Posted on Mar 19, 2021
U.S. military grapples with a rising epidemic of sexual assault in its ranks
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My GOD! Really!? The General a Dealing with the same subject matter way back in the 1980s
Why is it that the military seemingly has this problem and other federal agencies do not get this kind of reporting?
Look I can understand, assaults, and MST, and harrasment and someone will even try to get out of the unit by transferring to another branch, as I tried, and was medically disqualified for spine musculoskeletal and psych by MEPS permanant profile and sent back to the ship still under obligation and no check up ever past that point to analyze any of these issues that stopped the transfer, by any leaders that were aware.
Look I dont really blame overworked stressed out sailors on a ship, to really check in, and self identify, and come to my rescue like a dad might if he cared for his son. That is a special place.
But what if this bullying or assault was on a play ground in school? Well usually the teacher would stop it hopefully. And even that might not happen all the time. A real good bully can get away with stuff for a while, as they do not fear much if anything at all.
I think calm minds in a room can analyze facts an see basically if this really happened, or any other circumstances of service are causing reactions and outbursts and odd behavior.
Usually a traumatized person i goi to have odd behavior hands down fact.
You could take your best dog, your most genetically gifted dog, and tie it to a post and whip on it, and guess what will happen to the dog mentally and even physically.
If your sister was taken adantage of what would you do?
Look we always want to go get the bad guy in another country, but well man, we got to analyze people doing harm on others in their own country and military.
It seems men who have survived this type of treatment man on man abused can sympathize with these ladies, and create systems to correct it, from initial entry at MEPS screening, and system beyond this.
Secretary Defense PTSD memos state, and common sense states a service member will look for a unit transfer for no specific reason, beyond hidden assault, abuse etc..as a remedy...
It is encoded in human reality that fight flight or freeze syndrome when someone gets at you, and the specifics of their power over you, and how you will reacte.
So lets say your 18 new and 1 guys notices and you become friends, and one day out of the blue corners you alone in berthing and attempts to get sexual, and you actually say what are you serious, and instantly I know this is not something you want to be around, and flee and the whole ship company in the galley surrounds you, take note, ask you what is going on, and you tell them, as you are dismayed and your engaged to a girl, and feel really caught of guard, and worse, but there are no, therapies or check up, and you go back to business, and within a month, this guy is gone, but you don’t know what happened to him, and then the other guys, he had been friends with, sort of turn their back on you, and they are in your department, and the friction grows, and leads to more issues and threats
The new command master chief shows up a few years after this, and your emotions have been altered, and your fiancé is distant, or infact you are distant and do not write love letters like you used to, you are frozen 22 years of age, it’s not like you can opt out and leave this job at your own free will, and the command master chief asks you a question, something you can not even remember, with other guys around in the BM locker, and what ever you’d said, pissed him off enough to ask you to join him in the forward hole to help him with Mooring lines, a bit odd, but as soon as you got in there, he has smashed on you, and you could do nothing but take it, you are like man what do i do fight back??? No way man i see the Set up, his word against mine...hmmm and you sort of like begg for some relief like asking what you had done ...and well he says he could kick me out of the navy all together ...and with that information when you got back to shore...you instantly go to the Arm recruiter broken like running away from you own home after your dad just beat you for something you had no control over ...you were not feeling well...and the part time back and forth on the ship over those last years had destroyed your personal life to such a point...you were just completely scrambled..and MEPS performs a new recruit physical the one you passed to join the navy...and you get a call months into the process..and the army recruiter says you can not join the army ever and that is permanent for medical...and that was it...and you were no on a planet no one even knew existed...all alone drifting...22 and getting in fights in the street off the ship...could not trust anyone like a part time job...distanced from your whole family...you literally did not know what was happening to you...and if you can really get into a relationship because you felt well you might not be there much longer and be able to be a good part of a relationship....YOu oringally joined the navy to be a great guy..a leader...learn something valuable and by 22 you were empty confused worried and well silent this is the navy...and its not like anyone was like hey man you ok in there like man can i help you??? Nope young silent strong confused hurting dreams burned...i was put back on the ship for 9 more months..no check up ever for anything....i wonder what my mom saw..and my fiance saw?? But I remember i cracked and people ...
