S02 - Ep. 7: Hindsight, Part 1

Serial - Serial S02 - Ep. 8: Hindsight, Part 2

Serial S02 - Ep. 8: Hindsight, Part 2

Coast Guard boot camp is still kind of a traditional boot camp.

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

From this American life in WB Easy Chicago, it's cereal.

I think the following will likely be a question at Bose Court Marshall.

Did the Army screw up by accepting Bo, by deploying him to Afghanistan?

Just to remind you, Bo 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 wave its usual standards,

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

So separation from the Coast Guard wasn't labeled a psych discharge on paper, but that's

We talked to a retired Army psychiatrist, Dr. Ellsworth Cameron Richie.

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0:00.0	Previously, on cereal.
0:04.3	Gentlemenly is a good word.
0:06.4	He's very much a gentleman.
0:07.8	Coast Guard boot camp is still kind of a traditional boot camp.
0:13.0	Do you think he's lying?
0:15.1	Um, and then all of a sudden he shows up in his uniform.
0:20.5	Yeah.
0:36.4	From this American life in WB Easy Chicago, it's cereal.
0:39.5	One story told week by week.
0:41.0	I'm Sarah Kainek.
0:47.8	I think the following will likely be a question at Bose Court Marshall.
0:51.5	Did the Army screw up by accepting Bo, by deploying him to Afghanistan?
0:56.9	Just to remind you, Bo was separated from the Coast Guard in 2006 after he became overwhelmed
1:02.3	and had a breakdown during basic training.
1:04.8	The Army in order to enlist him two years later would have to wave its usual standards,
1:09.4	which it did.
1:10.4	So the question actually is, did the Army recruiting process work like it was supposed to?
1:16.2	So separation from the Coast Guard wasn't labeled a psych discharge on paper, but that's
1:20.8	essentially what it was.
1:22.4	So did the Army miss something?
1:24.8	We talked to a retired Army psychiatrist, Dr. Ellsworth Cameron Richie.
1:28.9	She was deployed all over.
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Serial S02 - Ep. 8: Hindsight, Part 2

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