Steve Burling who attended high school with Bales in Ohio said he remembered
him as a friendly young man, who was talented academically and athletically.
“He was one of the better football players and captain and always a heavy
lifter in the weight room, very outgoing, funny, big smile,” Mr Burling
said.
The US Army said Bales had spent a total of 37 months in three seperate
deployments in Iraq between 2003 and 2010 before starting a fourth tour of
duty in Afghanistan.
Bales’ civilian attorney, John Henry Browne, said Bales had experienced
violence firsthand during that period.
“He saw people killed literally standing right next to him and there was
an incident right before these allegations where one of his fellow soldiers
was mortally wounded.”
The soldier stands suspected of perhaps the worst single atrocity committed by
a US serviceman in the last decade of foreign wars.
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