1 year later somehow and I am not sure how but I was documented on paper at balboa hospital mtf with bi polar and major depression...and symptoms of i can.not sleep or concentrate...and i had 3 more years in the enlistment...and it’s not like anyone was trying to help
I can not blame the guys on the deck plate.
We were all stressed
But if you underman the active side of the crew and give them a 18 year old e2 apprentice reservist to take one of their billets ..i mean are to blame those guys....is there some historical navy standard where this is normal with a manual on how this is supposed to work??
In bootcamp you are taught that the slower guy should be looked at negatively as he is the reason the whole company will pay in some stress standard more push ups etc etc etc for this 1 guys slower mistake as on the ship the slower guy gets guys injured//but if they handicap even the smartest guy kid in the world and only give him sporadic time on the ship he wont really get to know people...he will always be slower and then that bootcamp crap will come back and he s at risk for harrasment....and worse
And guess what you have to wonder what committee or command would even allow for this to happen...
Regardless a lot of moving parts,,
Honorable discharge with no discharge physical and the best code re1 you can reenlist...but you did not look at that paper till 10 plus years later...you took that paper put it on your car dash when given out the back of the building on the sub base in San Diego...and drove away..26....no education ...sad confused young...and still thinking you could do something you get a job..it last like 1 year and your are fired in sales at a internet company selling internet over the phone...
In that time frame...only 3 months after discharge you are in a homeless broke psych hospital..in San Diego sports arena area...diagnosed with more depression and medicated..only 3 months after discharge..as if you were medically cool..and the infact would re-enlist you...i wonder what it takes for someone to notice you are well not well???
A few years later not a big brother to anyone..my younger brother moved on..wife good job...house
I was 5150 for edgin on my arm in this psych ward askin for help and my medications....
I think we should all be able to talk about this stuff and get it out and not drink it away...
what someone does when they are young handicapped by being undertrained, no real experience, and targeted due my inexperience as a reserve enlisted assigned to a active duty ship.
Just like in bootcamp where we learn that the slower guy
Why is it that the military seemingly has this problem and other federal agencies do not get this kind of reporting?
Look I can understand, assaults, and MST, and harrasment and someone will even try to get out of the unit by transferring to another branch, as I tried, and was medically disqualified for spine musculoskeletal and psych by MEPS permanant profile and sent back to the ship still under obligation and no check up ever past that point to analyze any of these issues that stopped the transfer, by any leaders that were aware.
Look I dont really blame overworked stressed out sailors on a ship, to really check in, and self identify, and come to my rescue like a dad might if he cared for his son. That is a special place.
But what if this bullying or assault was on a play ground in school? Well usually the teacher would stop it hopefully. And even that might not happen all the time. A real good bully can get away with stuff for a while, as they do not fear much if anything at all.
I think calm minds in a room can analyze facts an see basically if this really happened, or any other circumstances of service are causing reactions and outbursts and odd behavior.
Usually a traumatized person i goi to have odd behavior hands down fact.
You could take your best dog, your most genetically gifted dog, and tie it to a post and whip on it, and guess what will happen to the dog mentally and even physically.
If your sister was taken adantage of what would you do?
Look we always want to go get the bad guy in another country, but well man, we got to analyze people doing harm on others in their own country and military.
It seems men who have survived this type of treatment man on man abused can sympathize with these ladies, and create systems to correct it, from initial entry at MEPS screening, and system beyond this.
Secretary Defense PTSD memos state, and common sense states a service member will look for a unit transfer for no specific reason, beyond hidden assault, abuse etc..as a remedy...
It is encoded in human reality that fight flight or freeze syndrome when someone gets at you, and the specifics of their power over you, and how you will reacte.
