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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jun 29, 2014 1:36:27 GMT 1
God damn, I hope Obama manages to un-fuck this bullshit. From personal experience, I've dealt with bureaucratic bullshit several times myself. Last time, a freaking General I'm on very good terms with personally took me over to the personnel division to get shit fixed.
Note: I didn't mention the BS to the General myself. He'd overheard several officers and senior NCOs talking about it and decided to take matters into his own hands. Military regs bar me from buying him so much as a drink or anything more than giving him a thank-you letter, but when he retires, I'm buying him a good bottle of whiskey.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jun 29, 2014 2:02:39 GMT 1
I'm glad you had someone on your side when you needed it... it really pisses me off when something that should be an easy fix is dragged out instead of being fixed, causing hardship to the person in question. Nice that the General who helped you was able to do so, and awesome that he took it upon himself to help you without you having to ask for help or even mention it to him yourself. That's the kind of teamwork that should be all around in the military, since being in the military is such a dangerous career to have that everyone in the same military should have each other's backs like that.
I just really hope someone can step in and help the man in that article...
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jun 29, 2014 4:21:58 GMT 1
Well, the reason I noted that I didn't go to the General myself is that I could have been in trouble if I did. Since I'm still in, I have to follow the chain of command (which in the real world isn't what Jayne beats people with til they realize who's in ruttin' command). ETA: The best commanding officers will move heaven and earth for their troops. The current Chief of Staff of the Air Force (the highest General in our branch) once had an airman who got a last-minute court summons while deployed. Then Colonel Walsh used every last bit of influence he could muster to get that Airman back to the US from Korea (considered a deployment as Korea is still technically a warzone) inside of 24 hours once he learned what was going on. And bureaucracy bullshit is extremely common in the military and government. I'm cynical enough to think that it stems from the people in S1/J1 (personnel) don't want to do actual work, but would rather be on Facebook, Youtube, or playing two rounds of golf during their duty hours. And that's not hyperbole, I've literally seen it myself. Now for bullshit of a different sort: seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/06/20/judge-orders-deployed-us-sailor-to-attend-custody-hearing-or-lose-daughter-face-contempt/Bottom line up front: Child Protective Services strips a mother of custody of her child and grants full custody to said child's sailor father (being from Michigan where the case is being handled and being familiar with our courts, the mother would have to be doing tantamount to pimping her own child for that shit to happen) but several years later the biological mother (dad remarried) files suit for custody and the judge for the case mandates the father show up by X date or be charged with Contempt of Court and lose custody of his child. Problem is, dad is a submarine crewman on a patrol deployment and cannot leave his ship. Despite this, the judge held firm on her ruling. It doesn't say in that link, but recently, the judge granted a motion to allow the father to return from his patrol so he can be in court. Also note, the judge wouldn't allow him to attend via Skype or teleconference. The ONLY reason why the judge backed off is because a shitload of people in the public, military, and media raised unholy hell over the bullshit. ETA: as a further legal technicality, the judge was in violation of the Soldiers and Sailors act which is a Federal law that is in place to prevent said bullshit from happening.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Jun 29, 2014 7:46:23 GMT 1
Heard about the guy on the submarine. Hadn't heard the resolution. Interesting.
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Post by jklinders on Jun 29, 2014 11:08:26 GMT 1
I wouldn't be surprised if the judge was both a man hater and had an axe to grind with the military. Sometimes even top professionals overreach their authority whena personal grudge steps in.
Someone should review her behavior in this. Being a judge does not give the right to break the law yourself.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jun 29, 2014 12:26:36 GMT 1
That just sucks... I hope things work out for him too - especially if the child was taken away from her birth mother by Protective Services for a good reason, why the hell would they then turn around and dump the poor thing back into a bad situation?
And if it is indeed a personal thing on the judge's part, then she should not be a judge at all. Allowing a child to potentially suffer just so you can make the child's father jump through flaming hoops in court unnecessarily is really petty and stupid.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jun 29, 2014 14:18:50 GMT 1
The judge in question is well-known as a hardcore feminist who goes out of her way to stick it to men in cases like this. One case that comes to mind is a woman who divorced a man five years before said case, had a child years after the divorce, loses her job, sues her ex-husband for child support (no children were born during the marriage as the husband was for all intents and purposes sterile), and this judge actually awarded the woman the child support despite all the evidence proving the child was by a different man (plaintiff and defendant were both white and the child was mulatto). Took the ex-husband years to get the ruling overturned and he wound up bankrupt and lost his small business as a mechanic due to all the court and attorney fees.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jun 29, 2014 16:17:04 GMT 1
Wow... that's just plain rotten. I wish this man and his innocent child the best of luck...
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Post by jklinders on Jun 29, 2014 16:22:12 GMT 1
Read up on a bit of her case history. Looks sketchy, but then again so do some of the sources I got her history from. looks like the serviceman is gonna get screwed no matter what though.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jul 21, 2014 1:07:22 GMT 1
Was going to drop this in the Darwin thread, but the stupidity didn't remove him from the gene pool. Courtesy of the UK: www.tickld.com/pic/t/917306
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jul 21, 2014 1:10:13 GMT 1
Was going to drop this in the Darwin thread, but the stupidity didn't remove him from the gene pool. Courtesy of the UK: www.tickld.com/pic/t/917306Oh, damn, that's horrifying... *shudders in disgust*
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Post by jklinders on Jul 21, 2014 1:22:28 GMT 1
Why......?
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Sept 13, 2014 12:31:00 GMT 1
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Sept 13, 2014 15:43:57 GMT 1
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Hey Cali! Still got that disk with SHODAN loaded on it?
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Post by Cali on Sept 14, 2014 4:24:59 GMT 1
I'll get right onto B&Eing her home next time she's away or on vacation. I will then proceed to go to work on the SIM units on all floors. Can I borrow your M&P with AP ammo if she happens to have Cyborg ninjas guarding her house?
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