A good Army officer goes bad? Or slides back to his old ways? Either way, it's sad

Capt.
Charles Eadie, a previously enlisted soldier who graduated near the top of his West
Point class in 2007, and then went
to the London School of Economics, was busted and charged with selling
anabolic steroids to an
undercover police officer in Columbus, Georgia. He has pleaded not guilty.     

Here is
an interview he did about his career when he was deployed to
Afghanistan in 2010. In it, he mentions that he had a "troubled past" and
actually was on probation when he first tried to enlist. "There is definitely a
darker path that I could have taken in life," he says, somewhat ominously.

You BD
hardasses probably all want to throw the book at him. Maybe I am just a softie
but I wonder if he was trying to feel the thrill of living close to the edge, a
bit of the adrenaline of combat.