So lets say your 18 new and 1 guys notices and you become friends, and one day out of the blue corners you alone in berthing and attempts to get sexual, and you actually say what are you serious, and instantly I know this is not something you want to be around, and flee and the whole ship company in the galley surrounds you, take note, ask you what is going on, and you tell them, as you are dismayed and your engaged to a girl, and feel really caught of guard, and worse, but there are no, therapies or check up, and you go back to business, and within a month, this guy is gone, but you don’t know what happened to him, and then the other guys, he had been friends with, sort of turn their back on you, and they are in your department, and the friction grows, and leads to more issues and threats
The new command master chief shows up a few years after this, and your emotions have been altered, and your fiancé is distant, or infact you are distant and do not write love letters like you used to, you are frozen 22 years of age, it’s not like you can opt out and leave this job at your own free will, and the command master chief asks you a question, something you can not even remember, with other guys around in the BM locker, and what ever you’d said, pissed him off enough to ask you to join him in the forward hole to help him with Mooring lines, a bit odd, but as soon as you got in there, he has smashed on you, and you could do nothing but take it, you are like man what do i do fight back??? No way man i see the Set up, his word against mine...hmmm and you sort of like begg for some relief like asking what you had done ...and well he says he could kick me out of the navy all together ...and with that information when you got back to shore...you instantly go to the Arm recruiter broken like running away from you own home after your dad just beat you for something you had no control over ...you were not feeling well...and the part time back and forth on the ship over those last years had destroyed your personal life to such a point...you were just completely scrambled..and MEPS performs a new recruit physical the one you passed to join the navy...and you get a call months into the process..and the army recruiter says you can not join the army ever and that is permanent for medical...and that was it...and you were no on a planet no one even knew existed...all alone drifting...22 and getting in fights in the street off the ship...could not trust anyone like a part time job...distanced from your whole family...you literally did not know what was happening to you...and if you can really get into a relationship because you felt well you might not be there much longer and be able to be a good part of a relationship....YOu oringally joined the navy to be a great guy..a leader...learn something valuable and by 22 you were empty confused worried and well silent this is the navy...and its not like anyone was like hey man you ok in there like man can i help you??? Nope young silent strong confused hurting dreams burned...i was put back on the ship for 9 more months..no check up ever for anything....i wonder what my mom saw..and my fiance saw?? But I remember i cracked and people ...
1 year later somehow and I am not sure how but I was documented on paper at balboa hospital mtf with bi polar and major depression...and symptoms of i can.not sleep or concentrate...and i had 3 more years in the enlistment...and it’s not like anyone was trying to help
I can not blame the guys on the deck plate.
We were all stressed
But if you underman the active side of the crew and give them a 18 year old e2 apprentice reservist to take one of their billets ..i mean are to blame those guys....is there some historical navy standard where this is normal with a manual on how this is supposed to work??
In bootcamp you are taught that the slower guy should be looked at negatively as he is the reason the whole company will pay in some stress standard more push ups etc etc etc for this 1 guys slower mistake as on the ship the slower guy gets guys injured//but if they handicap even the smartest guy kid in the world and only give him sporadic time on the ship he wont really get to know people...he will always be slower and then that bootcamp crap will come back and he s at risk for harrasment....and worse
And guess what you have to wonder what committee or command would even allow for this to happen...
Regardless a lot of moving parts,,
Honorable discharge with no discharge physical and the best code re1 you can reenlist...but you did not look at that paper till 10 plus years later...you took that paper put it on your car dash when given out the back of the building on the sub base in San Diego...and drove away..26....no education ...sad confused young...and still thinking you could do something you get a job..it last like 1 year and your are fired in sales at a internet company selling internet over the phone...
In that time frame...only 3 months after discharge you are in a homeless broke psych hospital..in San Diego sports arena area...diagnosed with more depression and medicated..only 3 months after discharge..as if you were medically cool..and the infact would re-enlist you...i wonder what it takes for someone to notice you are well not well???
A few years later not a big brother to anyone..my younger brother moved on..wife good job...house
I was 5150 for edgin on my arm in this psych ward askin for help and my medications....
I think we should all be able to talk about this stuff and get it out and not drink it away...
what someone does when they are young handicapped by being undertrained, no real experience, and targeted due my inexperience as a reserve enlisted assigned to a active duty ship.
Just like in bootcamp where we learn that the slower guy
U.S. military grapples with a rising epidemic of sexual assault in its ranks
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I think you really need to proof your posts before you post them because they rarely make sense.
This has been posted repeatedly and discussed. This isn't anything new. It's been an issue my almost 17 years on active duty - and before that. Female and male victims alike. The military just seems not to want to deal with it.
