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Do you think Mental Health Problems can be described in this way?
Take an otherwise healthy human and have them experience very abnormal things compared to the society they are in.
They can not find things to relate to. Their experience is so far different that all their realities have shifted.
If that same person was in a society where everyone in that society experienced the same things then they would no longer have mental health problems.
So here is a case study for a human experiencing abnormal experiences.
When you read these reports notice a few things.
Ask yourself what is a SAM and what is a FFG and what happens to the kid when they both will meet? Have you ever heard of such a thing? It is one of the rarest experiences to date. Statically as rare as finding a quarter someone in the great divide of nothingness
I asked the VA and BCNR to help me out and was turning over the documents that you are about to read. I needed some love and assistance to get me back to speed. But denied denied denied..non of these report stated anything suspicious that would lead a kid to the homeless shelter confused
1983 “New Recruiting Program”
“Non-Prior Service”
“Correcting Certain Misconceptions”
“Less of a Naval Person”
“Naval Reserve has no previous experience”
“doubt a rating could be earned through only part time On-Job-Training”
“Reserves should seek a higher quality recruit”
“must retain skills over longer
periods with less practice and supervision”
“Test manning active Navy Destroyers”
“Admittingly, there are some potential problems”
“Reserve Forces will continue to be fully exploited”
“Navy Inspector General report documenting systemic weakness in the training and administration”
“ready to mobilize on short notice”
“be maintained at the highest state of readiness.”
““TELL THE TRUTH”
““dangerous manning situation exists”
““Even very talented individuals cannot be expected to
effectively perform”
“limited amount of annual, complete
team training”
“Department of Defense conducted
a Total Force Policy review in which they admitted shipboard duty
may not be a satisfactory application of the reserve force
Structure”
“crew receives neither the quantity nor the quality of training”
“SLEEP PROBLEMS, HEALTH SYMPTOMS, AND TENSION/ANXIETY AND FATIGUE DURING VARTINE CRUISING IN A MODERATELY HIGH
HEAT/HUMIDITY NAVAL ENVIRONMENT”
“Junior enlisted personnel (El to E3) reported
greater subjective tension/anxiety”
“hostile environment”
“1998, the third phase will address reserve component access to VA benefits and programs.
Recognizing the increased reliance on the reserve components in recent years, Cohen said, "We must ensure their medical readiness to achieve a truly integrated total force. I am pleased that this summit is a partnership effort - with the DoD, the private sector and VA all working together."
(from a DoD release)
Contact Author”
-----------
1983 May
ALL HANDS
Rear Admiral Robert F. Dunn talks about reserves today
A new recruiting program could ease some of the present problems for the Naval Reserve “We have the Sea and Air Mariner Program in the works now for recruiting non-prior service people.” Admiral Dunn
Part of the settling in process with his new job involves Admiral Dunn’s carrying the word to the active Navy. He’s intent on correcting certain misconceptions: “Just because an individual wears the uniform only one weekend a month or during two weeks in the summer and somebody else wears it all year, doesn’t mean that the first one is less of a sailor or less of a naval person.”
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1983
CNA Center Naval Analyses
Naval Selected Reserve:A Total Force Perspective
Deborah Clay Mendez
“Sea and Air Mariners are non-prior service recruits who take the Recruit Training Course(Bootcamp) and directly into the SELRES without service in the active force.”
“The restriction of promotion for unrated SAM’s may not be accurate, but the Naval Reserve has no previous experience with non-prior service,non-A-School personnel, and there is some doubt a rating could be earned through only part time On-Job-Training,”
--------
1985
Dwight F. Scott
Full text of "Development of a new screening table for Sea/Air Mariners."
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
Monterey, California
4. Reserves should seek a higher quality recruit than the
active forces because reserve personnel train only
part— time and must retain skills over longer
periods with less practice and supervision. CRef. 303
This legislation will enable the Services to plan for broader application of the “Total Force Policy” in satisfying contemporary national defense requirements. The “Total Force Policy” dictates that all available forces—U.S. Active Forces, U.S. Guard and Reserve Forces, and the forces of our allies—would be considered in determining the Defense needs to most future contingencies. In carrying out these missions, the volunteer potential of the Reserve Forces will continue to be fully exploited.
3. To increase integration of Reserve Forces in active forces missions
B. Test manning active Navy Destroyers with a mix of 80 percent active personnel and 20 percent reservists in comparison with 100% active manned ships.”
