The radicalization of Timothy McVeigh begins early in his history. In 1987, McVeigh began a job working as a security guard at the age of nineteen. He had always had a fascination with guns of all types. This job gave him the opportunity to hone his skills but using the companies firing range as he pleased (Wright, 2008). Prior to obtaining this job, he tried going to business school. He soon discovered that he did not like the school environment and decided to start a different direction. In 1988, he joined the United States Army as a Bradley crewman.
He did a short stent in Saudi Arabia in the first Gulf war as a Bradley crewman. When he returned from his deployment, he volunteered for Army Special Forces Assessment and Selection.…show more content… He then with though several bouts of depression and suicidal ideations (Linder, 2006). McVeigh had planned on being a career soldier in the Army. It had really made an impact on him that he was not able to perform the way he had planned on and blamed the government for the inability to do so. From this point on, he began drifting farther and farther from the social and political norms. He left his father again after two years and began traveling with gun shows across the U.S. to earn money. He stayed with former army buddies while he was on the…show more content… The Trooper noticed his vehicle because he had failed to display a license plate and conducted a traffic stop. McVeigh was discovered to be carrying a concealed weapon at which point he was placed under arrest and transported to the county jail in Perry, Oklahoma (Linder, 2006). No one knew at this time the McVeigh had committed the bombing in Oklahoma City. It wasn’t until police discover parts of the truck in the vicinity of the bombing that they would soon discover that he was behind the
