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Gentlemen Lee is a good word.

He is very much a gentleman.

Coastguard boot camp is still kind of a traditional boot camp.

Do you think he's lying?

Um, and then all of a sudden he shows up in his uniform.

Yeah. From this American life in W.B. Z. Chicago, it's serial. One story told week by week.

I'm Sarah Kading.

I think the following will likely be a question at Bow's court-martial. Did the Army screw up by accepting Bow, by deploying him to Afghanistan?

Just to remind you, Bow was separated from the Coast Guard in 2006, after he became overwhelmed

and had a breakdown during basic training.

The Army, in order to enlist him two years later, would have to waive its usual standards,

which it did.

So the question actually is, did the Army recruiting process work like it was supposed to?

Bose separation from the Coast Guard wasn't labeled a psych discharge on paper,

but that's essentially what it was.

So did the Army miss something?

We talked to a retired Army psychiatrist, Dr. Elspith Cameron Ritchie.

She was deployed all over. She was chief of forensic psychiatry

and also of inpatient psychiatry at Walter Reed.

And she was psychiatry consultant to the Army Surgeon General, the top mental health advocacy

position in the Army.

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