“Admittingly, there are some potential problems involved in the 80/20 concept”
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1995 5040.1
indiana.edu/virtual_disk_library/index.cgi/3715654/FID863/SURFACE/50401.PDF
Department of Navy
Subject: Reserve Administration and Training Evaluation (RATE) Program
4. Background
“The Rate Program was initiated in response to Navy Inspector General report documenting systemic weakness in the training and administration of SELRES Personnel assigned to NRF Ships
1998 5040.1A
indiana.edu/virtual_disk_library/index.cgi/3715654/FID863/SURFACE/50401A.PDF
Department of Navy
Subject: Reserve Administration and Training Evaluation (RATE) Program
4. Background
“The Rate Program was initiated in response to Navy Inspector General report documenting systemic weakness in the training and administration of SELRES Personnel assigned to NRF Ships
SELRES Personnel assigned must be ready to mobilize on short notice and, as a result, be maintained at the highest state of readiness.”
-------------------------
1997
“Naval War College
Newport R.I.”
“TELL THE TRUTH: CAN THE OPERATIONAL COMMANDER RELY ON THE ADVERTISED CAPABILITIES OF THE ... LCDR THOMAS M. ROSSI, USN.”
“ABSTRACT
Over 31% of the United States Navy's combatant surface
escort force are guided missile frigates (FFGs) assigned to the
Naval Reserve Force (NRF).”
“dangerous manning situation exists which will not be
reflected in any readiness report and could result in the
operational failure of the ship over time.”
“As Admiral Boorda and many other leaders continue to stress,
Reservists are critical to the success of our Total Force team.
However, few civilian men and
women work in a shipboard damage control environment, conduct corrective maintenance on intricate fire control systems, serve
as a member of a weapon system's firing team, or, for that
matter, drive a ship in their normal, daily environment.”
“Even very talented individuals cannot be expected to
effectively perform in some of the NRF FFG's more sophisticated
ratings when exposed to the limited amount of annual, complete
team training NRF Selres personnel receive.”
“The skills required to professionally and safely operate a
ship at sea may not be equivalent to the skills demanded of a
medical surgeon, but there are similar consequences to be paid if
either professional attempts to work in his or her trade without
adequate training. In 1990, the Department of Defense conducted
a Total Force Policy review in which they admitted shipboard duty
may not be a satisfactory application of the reserve force
Structure.”
“Conclusion”
“I maintain based on 27 months in command of one, that the NRF FFGs are not, and should not be expected to be, fully combat ready for immediate deployment into a high threat area, under the present “system”. reservists (SELRES) portion of the crew receives neither the quantity nor the quality of training received by their active duty counterparts, neither as part of the ‘team” nore as individual crewmembers.”
-----------------
---------------------------------
Naval Health Research Center.
SLEEP PROBLEMS, HEALTH SYMPTOMS, AND TENSION/ANXIETY AND FATIGUE DURING VARTINE CRUISING IN A MODERATELY HIGH
HEAT/HUMIDITY NAVAL ENVIRONMENT
Approach
A cross-sectional sample of officers' and enlisted personnel aboard nine
U.S. .Navy combatant ships vas surveyed. Ship ypes included tvo Guided Missile
Cruisers (CGs), five Minesweepers (MSOs), one Guided Missile Frigate (FFG),
and one Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD).
Tension/Anxiety
Overall, tension/anxiety levels of the cross-sectional sample appeared to
be within normal limits. However, Junior enlisted personnel (El to E3) reported
greater subjective tension/anxiety than higher paygrade personnel.
This result may have been a reflection of the relative inexperience of these
sailors in extended at-sea operations and the potentially hostile environment.
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 1997
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said Nov. 18 the summit will address the full spectrum of health care issues, entitlements and legislative policies affecting the readiness of reserve components in the post-Cold War world.
In Phase I, slated for late November in Washington, summit participants will evaluate prevailing laws and policy relating to reserve component health care.
Participants will identify legislative and policy changes necessary to ensure members of the reserve components receive health care benefits that are consistent with the increased reliance on today's reserve force.
"We have a vested interest in the health readiness of our reserve component personnel," said Dr. Ed Martin, acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.
Beginning late December, the second phase of the summit will address incapacitation and disability issues. In mid-January 1998, the third phase will address reserve component access to VA benefits and programs.
Recognizing the increased reliance on the reserve components in recent years, Cohen said, "We must ensure their medical readiness to achieve a truly integrated total force. I am pleased that this summit is a partnership effort - with the DoD, the private sector and VA all working together."