We have a culture in our society - military and civilian - that constantly wants to put the blame on victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment. "Well what were you wearing?" "Why were you drinking?" "You shouldn't have been walking alone at night." "Are you sure you said no?" "Maybe you're just remembering it differently." "Weren't you dating?" "How could your spouse rape you?" Things like that still persist in our society. Victim blaming doesn't ever help.
The only way we make headway on this issue is taking the decision to prosecute out of the hands of commanders for starters. They seem to rarely make good decisions.
Make sure people understand their rights as a victim - their options. Make sure they truly understand reporting options because I guarantee to this day soldiers don't realize their options.
We will never have 0 reports of sexual assault or harassment. It won't stop. But we can reduce it I believe if we fix this culture that allows predators to remain free and stop punishing victims.
This has been posted repeatedly and discussed. This isn't anything new. It's been an issue my almost 17 years on active duty - and before that. Female and male victims alike. The military just seems not to want to deal with it.
We have a culture in our society - military and civilian - that constantly wants to put the blame on victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment. "Well what were you wearing?" "Why were you drinking?" "You shouldn't have been walking alone at night." "Are you sure you said no?" "Maybe you're just remembering it differently." "Weren't you dating?" "How could your spouse rape you?" Things like that still persist in our society. Victim blaming doesn't ever help.
The only way we make headway on this issue is taking the decision to prosecute out of the hands of commanders for starters. They seem to rarely make good decisions.
Make sure people understand their rights as a victim - their options. Make sure they truly understand reporting options because I guarantee to this day soldiers don't realize their options.
We will never have 0 reports of sexual assault or harassment. It won't stop. But we can reduce it I believe if we fix this culture that allows predators to remain free and stop punishing victims.
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PO3 Aaron Hassay
Kelly
I am on your side and it is if there is some real emotional stuff.
I rarely do editing. I am not a english major.
I look for solutions still.
It is the culture as started even in bootcamp where you basically set it up to attack the slower guy or girl who can not keep up and then back in the barracks that slower person is not going to be brought up to speed or whatever. Some of the bullies are going to take it further.
In high school sports usually this would not happen. If someone could not Keep up the coach would take them to the sideline and give them a good pep talk not to destroy them. And possibly check in and see if this a good time for them to be there.
But in the miliary you signed that contract and well what can I say.
You can simply look at the history of the United States Navy and see that in 1853 still posted in navy web site history .mil, Flogging with the cat 0 9 tails was the punishment on one chap for the whole crew to witness to basically keep the crew in check. And in Congress there was a battle to outlaw it, as some admirals would actually defend it use as necessary to keep discipline.
I think about that and I wonder how we even work today, can even make a ship go, in 2021, when infact 1853 Flogging was outlawed.
Did the worst of worst scenarios happen that all the crews went awol because they were random lunatics who had not idea of the bigger picture and could not self regulate and be part of a team without that threat?
Nope
So I don’t know the exact translation to female on female male on male male on female or female on male assaults sexual or otherwise is to stop, but i think that, it has to do with the fact that there are going to be outliers, possibly lets put a number on it, 1 percent 5 percent somewhere under 10 percent of your population is going to be a predator sexually and persistently.
The victims are going to be in plain site, there emotions blank or scared as a result.
I dont think you can fake that response.
It is hard for someone to fake stuff like that unless they themselves are a fakester prankster sociopathic trying to set someone up with false claims fake tears as they got good at acting in some acting school they were in as a kid.
Lets see how could you see if someone is really traumatized. Their will be disruptions in that persons personal life, home, work, etc..
The person who is faking it if you follow them will basically go back to business as usual as if it never happened.
That is my thought and ready for clarification or further development from others
If you are aware of multiple female or males saying this one person on base is doing this, and they all have similar accounts, and they don’t know each other, then you know you have a real problem and should jump on it.
If alcohol or drugs are involved, and there is a power play dynamic boss worker, or landlord tenant then that is tricky and easy to identify abuse of power.
But again the boss or landlord better be aware that someone might be trying to set them up and don't drink with your subordinate.
Other then that I had a good idea.
Create a group of verified survivors of assault on base, and have them develop a screening process, for new assault cases.
Without a doubt we have enough people who have experienced and survived this on the lower enlisted ranks..and well we know the symptoms...and can see mostly real from fake..and create a process of which to deal with this ...
