August 16th, 2013
FOB Freedom, Fort McCoy, WI
[Note: All patients mentioned here turned out to have no suicidal intent. All are now safe and have had appropriate counseling.]
About 2200 I had updated my briefing slides for the next day’s command brief in the CP tent and headed back to the Aid Station, thinking I would shower and hit the rack. Might even get 6.5 hours of sleep which would be nice. One of my medics told me LTC T (Deputy Brigade Commander or DCO) was looking for me, so I went to his office in the TOC. He was there with COL S (Brigade Commander) and asked me to shut the door.