is in denial.
She blames the Army, instead of him…and said he was “forced” to retire from the Army in 2009, even though she also stated that his “PTSD” did not kick in until 2015.
Sounds as if People’s may have been discharged because of a Mental Condition. He might have had some sort of mental illness BEFORE joining the Army.
This is what his Mother said:
“He’s an Army vet, he’s a good kid, never been arrested. I promise you: It was not deliberate. If anything, it was that Army.”
“She said Peoples had “a bad episode” with PTSD in 2015 and has told her that he had been regularly taking medication since then.”
“The mother said the Army forced her son to retire because of PTSD.”
He “retired” in 2009 and 10 years later, he decides to run over innocent people.
Mother: “He’s an Army vet, he’s a good kid, never been arrested.”
Dec 5, 2007 – Battery against a police officer / Misdemeaner (Plead no contest)
Jun 9, 2008 – Obstruct/Etc Pub Ofcr/Etc / Misdemeaner (Plead no contest)
And I think he wrote a bad check….
The Mother is in denial.
His Father is or was a Preacher/Minister.
And now his Brother said he was a “Gunner” while in Iraq…and was treated in several Mental hospitals after his discharge from the Srm, as well as hearing voices, but was NEVER diagnosed with PTSD:
“He was a gunner when they were driving,” his brother Joshua said. “Every time he would call us he was doing security for a post.”
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/24/brother-man-accused-of-driving-into-sunnyvale-crowd-was-iraq-veteran-suffered-ptsd/
Entirely possible. I was an Engineer and ran several missions with CA units in Northern Iraq in 2004. Knew a damned fine CA LTC that was killed by being t-boned by a VBIED in Oct 2004.
The story keeps changing:
Now the story is that his Brother said he was a Gunner and provided security BEFORE he worked in Civil Affairs:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-tns-bc-driver-plow-20190427-story.html
” He worked in civil affairs, but before that, he served as a gunner and provided security, his brother said. He was honorably discharged, according to Army records, and received numerous awards and commendations, including an Army Commendation Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Combat Action Badge and Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.”
A CAB? His Linkedin as displayed by sbalm does not mention he was a “Gunner.”
Something is not right, unless perhaps he performed “Gunner” while riding in a tactical vehicle convoy while visiting the Iraqi locals?
And this is interesting:
“Sacramento clinical psychologist Diane Powell said PTSD is a diagnosis that covers many symptoms but becoming psychotic and homicidal is not typically one of them.”
“The religious statement is suspicious,” Doctor Powell said. “I would want to know much more about that. I would want to know the history. How long has it been, since he has shown an array of symptoms that are so-called PTSD.”
“Veterans and veterans with PTSD and other mental disorders deserve not to simply be locked up but rather treated and helped,” Peoples’ attorney Chuck Smith said.”
“Recent California state law requires judges to consider a defendant’s U.S. military record and PTSD diagnosis, as a mitigating factor only at the time of sentencing.”
“Whether an individual really suffers from it, and whether that affected or has consequences on their behavior is still something that’s always litigated, it’s peculiar to the person though,” Sacramento attorney Mark Reichel said.”
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/04/26/ptsd-sunnyvale-crash-court-case/
Another puzzling factor was that he supposely worked for DoD as an auditor, yet his car regristration was invalid, because he wrote a Bad Check for the regristration.
A Pentagon source said he retired from the Army. If true, he was medically retired. I dont think he is old enough to serve 20+ years.
“Sharpshooter” could have been mistaken for “shitburner”. Nothing wrong with being a shitburner. Rite of passage.
Hey, people leave you alone when you’re burning shit. That’s a plus l
I can handle the reports,documents and charts…
But not the haunted (shiver runs down spine, beads of sweat forming on forehead, uric acid building in left big toe…)
Sprrreaddsheeets….
DAMN YOU SPREADSHEETS!
DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!
Now they include spread sheets in their Power Point presentations. I keep jabbing a sharpened #2 pencil into my thigh, and even that didn’t work.
The people who inflict this on us are evil.
You need to adapt this to “A Few Good Men” …
“I just need to see your copier maintenance log. For the file.”
“Sure… you just have to ask me nicely.”
“Excuse me?”
“You see, I can deal with the reports, the documents and the charts.
I don’t want money and I don’t want medals.
What I DO want is for you to stand there in that faggoty white copier repairman uniform,
… and with your Kyocera trade school mouth, extend me some freakin’ courtesy.”
PTSD…hmm
OK…well make sure treatment is available in as much the benefits afforded prisoners where he is incarcerated allows.
Otherswise…no fukks given
“The I-Team obtained Peoples’ military records under the Freedom of Information Act, showing he served with the Army 445th Civil Affairs Battalion during 2005 and 2006 in Iraq.”
“His family tells Dan Noyes he changed after his tour suffering PTSD, and that he was treated at the Sacramento VA.”
“Officials there would not confirm that, citing HIPPA regulations”.
Note: I think Jonn use to work with Dan Noyes of the I-Team, ABC News7 out of Caifornia.
“Isaiah Peoples Worried About Job Before ‘Intentional’ Sunnyvale Crash”
https://abc7news.com/isaiah-peoples-worried-about-job-before-intentional-sunnyvale-crash/5271322/
If this fuckhead has the PTSofD, then I need to get to the VA and start claiming it, because I saw a hell of a lot more traumatic shit than he did. But I guess papercuts and puzzling over spread sheets can be pretty scary. I’ll believe he saw some scary shit when I hear from two or three guys who went outside the wire with him and picked up body parts from comrades.
I was a little hesitant about posting the following, because it may open up the proverbial PTSD floodgates.
As most of you know, you don’t have to have experience combat to be diagnosed with PTSD. It can be the mere thought of going to combat or any fearful situation, even being raped.
So, if one were to get out of the military and find their life going nowhere and are financially strapped – well after a while that PTSD gravy train sounds good.
All you have to say, as a male, is that you were A$$ raped by a senior ranking male on a ship setting off the Vietnam coast. You were reluctant to come forward out of embarrassment. No proof, you just have to break down and cry in front of the psychiatrist.
Then, you will see large numbers of sailors coming forward with the same story. They will be seen as brave and comments will be floated such as “A$$ raping aboard ship was a bigger problem than we knew… based on the sheer numbers of men coming forward.” 60 Minutes will pick up on it and do a segment, complete with an old sailor breaking down to cry as he recounts the ordeal in graphic depiction.
Then, it will be a “thing.”
You heard it here first.
for a person to have post traumatic stress disorder, there must have been the traumatic event in the first place. This is indicated by the “post” part of the title.
Stress from thinking about something that may happen is called anxiety and one would be neurotic if it caused such activities. In military terms, this is known as lack of resiliency or cry baby boo boo. There is no DSM category for “Pre Traumatic Stress Disorder” although there are several categories of phobia which may apply.
If this guy has a mental illness, I’m betting on borderline personality disorder or one of the many forms of PMOD (Post Moronic Action Disorder).
Dan Noyes of ABC7 in California said Peoples was with the 445th Civil Affairs Battalion.
Here is a small article about Company C, 445th CA BN- they were building Water Treatment Plants in the Diyala Province in northern Iraq in April 2006…the same time Peoples was there:
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/6035/civil-affairs-specialist-plays-key-role-building-water-treatment-plants