And embed that group into the chain of command and jag.
What do you think?
I am on your side and it is if there is some real emotional stuff.
I rarely do editing. I am not a english major.
I look for solutions still.
It is the culture as started even in bootcamp where you basically set it up to attack the slower guy or girl who can not keep up and then back in the barracks that slower person is not going to be brought up to speed or whatever. Some of the bullies are going to take it further.
In high school sports usually this would not happen. If someone could not Keep up the coach would take them to the sideline and give them a good pep talk not to destroy them. And possibly check in and see if this a good time for them to be there.
But in the miliary you signed that contract and well what can I say.
You can simply look at the history of the United States Navy and see that in 1853 still posted in navy web site history .mil, Flogging with the cat 0 9 tails was the punishment on one chap for the whole crew to witness to basically keep the crew in check. And in Congress there was a battle to outlaw it, as some admirals would actually defend it use as necessary to keep discipline.
I think about that and I wonder how we even work today, can even make a ship go, in 2021, when infact 1853 Flogging was outlawed.
Did the worst of worst scenarios happen that all the crews went awol because they were random lunatics who had not idea of the bigger picture and could not self regulate and be part of a team without that threat?
Nope
So I don’t know the exact translation to female on female male on male male on female or female on male assaults sexual or otherwise is to stop, but i think that, it has to do with the fact that there are going to be outliers, possibly lets put a number on it, 1 percent 5 percent somewhere under 10 percent of your population is going to be a predator sexually and persistently.
The victims are going to be in plain site, there emotions blank or scared as a result.
I dont think you can fake that response.
It is hard for someone to fake stuff like that unless they themselves are a fakester prankster sociopathic trying to set someone up with false claims fake tears as they got good at acting in some acting school they were in as a kid.
Lets see how could you see if someone is really traumatized. Their will be disruptions in that persons personal life, home, work, etc..
The person who is faking it if you follow them will basically go back to business as usual as if it never happened.
That is my thought and ready for clarification or further development from others
If you are aware of multiple female or males saying this one person on base is doing this, and they all have similar accounts, and they don’t know each other, then you know you have a real problem and should jump on it.
If alcohol or drugs are involved, and there is a power play dynamic boss worker, or landlord tenant then that is tricky and easy to identify abuse of power.
But again the boss or landlord better be aware that someone might be trying to set them up and don't drink with your subordinate.
Other then that I had a good idea.
Create a group of verified survivors of assault on base, and have them develop a screening process, for new assault cases.
Without a doubt we have enough people who have experienced and survived this on the lower enlisted ranks..and well we know the symptoms...and can see mostly real from fake..and create a process of which to deal with this ...
And embed that group into the chain of command and jag.
What do you think?
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
PO3 Aaron Hassay I don't know where you played sports at but that's not the case for many athletes who have toxic coaches. My high school coach definitely was not what you describe.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff Baseball all stars short stop pitcher all the way up to high school...\then switched over to cross country and track in high school... 436 mile 10 min 2 mile .-1630 5k..always successful teams league champions...yes the coach was not always nice man making us run up to 15 miles everyday...fast..in the sun of San Diego...you know we were team..self motivated 5 am wake up calls extra running sometimes n the week end...we were league champs for a reason...hard work no money just pride and liked to burn...yeah we were self motivated did not need to be pushed much but of course given bigger and bigger goals that tested us.and yea some little motivational techniques all of the guys and girls of cross country are usually smart..interested in health...not drugs or alchohol..and looking at a great life and college...on student council etc etc etc all around good upstanding kids..and I was surrounded by them..i was not out smoking weed or getting high or drinking alchohol...just because my dad was missing and yah that would have an affect on any kid....especially the first born son...and I was always trying to protect my family...and due the school moves and different changes as a kid with my mom who had little money..i was not able to focus all the time on school work..but i was smart..and I looked at the yellow pages...in a military town...looking to make some tang of myself...senior year came up quick..and i cant even believe i am typing this at 44...but the navy posted something to the extent be in the navy and go to college at the same exact time!!!!! I was like WTF...and called...and signed even though the recruiter said...its an 8 year enlistment...which seemed like a long time...and by then i wanted a house on the hill kids children wife make my mom proud...career ..you know what I mean??? So in a month of so ...i am in bootcamp...Grinder...and lets just say...i did not need to be motivated...as super patriotic already...and unlike 90% of the other recruits already used to team sports and putting out...except all the other recruits were all regular enlistments usn navy active duty of various commitments and obligations contracts signed...and only 3 me and 2 others had this wierd odd SAM Sea Air Mariner enlistment..representing like 2% of the company..but we were all in boot camp experiencing the same thing...and I won the bootcamp mile against like 9 other combined companies all graduating at the sam time..my company was like wow..we won it..and I actually like shaked the hand crossing the finish..in celebration...of a Navy Seal intoduced as a special guest to watch us during the bootcamp event..