(from a DoD release)
Contact Author
1997 (DOD) Department of Defense Report To Congress
Means of Improving the Provision of
Uniform and Consistent Medical and Dental Care to
Members of the Reserve Components
INTRODUCTION
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/Sec746_111099.html[11/23/2014 9:55:26 PM]
During the Cold War, a reservist incurred limited exposure to potential hazards during periods of duty (active or inactive duty). The focus for the RC was on training for mobilization. The Reserve components consisted principally of a force whose use upon mobilization would be to provide augmentation and replacement manpower for the Active components. In contrast, the focus of the Active components was on fulfilling operational requirements.Since the end of the Cold War, and with the drawdown of the force, the role of the Reserve components has changed, and the use of the RCs in the performance of operational missions has increased dramatically. Reservists are now providing daily support to military operations around the world. This increased use results in a significant increase in exposure to injury, illness, disease, and death in the line of duty. As shown in Exhibit 1, Reserve component man-day contributions to Total Force missions have increased ten-fold from a 1989 benchmark. At the same time, the overall strength of the Reserve forces has decreased by nearly one quarter. As a result, the average Reservist’s exposure to injury and illness has increased significantly.
Evolution of the Military's Current Active-Reserve Force Mix
U.S. Navy (USN) The Navy Reserve has evolved over time from a semi-autonomous strategic reserve in terms of platforms and trained individuals to what is today a strategic and operational reserve that is a mix of individuals and unit types that either complement or mirror elements of the AC. In the former case, the RC provides “skills and expertise to complete the Total Force inventory of capabilities”1 and in the latter case, the RC provides “skills and expertise that match the AC to offer greater capacity at lower carrying cost.”2 This evolution can be traced back to the aftermath of WW II, when the Navy had a large number of ships and aircraft and trained the Navy Reserve to staff them in anticipation of a need for a large force to wage war with the Warsaw Pact. By the end of the Cold War, this scenario had become obsolete. In the case of ships, as the size of the fleet declined, the Navy moved to a policy of fully manning all its ships so that these ships would not require RC augmentation in the event of war. In addition, the problems of maintaining ships in standby status with part-time personnel and the impracticality of rotating part-time personnel to deployed units made employing reservists, other than full-time support (FTS) personnel, to operate ships unworkable, and the Navy Reserve Fleet (NRF) disappeared.
To meet the demands for experienced petty officers as the fleet expanded toward its goal of 600 ships, the Navy relied, in part, on voluntary recalls designed to draw prior-service sailors into the Reserves and then back onto active duty. To backfill the petty officers who went to the fleet, the Navy initiated the Sea/Air Mariner (SAM) program to attract new recruits to the Naval Reserve by offering tuition assistance. However, this program proved unsuccessful because its benefits and 6-year obligation compared unfavorably with Army and Air Force programs.66
As I sit up here soul in my mind
I look for error and injustice
what does that mean ?
What does that define?
Lost it all but found this emptiness just keeps up all the time
what is this life?
I was in a psych hospital the month following discharge 26 years of age.
And there was no Error or Injustice the BCNR said. There was no Discharge Physical done at all. That certainly was not an error. I was in a reserve enlistment obligated for 8 years of hell 5 years assigned to guided missile frigate running a test. A Test is an experiment in this sense. My 20's became a big complete mess as if outer-space had to intercept as I blanked out and fell asleep like rip van winkle only to awake in a gay mans house my friend sexually assuallting me as I shrank no where to run. I turned a claim into the va and the BCNR at this time please send some relief. A homeless housing voucher at the very least. I was in my 30s/
They denied denied denied. The worst thing they said was I was in a reserve enlistment. All bets off. The bait and switch of the century. Would the founding fathers be proud of such a move?
I asked her to stay.
My fiancé I lost in the Navy at 22 assigned to the ship. But to sick to even get off of it. I tried to transfer into the army but MEPS would decline.
Permanent profile deemed me
and my heart declined...
this is America right?
it gets crazier still
I was put back on the same ship for 1 more year no clearance for duty ever performed as if this was the norm
Again suicide hospital I will see you soon. There was not enough doctors in the navy or in the entire country to actually care about you. Getting crushed at sea on the ship taking my destiny.
A meritorious bootcamp graduate recruit soon to be honorably discharge and destitute.
So they gave me that housing voucher at last
The BVA Federal Judge Saved my ASS from being touched by that man my landlord again
But Oakland Regional VA was investigated by congresss in 2015 for negligence not yet seen
The local Non Profit put me in a Amicus Monk Vrs Shulkin 2018 you can read. The Argument is that Veterans suffer especially if they have a real not frivolous claim and their homeless housing voucher might just be life saving...
but that 4 year run just waiting bitting my nails
I learned a few things
I learned I was in the weirdest navy stories ever told.
A SAM enlisted assigned to a FFG is like a needle in a haystack if the haystack was 1 million miles deep wide old bold.
Find another SAM assigned to a FFG in the history of the Navy. I beg.
