Fleet Marine Life #138 – Part Two Return of the Bullshit
Part two of the true story of the only decent SNCO I ever had…
Of course, the civilian courts didn’t buy the domestic abuse allegations, and dropped the case because in the civilian world you actually need evidence to try somebody. But not so in the military, the allegations of domestic abuse caused NCIS to launch a crusade against my SSgt, and when they couldn’t find any evidence, the started digging through all of his military paperwork trying to find something to charge him with. Do you know what they found? They found that he looks even more squared away on paper than he does in real life!
Meanwhile, the command forbade him to return to his shop and stuck him in the company office, and then called the shop down to the company commander’s office so the Captain and 1stSgt could personally tell us not to go anywhere near SSgt.
When he was put on legal hold, he was on his terminal leave, now he’s more than three weeks AFTER his actual EAS date, and he’s still not even listed as a suspect in his own case because they can’t find anything on him, but they’re not willing to admit that maybe they were wrong. Great use of taxpayer dollars don’t you think?
As if all of this wasn’t enough to go through, while he was on legal hold he received a negative counseling because he was found on the third deck of the barracks. The counseling was conducted to instruct him “not to commit suicide”. Because everyone knows that the best way to convince someone that you have just taken pretty much everything from, to not commit suicide, is to make him do negative paperwork regarding it. Gotta love the infinite wisdom of the marine corps’ senior leadership.
So as of today my SSgt is still sitting around on legal hold. This just goes to show that, no matter what your rank is, how long you’ve been in, what you may have accomplished, or how many times the command has promised to have your back, the moment that the rubber meets the road, and something happens that could reflect negatively upon the marine corps, you will be thrown to the wolves.
Safety and Peace
Realizing that your command is lying when their lips move since 1775
make a new comic, damn it!
Never, EVER trust your chain of command. Period. From the Commanding General to the squad leader, don’t trust them. I assumed they were all back stabbers, waiting to pounce and get me busted down at the nearest opportunity. I never made many friends, but I never got in trouble. The only person I trusted was my wife.