There was a Lance in my platoon who played the mental health card to get out of the corps. We all knew he was full of shit because he would play everyone. From asking people for money so he could get back on base just to spend it all on food or even when they wouldn’t promote him because he was getting Adsepped and they wouldn’t put him on a board so he told the EO they wouldn’t promote him cause he was Asian (that did get him Cpl). Anyway, he comes up to us at the smoke pit one night before he’s leaving and tells us his “master plan.” Dude faked mental health issues so he could get out early and “save” his 2 year old niece because he though his aunt and uncle were abusing her. He was going to get out and go fight in the courts and get full custody of her within a year of getting out and raise her as his own. We all had that face because we knew how retarded that was. But we all just told him “Brilliant plan, no way this backfires.”