That did it for me, they put it in my contract with a caveat that I would not qualify for the GI Bill. And then they didn’t pay them off due to a “paperwork error” on the Department of the Army’s side, and there was nothing I could do about it, and nothing my NCOs, officers, or battalion HQ company’s S1 could do other than help me make a “request for correction of military record,” which took over a year to get a response from that basically said, “we can’t find the paperwork you submitted, but that’s not our fault.” At that point the only thing that’s left is to petition a congressman for help, which I did. My congressman took a month and a half to reply saying he couldn’t help me and that I needed to submit a request for correction of military record to DA. The only thing that kept my frustration from being overwhelming at losing over $50K from a breach of contract that you cannot do anything about (cannot sue the military except for specific things), was that I then qualified for the post-9/11 GI Bill and was able to essentially get another $50K worth of college out of the military and finally complete my degree. I don’t consider us even, but what can you do?
You can spread your tale far and wide as part of the counter-recruitment effort.
The US will send you into harm’s way so that industrialist-serving dictatorships stay in power (because US doesn’t actually do humanitarian missions) and then they’ll fuck you over on your contract.
I also know (in some cases, knew) veterans who are missing bits or have their brains too rattled, thanks to IEDs, or are too shell shocked with PTSD to trust they’re outside a hot zone, and the DVA won’t do shit for them, even sometimes at gunpoint.
Then there’s the folks who ended up under an abusive CO hell bent on making their lives living hell, sometimes as a result of refusing a sexual advance. This and sexual assault is routinely covered up with reprisals trickling back down to the victim. One of my contacts just got hip surgery she needed ten years ago as a result of an incident of assault.
Military service in the states is bad news from top to bottom, and the student loan thing is a debt bondage scam.
That did it for me, they put it in my contract with a caveat that I would not qualify for the GI Bill. And then they didn’t pay them off due to a “paperwork error” on the Department of the Army’s side, and there was nothing I could do about it, and nothing my NCOs, officers, or battalion HQ company’s S1 could do other than help me make a “request for correction of military record,” which took over a year to get a response from that basically said, “we can’t find the paperwork you submitted, but that’s not our fault.” At that point the only thing that’s left is to petition a congressman for help, which I did. My congressman took a month and a half to reply saying he couldn’t help me and that I needed to submit a request for correction of military record to DA. The only thing that kept my frustration from being overwhelming at losing over $50K from a breach of contract that you cannot do anything about (cannot sue the military except for specific things), was that I then qualified for the post-9/11 GI Bill and was able to essentially get another $50K worth of college out of the military and finally complete my degree. I don’t consider us even, but what can you do?
「rant」
You can spread your tale far and wide as part of the counter-recruitment effort.
The US will send you into harm’s way so that industrialist-serving dictatorships stay in power (because US doesn’t actually do humanitarian missions) and then they’ll fuck you over on your contract.
I also know (in some cases, knew) veterans who are missing bits or have their brains too rattled, thanks to IEDs, or are too shell shocked with PTSD to trust they’re outside a hot zone, and the DVA won’t do shit for them, even sometimes at gunpoint.
Then there’s the folks who ended up under an abusive CO hell bent on making their lives living hell, sometimes as a result of refusing a sexual advance. This and sexual assault is routinely covered up with reprisals trickling back down to the victim. One of my contacts just got hip surgery she needed ten years ago as a result of an incident of assault.
Military service in the states is bad news from top to bottom, and the student loan thing is a debt bondage scam.
「/rant」
I’d say “are you my dad” but you type too coherently.
They did basically the same thing to him.