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Extraction Summary
5
People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Document Information
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Investigative report / article excerpt (house oversight document)
File Size:
1.33 MB
Summary
This document appears to be an excerpt from a report or article discussing Jared Lee Loughner (likely the Tucson shooter, based on context) and his rejection from the US Army in 2009. It clarifies that he was rejected for admitting to excessive marijuana use rather than failing a drug test, citing his friend Bryce Tierney. The text also includes an anecdote from a journalist comparing Loughner's experience to their own experience gaming the system to join the Air Force.
People (5)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Loughner | Subject |
Individual rejected by the Army, stopped smoking marijuana in 2008
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| Bryce Tierney | Friend |
Old friend of Loughner who witnessed his behavioral changes
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| Unnamed Journalist | Source/Anecdote |
Recounts story of joining the Air Force and lying about drug use
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| Chris Hedges | Writer/Journalist |
Author quoted from TruthDig
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| Recruiter | Military Official |
Recruiter at San Diego office who rejected the journalist
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Army |
Military branch that rejected Loughner
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| Air Force |
Military branch the journalist joined
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| Marines |
Military branch suggested by a recruiter
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| TruthDig |
Publication where Chris Hedges wrote
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| House Oversight Committee |
Source of the document (implied by footer)
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Timeline (3 events)
Unknown
Journalist attempts to join Air Force in San Diego, gets rejected, then joins in Sacramento two weeks later.
San Diego and Sacramento
Locations (2)
| Location | Context |
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Location of a recruitment office
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Location of a recruitment office
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Relationships (1)
described as 'an old friend'
Key Quotes (4)
"He was clean...I saw him after that continuously. He would not do it...After he quit, he was just off the wall."Source
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"He didn' t know that the military has an official maximum of times you can admit to smoking pot."Source
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"You can't have smoked more than five times. Go away, kid. Maybe the Marines will take you."Source
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Quote #3
"Power does not rest with"Source
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Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (1,390 characters)
In October 2008, Loughner told an old friend, Bryce Tierney, that he wasn' t going to smoke marijuana any more. Tierney never saw him smoke pot again, and was surprised at media reports that Loughner was rejected by the Army in 2009 for failing a drug test: "He was clean...I saw him after that continuously. He would not do it...After he quit, he was just off the wall." But Loughner did not fail a drug test that day at the processing station. Rather, he admitted on an application form that he had smoked marijuana "hundreds of times." He didn' t know that the military has an official maximum of times you can admit to smoking pot.
A journalist I know acknowledges that he tried to join the Air Force at the San Diego recruitment office, but, "When the subject of drugs came up, I figured, okay, I have long hair, I look maybe homeless, they're going to know I'm lying if I say I've always been straight. I'll say I've smoked pot seven or eight times--something ridiculously, embarrassingly low. Whatever it was, it was too high. The recruiter said. 'You can't have smoked more than five times. Go away, kid. Maybe the Marines will take you.' Two weeks later I was at the Sacramento recruitment office and I had the 'magic number.' I joined the Air Force. One of the stupider things I've done."
Indeed, Chris Hedges wrote on TruthDig: "Power does not rest with
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