Posted on Jul 27, 2018
Are there steps/procedure in attempting to retrieve stolen items from barracks?
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While on leave an NCO cut the tape on the door to my barracks room, allowing another soldier into the room. That soldier lived in my room for a little over a week while I was on leave. Upon my return, several personal items were missing, boxes & bags had been gone through and trash on the floor. Some of which have family/sentimental value and cannot be replaced or compensated for. My leadership says I can press charges on the NCO who illegally cut the tape on my door. As a private trying to grow successfully in my career, I am very uncomfortable pressing charges on an NCO. Are there other steps I can take to track down the soldier who was put into my room and attempt to retrieve my items? Or maybe a department that provides assistance with something like this?
(This message was forwarded from my son)
(This message was forwarded from my son)
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You should most definitely press charges on that NCO. First, it is the only way to ensure something happens to get your stuff back. Second, do you really want to come up in the military with superiors who believe that they can do whatever they want without consequence. There was a line, your NCO crossed it, he needs to be punished for it.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
SFC Marc W. see, I think this is something that young or new soldiers don't quite understand. Good leadership will always want bad leadership dealt with. Good leaders don't want those types in positions of leadership or power.
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lock you shit if you don't have a high dollar value sheet with the items listed on it and your senior NCO didn't inventory it and has a copy on hand you are shit out of luck. But soldiers don't like to do extra paperwork to save their asses. Lesson Learned
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Kari Hazeltine
It was locked. He does have a high dollar value sheet and is told he will be compensated for any items on that sheet that are missing. He was more concerned with tracking down items that have no value to anyone other than him, such as old letters, old family pictures, his grandfathers military photos, patches & medals. These items were in a small safe that was taken from the room. I understand it's life and just sucks sometimes but he was reaching out only to find out if there may be avenues available to him that he is unaware of.
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