OK - I sent my Command an e-mail explaining what was happeing and what my next steps were.

I am waiting for my appointment with the neurologist. I am sure this is going to be a long, hard, slow battle. But, oh well, if it was easy everyone would do it.

I am going to try to figure out how to put word documents on here so each post is not so long.

I will post the letter (edited with no names) as soon as I figure out how to do that.

It will give you an example. BUT, do not think it is a great or perfect example. Heck, I may have pissed off the whole world with this letter. But, at least it will give you somewhere to start.

Thank you for the e-mails I have received. Very nice. But, you are welcome to post here. No one will know your name.  Read more 

Personality Disorder has been the scapegoat discharge for some time now. This discharge robs soldiers of benefits, help, and a future life in certain occupations. The military has turned their back on soldiers and just to save a few bucks, the military doctors are ruining the future for over 24,000 soldiers. And now they are trying to do the same thing to me. THIS must stop!

ThinkProgress spoke with one of the delegation’s military escorts, Maj. Toby Patterson, who said that he didn’t know who made the bios or why they were created in the first place. He added that his office, the Marine Corps liaison for the U.S. House of Representatives, usually just uses lawmakers’ readily-available bios off of congressionalquarterly.com

I call bullshit. The only way this is true is if Maj. Patterson is admitting things are so out of control in the Green Zone, they can’t even provide reasonable security for a Congressional visit. Or does he expect me to believe anyone can just run around posting flyers and giving them to troops in the Green Zone without notice?

The whole thing stinks of fascism. Plain, ugly, in your face fascism. Unspoken here is that the number of contractors in Iraq exceeds that of the “regular” military. And those people truly answer to no one.  Read more 

Sorry, DefTech, but this is a stupid idea:

“Pentagon records show one-fifth of the Army’s active-duty troops have served multiple tours of war duty while more than 40% haven’t been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan,” reports USA Today.  Read more 

Who’s there?

Domestic applications/copycats are interesting concepts to contemplate.