I Got Kicked Out the Air Force and Now Their Bosses Are Hiring Me
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Here’s the scoop this started A long while ago but I’ll start in Dec of 2008. I was asked to go to India. I said hell yeah. Well it ended up being Afghanistan. Damn, I […]
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Will you please scan the discharge papers with the Feast of Fun post in them. I have to have it for the archives! Pretty please!
For you love anything. Now this is definitely a shortened version. There are a lot more details that I left out cause it would have made it to long. I’ll work on it between school and moving. I’ll see if I can get the first posting in in the next day or 2.
https://www.feastoffun.com/community/topic/no-change-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-any-time-soon
I looked through my papers again and the FOF pages they printed out were not dark enough to scan so here’s the link to the comments I put up that they got me on. I was sending these posts from Afghanistan as well so I say that was F’d up.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042103295.html
Why do they need gays when they can just recruit more ex-convicts?
Looking at the chart between 2006 and 2007, Looks like the army and the marines were the ones they were talking about the air force didn’t take and felony cases and went down on serious misdemeanors. The army was always notorious for taking in convicts. The army and marine basic training programs are good enough to reform these people. If they can’t survive it in my opinion then they just don’t join.
I hope you get that I was being ironic in my last post, right? LOL
My point was that they are discharging law-abiding, able-bodied soldiers and turning right around and lowering their standards to meet recruitment quotas.
LOL, yeah I am sorry. I do get it now. sometimes it takes me a minute LOL. That is a very good point though. reminds me of the stop loss program they had a while ago. they were hurting so bad that they didn’t let anyone out of the military except the gays. they were still processing DADT discharges
Hehe, no problem. I often say things that sound funny in my brain, but don’t translate well to text.
And thanks for sharing your story. It’s a real slap in the face the way you were treated, but I admire you standing your ground and being unapologetic for who you are. I know the dream is marriage equality but, realistically, if there’s one good thing this administration can do for the gay community is to get rid of such an asinine policy as DADT.
I agree totally, it was a terrible slap in the face. I think my father took it worse than I did though. But things have done a 180 and I know now that I’ll be OK. My personal dream was always the repeal of DADT above Marriage. I still want that. It’s nothing about politics or what’s right or easier. It’s something that my heart wants. I still want marriage to but like I said my heart wants the repeal more.