Regardless I graduated meritorious.and only knew about that when they gave it to me ..at graduation..advanced paygrade
So regardless I am flown back to San Diego..my home town..in this reserve enlistment...8 years to go..and college to complete...and become an officer by 22...commissioned...
At my first day in the reserve center..this guy in 15 minutes said we need some guys on the ship..I’m like ok...and for the next 5 years..i was assigned to 2 different guided missle frigates..i had no idea if the whole navy..all 300-400 ships was doing this...assign a e2 reserve enlisted to a ship..but who was i do question anything...i mean they could of assigned me a navy seal unit..for all I knew..and i would of reported for duty..
I was on 1 ship part time for one year the USS Copeland and the crew protected me put me in a job..that was repetitive...and technical..and with some esteem...the quartermasters.the navigation team..using GPS...and charting the course and giving directive to the OOD on the bridge ..and i excelled standing QMOW on UNITAS.
I was also in school doing a full load...And also reading all the technical manuals for the ship qualifications.....the pay and benefits did not affect me yet...but they only pay you for the days you are there and nothing else..and no health care access..but of course you felt the ocean..it is rough out there regardless even for a day..
I met my fiancé at 19 she 18 the cutest little hippie beauty queen into Bjork and emo stuff just like me..and she loved i was in the navy proud clean self esteem on a ship going to college to be an officer...and we were like so close it sort of still makes me remember..
But this is where my life changed and quick...
The ship was decommiosioned during the drawdown..i had just enlisted into the 1990s which i was unaware of the timing...and sold the ship to turkey..i am like ok...?!?!? And i was told to report to a knew ship...the USS COPELAND....and i did..all my friend who protected me and Made me feel safe part time in. Full time job on a ship...on the USS SIDES..all older then me ....were gone...
And I Put a lot of time and effort of self study into that study...to get that knowledge .....and Like losing any friends...and a Ship...you moved on and you get introduced...to the new crew...and they shake you down..what are your qualifications??? I am like i was a QMSA...On the Copeland and they were like we dont need that here...go to deck .....and everyone knows deck is the toughest roughest part of the ship...and i am like ????
Anyways after a few years of this...all I can say is I tried to join the army and had to go through MEPS...and was told on a phone call by the army recruiter i was a permanent medical disqualification...and that was it...and my heart i can not tell you if there is a darker sadder more confused place...and you are now still part of a ship...you tried to leave...i think my life sort of blanks out from there...
My fiance broke up with me..man i was so gone..i did not even reacte...i was gone..i just cried alone in the streets for the next year..and my mom watched this all..i was heartbroken..and those guys in my department all active duty would just never understand or even consider my side...part time is no place to be...i could of read all those manuals alone broke off the ship..like 5 different watch stations...the rate itself very technical the oldest rate...
This is something I think a Navy Seal would be proud of that I survived that ...but i was not well...
I mean you are talking about 3 commands now that know or should of known, I was medically messed up..the army .the navy...and MEPS
I wont try to explain the rest but..you know
I think you read some of my other posts..and i am just looking for friends...like i had on that first ship and in bootcamp..and in high school...
When i was homeless etc well what can i say
I got to the va and they said your enlistment does not qualify for a homeless housing voucher...
A federal amicus Monk Vrs Shulkin 2018, if you google it..and look at the PDF...and use my initials a.h. The non profit legal teams for veterans used my example at the va in Oakland and stated it was unlawful...at the same time Oakland VA 2015 google search shows that the va was reported by OIG as negligent ...in some scandal...i mean one thing to the next...
