Battle Fatigue

A shooting occured at the Ft. Hood SRP, Service Readiness Processing Center. I had just woken up and turned on my television set in my Chu. One year earlier, I was as Ft. Hood, obtaining the necessary medical clearance for my deployment to Iraq.
November 5, 2009, started like any other day at Ft. Hood, one of the largest military complexes with about 40,000 troops, and home to the Army's 1st Calvalry Division in Killeen, Texas. Soldier's were standing in line, going through medical preparation stations. Each solider had to be cleared to go to Iraq or Afghanistan with their unit.
A loud sound broke the silence! Soldiers then heard someone yelling, "Allahu Akbar!" Shooting rang out, and soldiers started falling like shooting gallery targets being hit at an amusement park!
A medical worker hid under her desk in terror as she heard more shots fired around her. Chaos ruled as the shooting continued. One soldier felt a sting as a bullet hit him in the arm and he fell. Three soldiers in line were gunned down and lay helpless on the floor. The shooter was standing on top of a desk firing wildly in every direction.
One soldier managed to crawl out of the building. He later returned to help a few others out, fortunate not to have been hit himself. A police woman was in the area, heart the radio report, and did not hesitate to respond. She charged in, shot the attacker four times, and was hit in the process. According to reporters, the shooting took less than ten minutes.
The announcer on my TV continued, "A Major Husan, a psychiatrist working at Darnell Hospital at the base in Ft. Hood shot and killed twelve military personnel, one civilian, and injured thirty-one others." I could not believe what I was hearing! I knew soldiers in the unit Major Husan was deploying with, so I desperately wanted to know who had been shot.
At the beginning of my deployment, I was at home when I heard about the Camp Liberty tragedy. Now I was in Iraq, hearing more bad news, but it was back in the States at Ft. Hood. I really believe it was God protecting me.
That day at the clinic I read in an article online that said "Hasan 39 had listened to soldier's tales of horror. Now the American-born Muslim was facing imminent deployment to Afghanistan."
I learned later that MAJ Husan was to be deployed with the 467th Combat Stress Control Detachment. He didn't want to serve in Afghanistan because he was Muslim. He wanted out of the military, but they would not release him. One of the psychiatrists at our clinic worked with him at Walter Reed. Of the twelve military personnel killed, three of them were from Husan's unit the 467th. I found out two others were from the unit that was to replace ours! They were from the 1908th Combat Stress Control. Who were the soldiers killed in the 467^th? Did I know them?