But still this is not abnmoral or an error or injustice this assignment that left me confused and listless drifting in and out of reality
Sent to sea and back to land so often over nearly 5 years, on part time orders, that is could destroy anyones dreams
But again that was not abnormal or an error or an injustice no once can see
As I am getting literally sexually assaulted trying to buy time waiting for that magical homeless housing voucher I had heard about at some point in time
But the gremlin came back/
The gremlin came back/
That reserve enlistment was got in you trouble you see is the one thing they will never recognize as a veteran for veteran purposes you see double jeopardy the ultimate burden shift in the land of the free
when an 18 year old can sign a 8 year military federal obligation that is worth nothing at the end of the road all the abuse all the stress and the BCNR denies and the va says you can appeal this denial, or go to your congress man, because sorry your reserve enlistment did not get enough
active duty days. You flash back to signing that thing. You were only 18.
You don't want to be skeptical. Errors are made. They need more information to decide if this affected you in any major way.
Suicide hosptal.
Attempt to get out of the Navy to join the ARMY MEPS DISQUALIFED 1998 MEDICALLY they recognized. But that was not good enough in anyones eyes As if the Navy and Army have different medical requirements under DOD. But that is not right. In fact that is wrong. It was the basic recruit physical everyone takes to join. I just could not pass it a second time around to transfer off that ship into a better place possibly the army who cared I hoped and wished for I found.
Nope that was not enough 1 year later Major Depression bi polar 1999 San Diego Balboa MTF someone noted and never followed up
Being in the Navy reserve was like being the worst color or religion or sex or other class that no one wants to get criticized for being.
But this was a contract I could to run. And then when you get to to the VA they say hey. You don't qualify for nothing just to double down and freak you out as if you are that kid again on the ship losing his future for another amount of years.
First it was the 8 to the honorable let me go
The it was the next 10 trying to forget and recover from the first 8
but cracked I had become and ended up in some guys house getting sexually assaulted just to find shelter still unable to contemplate those first 8
You hope that money they someone contemplated they saved by under manning your shp and replacing a full time guy with you
I hope they saved enough money to start another humanitarian mission somewhere else...and send untold millions to other countries around the globe but if are in the reserve assigned to a ship here you might as well be the most dirtiest thing to neglect
I had nothing to go on for some 15 years. Maybe that was how the navy ran? Stick a kid on a ship that will neber be a veteran for veteran purposes no matter how long he is assigned just as long as all his orders are broken up individualized over the course of years tearing up his life as if never was to start
Imagine a ROTC or Cadette student, would they ever graduate, if there school plan was this, get a few weeks of school in in there school building all safe and sound to study and concentrate but every couple of weeks, be put on a ship, full of full time guys, not messin around, on the smallest ship you have so the ocean feels like eating you up again and again, and put you in the toughest job on the ship, turned upside down shaken side to side made to get panicked worked far beyond anything that had experienced ever before in their life for days and even weeks or a month then let go, you have to be back in school like you had not just experienced anything at all …
Until I found online everything that made me awake.
FIOA email got me that Navy Army Transfer physical back that I had never seen. I took it into the VSO an Air Force Recuiter at one time who informed me that I was 3p should of never been put back on the ship let alone let to stay in past that point without even a medical check up to clear
But that never happened and there is no error or injustice here
you shall be in a psych hosptial 1 month after discharge as if this is how America works
You join the military and try to forget. You don't even get a discharge physical and that is not deemed innapropraite. If they did not care and teach me to care about myself after getting the beating of a lifetime out at sea then it would actually make sense I blank out and all things fall apart endlessly
I have been engaged 3 times don't you see
1 time in the Navy
1 time 10 years later and she dumped me when my mom passed away...again. in the streets
1 more time 10 years after that and she was in jail for her 3rd DUI when I got the call my dad I did not know well who I met after I was out of the Navy had just passed away in Vegas alone and it hit me again...the girl took me to deep waters and I lost it all again..
My dad was a Vietnam vet.
Army Infantry 11 LIB 66-68 the hottest years of almost any conflict to date far surpassing anything since and he survived but could not get me past childhood before he would be living under bridges in the great divide I found out later in life...so one to another he lost it all his family his child un diagnosed everything from a conflict that had him hand to hand with guerrilla warfare in the Jungle man…
He was the son of Albert Hassay who had him during his Navy Service still enlsited deployed with no email to say hello my man before he was 18 and drafted 1966 to the Vietnam war
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HASSAY, MICHAEL ALBERT
PVT US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 01/02/1948
DATE OF DEATH: 10/19/2017
BURIED AT: SECTION AH SITE 19
SOUTHERN NEVADA VETERANS MEMORIAL CEMETERY
1900 VETERANS MEMORIAL DR BOULDER CITY, NV 89005
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HASSAY, ALBERT J
S1 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 1927
DATE OF DEATH: 1998
BURIED AT:
SAINT JOSEPH CEMETERY
NANTICOKE, PA 18634
I could go on and on...but this song made me think..and I had to write ... wishing everyone a ver good night...
