Disgusting how soldier with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease treated by Army

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http://www.tennessean.com/iraq/101/archives/04/03/48332780.shtml

He is first receiving a treatment for this disease - but what is disgusting is how the Army used and abused this soldier. They must be damn hungry for bodies. At least they now seem to be trying to make it up. Good luck Sgt. Alford!

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Staff Sgt. Alford's story came into public view last fall when the family disclosed how the Army had treated him. Not knowing that the soldier suffered from CJD, the 5th Special Forces Group returned him home from Iraq with the intention of booting him from the Green Berets.

Over 18 months, Alford had been transformed from someone who had been a model soldier in Afghanistan to the unit's resident foul-up. His superiors berated and demoted him for losing equipment, going AWOL and repeatedly failing to carry out commands.

The soldier, who enjoyed a meteoric rise to staff sergeant early in his career, fell from favor just as quickly. He was demoted in rank and reassigned to trivial duties, with instructions that he carry a pen and pad with him at all times to write down orders.

When his mother and father, John, and the staff sergeant's wife, Amber (also a soldier serving in Iraq), saw him for the first time after he was returned to Fort Campbell, they found him disoriented and very ill. He was taken to several hospitals for tests.

After days of not knowing what had happened to their son and husband, a doctor at the VA Medical Center diagnosed CJD.