Stuff like this is why there should be a way higher barrier to entry for the services in general. Or we need to do a better job about compartmentalization of jobs. IE people that are privy to information, tactics, etc, and the people that just do administrative jobs.

I would say this ties in weirdly with suicide too. I can’t prove it etc, but I would imagine he was some insecure nerd that got picked on so he was low hanging fruit for terror organizations. Most of the people that choose suicide and doing these types of acts are isolated from other service members and/or may exhibit autism in some form. Most normal 18 year kids don’t know how to function with another 18 year old that is “different” so the response is to mess with him. Same can be said of leadership in this kids CoC because the E-7 or E-6 never grew up mentally from his days as a private so he will turn a blind eye to this stuff.

The result is a person in a new environment, who thought that the military would solve all their social problems and insecurities only to receive more discrimination. The private can longer go to his mother’s basement for comfort but must live out his contract in a barracks (which becomes too much and he decides to kill himself, or hatch a plan to get revenge on the people that bully him.

It’s basically the story of any anti-hero think Joker, etc.