Take an otherwise healthy human and have them experience very abnormal things compared to the society they are in.
They can not find things to relate to. Their experience is so far different that all their realities have shifted.
If that same person was in a society where everyone in that society experienced the same things then they would no longer have mental health problems.
So here is a case study for a human experiencing abnormal experiences.
When you read these reports notice a few things.
Ask yourself what is a SAM and what is a FFG and what happens to the kid when they both will meet? Have you ever heard of such a thing? It is one of the rarest experiences to date. Statically as rare as finding a quarter someone in the great divide of nothingness
I asked the VA and BCNR to help me out and was turning over the documents that you are about to read. I needed some love and assistance to get me back to speed. But denied denied denied..non of these report stated anything suspicious that would lead a kid to the homeless shelter confused
1983 “New Recruiting Program”
“Non-Prior Service”
“Correcting Certain Misconceptions”
“Less of a Naval Person”
“Naval Reserve has no previous experience”
“doubt a rating could be earned through only part time On-Job-Training”
“Reserves should seek a higher quality recruit”
“must retain skills over longer
periods with less practice and supervision”
“Test manning active Navy Destroyers”
“Admittingly, there are some potential problems”
“Reserve Forces will continue to be fully exploited”
“Navy Inspector General report documenting systemic weakness in the training and administration”
“ready to mobilize on short notice”
“be maintained at the highest state of readiness.”
““TELL THE TRUTH”
““dangerous manning situation exists”
““Even very talented individuals cannot be expected to
effectively perform”
“limited amount of annual, complete
team training”
“Department of Defense conducted
a Total Force Policy review in which they admitted shipboard duty
may not be a satisfactory application of the reserve force
Structure”
“crew receives neither the quantity nor the quality of training”
“SLEEP PROBLEMS, HEALTH SYMPTOMS, AND TENSION/ANXIETY AND FATIGUE DURING VARTINE CRUISING IN A MODERATELY HIGH
HEAT/HUMIDITY NAVAL ENVIRONMENT”
“Junior enlisted personnel (El to E3) reported
greater subjective tension/anxiety”
“hostile environment”
“1998, the third phase will address reserve component access to VA benefits and programs.
Recognizing the increased reliance on the reserve components in recent years, Cohen said, "We must ensure their medical readiness to achieve a truly integrated total force. I am pleased that this summit is a partnership effort - with the DoD, the private sector and VA all working together."
(from a DoD release)
Contact Author”
-----------
1983 May
ALL HANDS
Rear Admiral Robert F. Dunn talks about reserves today
A new recruiting program could ease some of the present problems for the Naval Reserve “We have the Sea and Air Mariner Program in the works now for recruiting non-prior service people.” Admiral Dunn
Part of the settling in process with his new job involves Admiral Dunn’s carrying the word to the active Navy. He’s intent on correcting certain misconceptions: “Just because an individual wears the uniform only one weekend a month or during two weeks in the summer and somebody else wears it all year, doesn’t mean that the first one is less of a sailor or less of a naval person.”
-------------
1983
CNA Center Naval Analyses
Naval Selected Reserve:A Total Force Perspective
Deborah Clay Mendez
“Sea and Air Mariners are non-prior service recruits who take the Recruit Training Course(Bootcamp) and directly into the SELRES without service in the active force.”
“The restriction of promotion for unrated SAM’s may not be accurate, but the Naval Reserve has no previous experience with non-prior service,non-A-School personnel, and there is some doubt a rating could be earned through only part time On-Job-Training,”
--------
1985
Dwight F. Scott
Full text of "Development of a new screening table for Sea/Air Mariners."
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
Monterey, California
4. Reserves should seek a higher quality recruit than the
active forces because reserve personnel train only
part— time and must retain skills over longer
periods with less practice and supervision. CRef. 303
This legislation will enable the Services to plan for broader application of the “Total Force Policy” in satisfying contemporary national defense requirements. The “Total Force Policy” dictates that all available forces—U.S. Active Forces, U.S. Guard and Reserve Forces, and the forces of our allies—would be considered in determining the Defense needs to most future contingencies. In carrying out these missions, the volunteer potential of the Reserve Forces will continue to be fully exploited.
3. To increase integration of Reserve Forces in active forces missions
B. Test manning active Navy Destroyers with a mix of 80 percent active personnel and 20 percent reservists in comparison with 100% active manned ships.”