Those were the last years of my fathers life..i had just met a few years previous as he was discovered a disabled combat vet army 11 LIB...1966-68 ARmy Infantry... and my own battle with the va in Oakland to even get a simple homeless housing voucher...distracted from spending quality time with him stable...and wel RIP dad..you can find him on a National Veteran Web site for burial in North Las Vegas...
Regardless I graduated meritorious.and only knew about that when they gave it to me ..at graduation..advanced paygrade
So regardless I am flown back to San Diego..my home town..in this reserve enlistment...8 years to go..and college to complete...and become an officer by 22...commissioned...
At my first day in the reserve center..this guy in 15 minutes said we need some guys on the ship..I’m like ok...and for the next 5 years..i was assigned to 2 different guided missle frigates..i had no idea if the whole navy..all 300-400 ships was doing this...assign a e2 reserve enlisted to a ship..but who was i do question anything...i mean they could of assigned me a navy seal unit..for all I knew..and i would of reported for duty..
I was on 1 ship part time for one year the USS Copeland and the crew protected me put me in a job..that was repetitive...and technical..and with some esteem...the quartermasters.the navigation team..using GPS...and charting the course and giving directive to the OOD on the bridge ..and i excelled standing QMOW on UNITAS.
I was also in school doing a full load...And also reading all the technical manuals for the ship qualifications.....the pay and benefits did not affect me yet...but they only pay you for the days you are there and nothing else..and no health care access..but of course you felt the ocean..it is rough out there regardless even for a day..
I met my fiancé at 19 she 18 the cutest little hippie beauty queen into Bjork and emo stuff just like me..and she loved i was in the navy proud clean self esteem on a ship going to college to be an officer...and we were like so close it sort of still makes me remember..
But this is where my life changed and quick...
The ship was decommiosioned during the drawdown..i had just enlisted into the 1990s which i was unaware of the timing...and sold the ship to turkey..i am like ok...?!?!? And i was told to report to a knew ship...the USS COPELAND....and i did..all my friend who protected me and Made me feel safe part time in. Full time job on a ship...on the USS SIDES..all older then me ....were gone...
And I Put a lot of time and effort of self study into that study...to get that knowledge .....and Like losing any friends...and a Ship...you moved on and you get introduced...to the new crew...and they shake you down..what are your qualifications??? I am like i was a QMSA...On the Copeland and they were like we dont need that here...go to deck .....and everyone knows deck is the toughest roughest part of the ship...and i am like ????
Anyways after a few years of this...all I can say is I tried to join the army and had to go through MEPS...and was told on a phone call by the army recruiter i was a permanent medical disqualification...and that was it...and my heart i can not tell you if there is a darker sadder more confused place...and you are now still part of a ship...you tried to leave...i think my life sort of blanks out from there...
My fiance broke up with me..man i was so gone..i did not even reacte...i was gone..i just cried alone in the streets for the next year..and my mom watched this all..i was heartbroken..and those guys in my department all active duty would just never understand or even consider my side...part time is no place to be...i could of read all those manuals alone broke off the ship..like 5 different watch stations...the rate itself very technical the oldest rate...
This is something I think a Navy Seal would be proud of that I survived that ...but i was not well...
I mean you are talking about 3 commands now that know or should of known, I was medically messed up..the army .the navy...and MEPS
I wont try to explain the rest but..you know
I think you read some of my other posts..and i am just looking for friends...like i had on that first ship and in bootcamp..and in high school...
When i was homeless etc well what can i say
I got to the va and they said your enlistment does not qualify for a homeless housing voucher...
A federal amicus Monk Vrs Shulkin 2018, if you google it..and look at the PDF...and use my initials a.h. The non profit legal teams for veterans used my example at the va in Oakland and stated it was unlawful...at the same time Oakland VA 2015 google search shows that the va was reported by OIG as negligent ...in some scandal...i mean one thing to the next...
Those were the last years of my fathers life..i had just met a few years previous as he was discovered a disabled combat vet army 11 LIB...1966-68 ARmy Infantry... and my own battle with the va in Oakland to even get a simple homeless housing voucher...distracted from spending quality time with him stable...and wel RIP dad..you can find him on a National Veteran Web site for burial in North Las Vegas...
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