![]() Where he was located on camp was safe and rather cozy.’ He said, ‘Routh was never near any incoming. They travelled to Camp Fallujah where, according to Pawloski, the extent of their combat experience was ‘getting mortared a couple of times.’ Routh and Pawloski deployed together with CLB 8 in August 2007. I mean, I spent a lot of time with him, he really seemed like a good dude. He said: ‘Eddie was easily pissy, he took everything too personal. There, for the first time, Pawloski noticed a ‘quirk’ in Routh’s character. During his second year of service he was sent to Iraq and later to Haiti to help with the relief effort after the earthquake Promise: Eddie Ray Routh on the day of his graduation in 2006 in San Diego. Now fellow Marines have come forward to speak out against Routh’s family and attorney’s claims that PTSD lay behind the tragedy and that Routh returned from Iraq an Haiti a damaged and changed man. He had already been diagnosed at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital as suffering from PTSD. On 2 February 2013 Routh shot Kyle in the back and head and shot Littlefield multiple times in the chest at Rough Creek shooting range where Kyle had taken Routh in a bid to help the troubled veteran assimilate to civilian life. Routh’s trial starts at 9am tomorrow morning when the former Marine will plead not guilty by reasons of insanity for the murders of Chris Kyle, 38, and friend Chad Littlefield, 35. ![]() It also says that he ‘never left the ship’ in Haiti, where his father says he witnessed appalling scenes in the aftermath of a hurricane, which led to him being traumatized. In an investigation published on the eve of the trial that hangs on establishing Routh’s state of mind, the Foundation has fleshed out its assertion, revealed last week, that Routh was not suffering from PTSD, claiming that Routh did not see combat in Iraq. Rough and tumble: Routh (pictured, right) was known for his short temper but his fellow Marines believed him to be a good man The photographs have come to light as part of a Warfighters Foundation investigation into Routh in which the veterans association argues that Routh did not suffer from PTSD, which will be at the center of his defense.įormer Marines who served alongside Routh, 26, in Camps Fallujah and Balad between 20 and, later during the humanitarian effort in Haiti in 2010 have alleged that he was violent and unpredictable, had no direct combat experience and that, far from fishing bodies out of the ocean as he has claimed, the armorer ‘never left the ship’ in Haiti. And they show a very different side to the man whom, his defence contends, was so traumatised by his ‘combat’ experience that he cannot be held accountable for his actions. The sensational pictures have emerged on the eve of Routh’s trial for the murder of American Sniper, Chris Kyle, 38, and friend Chad Littlefield, 35. ![]() Pictured with his face contorted in rage and arms taut with stress, Eddie Ray Routh, the Marine veteran accused of gunning down American Sniper Chris Kyle aims an AK-47 rifle in never before seen pictures from his time in the military.
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