“Admittingly, there are some potential problems involved in the 80/20 concept”
---------------
1995 5040.1
indiana.edu/virtual_disk_library/index.cgi/3715654/FID863/SURFACE/50401.PDF
Department of Navy
Subject: Reserve Administration and Training Evaluation (RATE) Program
4. Background
“The Rate Program was initiated in response to Navy Inspector General report documenting systemic weakness in the training and administration of SELRES Personnel assigned to NRF Ships
1998 5040.1A
indiana.edu/virtual_disk_library/index.cgi/3715654/FID863/SURFACE/50401A.PDF
Department of Navy
Subject: Reserve Administration and Training Evaluation (RATE) Program
4. Background
“The Rate Program was initiated in response to Navy Inspector General report documenting systemic weakness in the training and administration of SELRES Personnel assigned to NRF Ships
SELRES Personnel assigned must be ready to mobilize on short notice and, as a result, be maintained at the highest state of readiness.”
-------------------------
1997
“Naval War College
Newport R.I.”
“TELL THE TRUTH: CAN THE OPERATIONAL COMMANDER RELY ON THE ADVERTISED CAPABILITIES OF THE ... LCDR THOMAS M. ROSSI, USN.”
“ABSTRACT
Over 31% of the United States Navy's combatant surface
escort force are guided missile frigates (FFGs) assigned to the
Naval Reserve Force (NRF).”
“dangerous manning situation exists which will not be
reflected in any readiness report and could result in the
operational failure of the ship over time.”
“As Admiral Boorda and many other leaders continue to stress,
Reservists are critical to the success of our Total Force team.
However, few civilian men and
women work in a shipboard damage control environment, conduct corrective maintenance on intricate fire control systems, serve
as a member of a weapon system's firing team, or, for that
matter, drive a ship in their normal, daily environment.”
“Even very talented individuals cannot be expected to
effectively perform in some of the NRF FFG's more sophisticated
ratings when exposed to the limited amount of annual, complete
team training NRF Selres personnel receive.”
“The skills required to professionally and safely operate a
ship at sea may not be equivalent to the skills demanded of a
medical surgeon, but there are similar consequences to be paid if
either professional attempts to work in his or her trade without
adequate training. In 1990, the Department of Defense conducted
a Total Force Policy review in which they admitted shipboard duty
may not be a satisfactory application of the reserve force
Structure.”
“Conclusion”
“I maintain based on 27 months in command of one, that the NRF FFGs are not, and should not be expected to be, fully combat ready for immediate deployment into a high threat area, under the present “system”. reservists (SELRES) portion of the crew receives neither the quantity nor the quality of training received by their active duty counterparts, neither as part of the ‘team” nore as individual crewmembers.”
-----------------
---------------------------------
Naval Health Research Center.
SLEEP PROBLEMS, HEALTH SYMPTOMS, AND TENSION/ANXIETY AND FATIGUE DURING VARTINE CRUISING IN A MODERATELY HIGH
HEAT/HUMIDITY NAVAL ENVIRONMENT
Approach
A cross-sectional sample of officers' and enlisted personnel aboard nine
U.S. .Navy combatant ships vas surveyed. Ship ypes included tvo Guided Missile
Cruisers (CGs), five Minesweepers (MSOs), one Guided Missile Frigate (FFG),
and one Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD).
Tension/Anxiety
Overall, tension/anxiety levels of the cross-sectional sample appeared to
be within normal limits. However, Junior enlisted personnel (El to E3) reported
greater subjective tension/anxiety than higher paygrade personnel.
This result may have been a reflection of the relative inexperience of these
sailors in extended at-sea operations and the potentially hostile environment.
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 1997
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said Nov. 18 the summit will address the full spectrum of health care issues, entitlements and legislative policies affecting the readiness of reserve components in the post-Cold War world.
In Phase I, slated for late November in Washington, summit participants will evaluate prevailing laws and policy relating to reserve component health care.
Participants will identify legislative and policy changes necessary to ensure members of the reserve components receive health care benefits that are consistent with the increased reliance on today's reserve force.
"We have a vested interest in the health readiness of our reserve component personnel," said Dr. Ed Martin, acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.
Beginning late December, the second phase of the summit will address incapacitation and disability issues. In mid-January 1998, the third phase will address reserve component access to VA benefits and programs.
Recognizing the increased reliance on the reserve components in recent years, Cohen said, "We must ensure their medical readiness to achieve a truly integrated total force. I am pleased that this summit is a partnership effort - with the DoD, the private sector and VA all working together."
