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Pot Stirrer's command Issues an Apology
In response to your concern, I would truly like to say this is not the command climate that we pursue nor agree with. We respect and honor all military personnel with whom we serve that has stood and swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. We are all brothers and sisters in arms. We believe that all are equal and all share the burden of defending the freedoms of the citizens of this country. The families of the defenders of freedom serve and sacrifice their lives in some ways more than those of us who wear the uniform.
In response to this blog and this Soldier. You are correct about wives not being under the prevue of the command. I assure you that the Soldier in question is. There has been a face to face counseling session with this Soldier as to the responsibilities of the freedoms and rights that our Constitution has so given to this Nation.
We apologize for the actions that one person has brought it up on himself, and we want to ensure you that this is NOT the actions or the climate of this command.
Very Respectfully, ALLAN-JAY S. CATINDIG CAPTAIN, SIGNAL CORPS Company Commander, U.S. Army Recruiting Company Burlington, VT 100 Dorset Street, Suite 20A South Burlington, VT 05403 office: (802) 865-8392 fax: (802) 865-8394 cell: (888) 236-1236 email: allen.catindig@usarec.army.mil AKO: allan.catindig@us.army.mil
V/R John P. Mainville SFC, USA Station Commander Burlington Recruiting Station 1944 Williston Road Ste 3 South Burlington, VT 05403 Cell: 1-877-205-7875 Text: 1-518-330-7116 Office: 802-862-6393 Fax: 802-862-6294 john.mainville@usarec.army.mil
Re: Pot Stirrer's command Issues an Apology
I changed my name
Yeah I'm in this corner. If this would've happened to someone on the nest the contactors would be crazy cakes & people would defend the op.
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Absolutely. What they're doing is far worse than what she did. She never tracked down an individual in order to harass them.
(popping in from the MB woodwork - hi!)
Totally agree with all of this. He demands a reprimand, but not punishment, for being stupid enough to look down on NG and for being idiotic enough to publicly support his wife's inflammatory blog post rather than advise her to show better sense and diplomacy.
She should be told by her H that she embarrassed him and needs to learn some humility and perspective (that's unlikely, as it seems he needs the same lesson). Lacking him telling her that, the next best thing is for other people she knows in real life to tell her the same thing. But her job doesn't need to be threatened, she doesn't deserve personal threats and vicious name calling ("ignorant" and "naive" are appropriate names to call her, though). She DOES deserve to be criticized by anyone who read her blog and was offended by it, and if someone chooses to dislike her in real life for that, I'd say that's also very much deserved!
Agreed.
I want to know what she will call the NG member, or Reservist that covers her H's azz the next time he is deployed.
Also she was talking about being a direct reflection of your H (W in some cases), and because she is a direct reflection I really hope she was in the counciling meeting. She needs to be put in her place.
If it was just her, yeah calling his command is maybe too far. Calling her job is totally too far (unless she worked in some capacity for the NG)
Eta: I quoted the wrong post. I was trying to talk about getting his command involved, obviously
Etaa please excuse my syntax in this post, it's horrible! But I've been quoted so I can't go fix it.
I'm so ashamed
I changed my name
I did notice that. She said she only spoke when spoken to when meeting her h's Higher ups. But then she blasted NG wives on a blog post. Hypocritical.
I totally agree with you on that point and that's essentially what the command said in it's statement.
I don't think she should be fired from her job, nor do I think it's even appropriate to bring her job into this fiasco.
The scary part about bringing her job into this? One...people were easily able to locate her and her place of employment and two...she's most likely an at will employ and essentially could be fired for anything.
Things like this is why I keep my mouth shut and any criticisms off the internet.