OREGON GUNMAN WAS ARMY BASIC-TRAINING DROPOUT
Killer couldn’t meet minimum standards
DOUGLAS ERNST
WND.com
Oct. 2,2015
The gunman who killed nine and wounded seven others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, Thursday was a U.S. Army basic training dropout.
It only took Chris Harper-Mercer just over one month to flunk out of basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 2008.
Seven years later, the 26-year-old would die in an exchange of gunfire with cops after targeting and slaughtering Christians in a gun-free zone.
Army spokesman Lt. Col. Ben Garrett confirmed Harper-Mercer’s discharge to the Associated Press on Friday, saying he failed to meet the Army’s minimum standards.
Lt. Col. Ben Garrett did not elaborate on which standards, specifically, ended Harper-Mercer’s enlistment. New soldiers must pass a battery of physical and academic tests over the course of basic training. They also must be in good mental health.
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