(from a DoD release)
Contact Author
1997 (DOD) Department of Defense Report To Congress
Means of Improving the Provision of
Uniform and Consistent Medical and Dental Care to
Members of the Reserve Components
INTRODUCTION
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/Sec746_111099.html[11/23/2014 9:55:26 PM]
During the Cold War, a reservist incurred limited exposure to potential hazards during periods of duty (active or inactive duty). The focus for the RC was on training for mobilization. The Reserve components consisted principally of a force whose use upon mobilization would be to provide augmentation and replacement manpower for the Active components. In contrast, the focus of the Active components was on fulfilling operational requirements.Since the end of the Cold War, and with the drawdown of the force, the role of the Reserve components has changed, and the use of the RCs in the performance of operational missions has increased dramatically. Reservists are now providing daily support to military operations around the world. This increased use results in a significant increase in exposure to injury, illness, disease, and death in the line of duty. As shown in Exhibit 1, Reserve component man-day contributions to Total Force missions have increased ten-fold from a 1989 benchmark. At the same time, the overall strength of the Reserve forces has decreased by nearly one quarter. As a result, the average Reservist’s exposure to injury and illness has increased significantly.
Evolution of the Military's Current Active-Reserve Force Mix
U.S. Navy (USN) The Navy Reserve has evolved over time from a semi-autonomous strategic reserve in terms of platforms and trained individuals to what is today a strategic and operational reserve that is a mix of individuals and unit types that either complement or mirror elements of the AC. In the former case, the RC provides “skills and expertise to complete the Total Force inventory of capabilities”1 and in the latter case, the RC provides “skills and expertise that match the AC to offer greater capacity at lower carrying cost.”2 This evolution can be traced back to the aftermath of WW II, when the Navy had a large number of ships and aircraft and trained the Navy Reserve to staff them in anticipation of a need for a large force to wage war with the Warsaw Pact. By the end of the Cold War, this scenario had become obsolete. In the case of ships, as the size of the fleet declined, the Navy moved to a policy of fully manning all its ships so that these ships would not require RC augmentation in the event of war. In addition, the problems of maintaining ships in standby status with part-time personnel and the impracticality of rotating part-time personnel to deployed units made employing reservists, other than full-time support (FTS) personnel, to operate ships unworkable, and the Navy Reserve Fleet (NRF) disappeared.
To meet the demands for experienced petty officers as the fleet expanded toward its goal of 600 ships, the Navy relied, in part, on voluntary recalls designed to draw prior-service sailors into the Reserves and then back onto active duty. To backfill the petty officers who went to the fleet, the Navy initiated the Sea/Air Mariner (SAM) program to attract new recruits to the Naval Reserve by offering tuition assistance. However, this program proved unsuccessful because its benefits and 6-year obligation compared unfavorably with Army and Air Force programs.66
As I sit up here soul in my mind
I look for error and injustice
what does that mean ?
What does that define?
Lost it all but found this emptiness just keeps up all the time
what is this life?
I was in a psych hospital the month following discharge 26 years of age.
And there was no Error or Injustice the BCNR said. There was no Discharge Physical done at all. That certainly was not an error. I was in a reserve enlistment obligated for 8 years of hell 5 years assigned to guided missile frigate running a test. A Test is an experiment in this sense. My 20's became a big complete mess as if outer-space had to intercept as I blanked out and fell asleep like rip van winkle only to awake in a gay mans house my friend sexually assuallting me as I shrank no where to run. I turned a claim into the va and the BCNR at this time please send some relief. A homeless housing voucher at the very least. I was in my 30s/
They denied denied denied. The worst thing they said was I was in a reserve enlistment. All bets off. The bait and switch of the century. Would the founding fathers be proud of such a move?
I asked her to stay.
My fiancé I lost in the Navy at 22 assigned to the ship. But to sick to even get off of it. I tried to transfer into the army but MEPS would decline.
Permanent profile deemed me
and my heart declined...
this is America right?
it gets crazier still
I was put back on the same ship for 1 more year no clearance for duty ever performed as if this was the norm
Again suicide hospital I will see you soon. There was not enough doctors in the navy or in the entire country to actually care about you. Getting crushed at sea on the ship taking my destiny.
A meritorious bootcamp graduate recruit soon to be honorably discharge and destitute.
So they gave me that housing voucher at last
The BVA Federal Judge Saved my ASS from being touched by that man my landlord again
But Oakland Regional VA was investigated by congresss in 2015 for negligence not yet seen
The local Non Profit put me in a Amicus Monk Vrs Shulkin 2018 you can read. The Argument is that Veterans suffer especially if they have a real not frivolous claim and their homeless housing voucher might just be life saving...
but that 4 year run just waiting bitting my nails
I learned a few things
I learned I was in the weirdest navy stories ever told.
A SAM enlisted assigned to a FFG is like a needle in a haystack if the haystack was 1 million miles deep wide old bold.
Find another SAM assigned to a FFG in the history of the Navy. I beg.
