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I guess that not discussing an incident doesn't count to your Father........ and "shell-shocked"?? I thought we booted that term out long ago.
Shell-shocked soldier faces court martial
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/12/12/16522291.html
By DOUG HEMPSTEAD, QMI Agency
OTTAWA - The father of a decorated CFB Petawawa soldier has lost confidence in the military after his son - who has post-traumatic stress disorder - faces discipline after suffering flashbacks during a live-fire exercise.
Cpl. Felix Ngoviky, 33, can't discuss the incident. But he is to appear before a court martial Dec. 14 in Petawawa, Ont.
According to his father, Paul Ngoviky, the corporal faces three charges after he was rude to a non-commissioned officer on the training ranges in Petawawa on Oct. 28, 2009.
Ngoviky's father said he has documentation from a psychiatrist who diagnosed his son with moderate but chronic post-traumatic stress disorder - an anxiety disorder and a panic disorder.
He said it was this stress that led him to "freak out and have flashbacks" on the Petawawa ranges last fall, after his son was placed near the live-fire targets. When he was unable to continue with the exercise, his son became insubordinate - something Cpl. Ngoviky does not dispute.
According to documents obtained by QMI Agency, Cpl. Ngoviky stamped his foot in a mock salute and sarcastically proclaimed "yes sergeant" to a superior officer.
He's charged with disobeying the order of a superior, behaving in a contemptuous manner to a superior and with conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline.
He intends to plead guilty.
Cpl. Ngoviky served in Afghanistan for seven months from Aug. 2005 until Feb. 2006. In that time, he was a passenger in a convoy headed from Kabul to Kandahar that came under rocket attack. Cpl Ngoviky was also the victim of violence by a fellow soldier. On Dec. 25, 2005, Master Cpl. T.J. Mills and Ngoviky got into a fight that ended with Mills pointing and cocking a weapon at him.
When Mills was found guilty in Sept. 2008 and handed a suspended sentence, the military judge Lieut.-Col. J. G. Perron told him "your actions have also affected the psychological well-being of the victim."
But Ngoviky's father said all of this could have been avoided had the military been more understanding of his son's condition.
"As a father, it's very upsetting," he said. "I have no trust whatsoever in the military. I could scream. I could yell. I could swear."
"If he has an attitude problem, they created it," he said.
Court martial convener Simone Morrisey said being that so many soldiers have served over seas, post-traumatic stress is "one of the defences they come back with."
She said Cpl. Ngoviky has been assigned defence council and the court martial is open to the public.
doug.hempstead@sunmedia.ca
Shell-shocked soldier faces court martial
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/12/12/16522291.html
By DOUG HEMPSTEAD, QMI Agency
OTTAWA - The father of a decorated CFB Petawawa soldier has lost confidence in the military after his son - who has post-traumatic stress disorder - faces discipline after suffering flashbacks during a live-fire exercise.
Cpl. Felix Ngoviky, 33, can't discuss the incident. But he is to appear before a court martial Dec. 14 in Petawawa, Ont.
According to his father, Paul Ngoviky, the corporal faces three charges after he was rude to a non-commissioned officer on the training ranges in Petawawa on Oct. 28, 2009.
Ngoviky's father said he has documentation from a psychiatrist who diagnosed his son with moderate but chronic post-traumatic stress disorder - an anxiety disorder and a panic disorder.
He said it was this stress that led him to "freak out and have flashbacks" on the Petawawa ranges last fall, after his son was placed near the live-fire targets. When he was unable to continue with the exercise, his son became insubordinate - something Cpl. Ngoviky does not dispute.
According to documents obtained by QMI Agency, Cpl. Ngoviky stamped his foot in a mock salute and sarcastically proclaimed "yes sergeant" to a superior officer.
He's charged with disobeying the order of a superior, behaving in a contemptuous manner to a superior and with conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline.
He intends to plead guilty.
Cpl. Ngoviky served in Afghanistan for seven months from Aug. 2005 until Feb. 2006. In that time, he was a passenger in a convoy headed from Kabul to Kandahar that came under rocket attack. Cpl Ngoviky was also the victim of violence by a fellow soldier. On Dec. 25, 2005, Master Cpl. T.J. Mills and Ngoviky got into a fight that ended with Mills pointing and cocking a weapon at him.
When Mills was found guilty in Sept. 2008 and handed a suspended sentence, the military judge Lieut.-Col. J. G. Perron told him "your actions have also affected the psychological well-being of the victim."
But Ngoviky's father said all of this could have been avoided had the military been more understanding of his son's condition.
"As a father, it's very upsetting," he said. "I have no trust whatsoever in the military. I could scream. I could yell. I could swear."
"If he has an attitude problem, they created it," he said.
Court martial convener Simone Morrisey said being that so many soldiers have served over seas, post-traumatic stress is "one of the defences they come back with."
She said Cpl. Ngoviky has been assigned defence council and the court martial is open to the public.
doug.hempstead@sunmedia.ca
