During the War on Terror, a particularly loathsome character named Bradley Manning enlisted in the Army. Manning didn’t enlist out of patriotism. Manning was running away from an already troubled life. He was a malcontent. A bad fit to be a soldier. His entire existence, from his mid-teens through his enlistment in the Army, had revolved around “getting back at the man.”
Manning argued with everyone. It didn’t take long before he was sent to the discharge unit to be processed out. It was apparently obvious to everyone that Manning wasn’t fit for soldiering. So what did the Army do with Manning? It rescinded the discharge order and instead sent him to Advanced Individual Training (AIT) to be an intelligence analyst. Manning the malcontent was handed a TS/SCI (Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information) clearance.
Soon, Manning posted…