But still this is not abnmoral or an error or injustice this assignment that left me confused and listless drifting in and out of reality
Sent to sea and back to land so often over nearly 5 years, on part time orders, that is could destroy anyones dreams
But again that was not abnormal or an error or an injustice no once can see
As I am getting literally sexually assaulted trying to buy time waiting for that magical homeless housing voucher I had heard about at some point in time
But the gremlin came back/
The gremlin came back/
That reserve enlistment was got in you trouble you see is the one thing they will never recognize as a veteran for veteran purposes you see double jeopardy the ultimate burden shift in the land of the free
when an 18 year old can sign a 8 year military federal obligation that is worth nothing at the end of the road all the abuse all the stress and the BCNR denies and the va says you can appeal this denial, or go to your congress man, because sorry your reserve enlistment did not get enough
active duty days. You flash back to signing that thing. You were only 18.
You don't want to be skeptical. Errors are made. They need more information to decide if this affected you in any major way.
Suicide hosptal.
Attempt to get out of the Navy to join the ARMY MEPS DISQUALIFED 1998 MEDICALLY they recognized. But that was not good enough in anyones eyes As if the Navy and Army have different medical requirements under DOD. But that is not right. In fact that is wrong. It was the basic recruit physical everyone takes to join. I just could not pass it a second time around to transfer off that ship into a better place possibly the army who cared I hoped and wished for I found.
Nope that was not enough 1 year later Major Depression bi polar 1999 San Diego Balboa MTF someone noted and never followed up
Being in the Navy reserve was like being the worst color or religion or sex or other class that no one wants to get criticized for being.
But this was a contract I could to run. And then when you get to to the VA they say hey. You don't qualify for nothing just to double down and freak you out as if you are that kid again on the ship losing his future for another amount of years.
First it was the 8 to the honorable let me go
The it was the next 10 trying to forget and recover from the first 8
but cracked I had become and ended up in some guys house getting sexually assaulted just to find shelter still unable to contemplate those first 8
You hope that money they someone contemplated they saved by under manning your shp and replacing a full time guy with you
I hope they saved enough money to start another humanitarian mission somewhere else...and send untold millions to other countries around the globe but if are in the reserve assigned to a ship here you might as well be the most dirtiest thing to neglect
I had nothing to go on for some 15 years. Maybe that was how the navy ran? Stick a kid on a ship that will neber be a veteran for veteran purposes no matter how long he is assigned just as long as all his orders are broken up individualized over the course of years tearing up his life as if never was to start
Imagine a ROTC or Cadette student, would they ever graduate, if there school plan was this, get a few weeks of school in in there school building all safe and sound to study and concentrate but every couple of weeks, be put on a ship, full of full time guys, not messin around, on the smallest ship you have so the ocean feels like eating you up again and again, and put you in the toughest job on the ship, turned upside down shaken side to side made to get panicked worked far beyond anything that had experienced ever before in their life for days and even weeks or a month then let go, you have to be back in school like you had not just experienced anything at all …
Until I found online everything that made me awake.
FIOA email got me that Navy Army Transfer physical back that I had never seen. I took it into the VSO an Air Force Recuiter at one time who informed me that I was 3p should of never been put back on the ship let alone let to stay in past that point without even a medical check up to clear
But that never happened and there is no error or injustice here
you shall be in a psych hosptial 1 month after discharge as if this is how America works
You join the military and try to forget. You don't even get a discharge physical and that is not deemed innapropraite. If they did not care and teach me to care about myself after getting the beating of a lifetime out at sea then it would actually make sense I blank out and all things fall apart endlessly
I have been engaged 3 times don't you see
1 time in the Navy
1 time 10 years later and she dumped me when my mom passed away...again. in the streets
1 more time 10 years after that and she was in jail for her 3rd DUI when I got the call my dad I did not know well who I met after I was out of the Navy had just passed away in Vegas alone and it hit me again...the girl took me to deep waters and I lost it all again..
My dad was a Vietnam vet.
Army Infantry 11 LIB 66-68 the hottest years of almost any conflict to date far surpassing anything since and he survived but could not get me past childhood before he would be living under bridges in the great divide I found out later in life...so one to another he lost it all his family his child un diagnosed everything from a conflict that had him hand to hand with guerrilla warfare in the Jungle man…
He was the son of Albert Hassay who had him during his Navy Service still enlsited deployed with no email to say hello my man before he was 18 and drafted 1966 to the Vietnam war
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HASSAY, MICHAEL ALBERT
PVT US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 01/02/1948
DATE OF DEATH: 10/19/2017
BURIED AT: SECTION AH SITE 19
SOUTHERN NEVADA VETERANS MEMORIAL CEMETERY
1900 VETERANS MEMORIAL DR BOULDER CITY, NV 89005
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HASSAY, ALBERT J
S1 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 1927
DATE OF DEATH: 1998
BURIED AT:
SAINT JOSEPH CEMETERY
NANTICOKE, PA 18634
I could go on and on...but this song made me think..and I had to write ... wishing everyone a ver good night...
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