CARLSBAD — Gail Smith remembers her grandson, Chad Oligschlaeger, as a fun-loving jokester with a cheeky smile and strong will who would push himself and others to the limit.
Today, the memories and framed photos of him that grace the living room in her Carlsbad home are all that she has left.
On May 20, Marine Cpl. Oligschlaeger, 21, was found dead in his barracks room at Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California.
Oligschlaeger was a mortar man assigned to the 1st Marine Division, and had recently returned from his second tour of duty in Iraq.
While the death was initially viewed as a suicide, Oligschlaeger's family and friends are not ready to concede that he willingly ended his life. The family will wait for the autopsy report from the Marine Corps, Smith said.
"He suffered from post traumatic stress disorder, and he was struggling with it.
He was on eight different medications. From what we have learned, there was not much medical supervision on how he was to take the medications," Smith said.
"His Marine friends have said that, knowing Chad and having fought by his side, they don't believe he was capable of committing suicide. Our family feels the same way."
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1 comment:
This seems to be the common answer to any questions of the death of our soldiers. More and more families are questioning the deaths of our soldiers. As the Pentagon has lied about everything why should we believe them now. It's that old Boy Who Cried Wolf again. If they had been honest we wouldn't think their lying again.
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