At the Wounded Warrior BN
This was emailed to me by AJ Jan 2012.
Hello,
I have spent 5 years in the marines. I was injured in 2009 and have been stuck at the wounded warrior BN ever since. I have a long list of horror stories from how the BN staff consists of reservist fleet dodgers, guys who have been in for 10-15 years and never deployed. Yet, they are the senior NCOs in charge of the men coming home with all sorts of horrific injuries forcing men without limbs to stand information, guys with brain injurys to stand 24 hour duty, and injured married marines to move into the barracks away from their wives and children because they have difficulty making it to mandatory formations.
I have tales about marines receiving NJPs for not wearing their cammies that they cannot fit over their prosthesis or guys, whose injuries make it impossible to wear boots, being forced to wear their uniform and sneakers like a 1st phase recruit. Wounded marines are forced to participate in a PT program called the warrior athlete reconditioning program. This kind of foolish typical marine corps behavior borders on being an out right atrocity. It must be stopped and it will take the voices of the disappointed and disfranchised marines out there to bring this to public light. I have two years of these sorts of events to tell.
I honestly gave up. When you get injured, taken out of your unit, and placed in the vacuum that is the PEB med board process for years, like most guys in there have, you lose your fight a little bit. I actually had my orders cut today. However the HQ of the MC recorded my home of record in the wrong state so TMO can only ship my wife and I half way home. I’ll have to pick up the rest of the tab. Truthfully, it’s worth today being my last day. Oh and they made me get a haircut……. the first days just last. I’m getting fucked and cutting my hair lol.
Would love to know where this guy is today. While it’s easy to say from the outside to “just” get your home of record fixed, anyone on the inside knows there’s no sweeter day than being free.
One of my marines was on terminal but the Bn CO didn’t know the paperwork was in his inbox. It was only a delay of a couple days, but still completely wrong. When his team leader put the bug in my ear to speak up at the Bn Formation to the LtCol my company was so fucking pissed, and I (like a dumb sgt) got mad at his team leader for taking advantage of the fact that I’m an idiot, but when I spoke to him on the phone a couple days later and he talked about just being able to drive home anyway he liked – NC to TX – with no time restrictions, I was so glad he was free.
They still play fuck fuck games in Wounded Warriors? That’s seriously as low as it gets. I agree that these sorts of things need to be brought into the public eye, the marine corps has demonstrated time and time again that the only way it will change its ways is if you bruise it’s reputation and thereby, it’s ego. I would love to hear whatever stories you have to tell.
Safety and Peace