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| Army injustice: Thousands of soldiers, veterans slapped with misleading criminal record |
| 2022-10-16 |
| [FOX] A decade after the Army ended a recruiting program embroiled in accusations of fraud and mismanagement, more than 2,400 soldiers who were never charged with wrongdoing are likely shackled by a misleading flag on their criminal records. "We are branded as criminals," Army Capt. Gilberto De Leon told Fox News. "There was times where I broke down on my knees ... My career ruined, about to lose my pension. How am I gonna support my family of eight?" Soldiers and veterans say they’ve lost jobs, been denied bank loans or weapons permits, and suffered other consequences because of an obscure Army process that treats anyone who is merely investigated for wrongdoing as guilty. "I did nothing wrong," said South Carolina Army National Guard Capt. Benjamin Sternemann, who was several years into a career as a police officer when the flag popped up on his background check. "I was never arrested and never charged. And I lost my job anyway." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 True or not, 'Baby Killer' stuck. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-10-16 16:23 |
| #5 Yupp. Always fuck the soldier. Never the suits. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-10-16 14:05 |
| #4 ^ Shortly after the first Gulf War the question of what would be Gulf War Syndrome surfaced. The Army was tasked to investigate. They appointed a board/team to do the work. They did it with Temporary Duty (TDY) assignment. In service terms that meant it had to be done in 180 days. Working backward from day 180 and calculating all the organizing and staffing of the team, collecting data, sending out the preliminary report, getting feedback and then do a second rewrite and staffing with everyone who gets a say as in 'Mother May I', left about 30 days to do actual work. Totally insufficient as it required subsequent follow ups to CYWP. Anyone mindful of the Agent Orange debacle should have known not to do that, but they did. It's the damn bureaucracy of the institution. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-10-16 13:47 |
| #3 ...Well, one can't possibly expect the 0's who approved and oversaw the program to be held responsible now, can you...? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2022-10-16 11:53 |
| #2 I see the military is really working hard on meeting their recruitment goals. But what a sickening feeling, these volunteer soldiers who raised their right arm being betrayed like this. Need any more reasons why this US of A is going to shit? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-10-16 11:25 |
| #1 In the eyes of the Washington establishment, we are all "deplorable" criminals. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-10-16 09:59 |