{"id":112286,"date":"2021-04-06T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112286"},"modified":"2021-04-06T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:30:40","slug":"navy-officer-under-scrutiny-for-letter-disparaging-enlisted-sailors-as-deviants-and-perverts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112286","title":{"rendered":"Navy Officer Under Scrutiny for Letter Disparaging Enlisted Sailors as \u2018Deviants\u2019 and \u2018Perverts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/us-navy-logo-331x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/us-navy-logo-331x333.jpg 331w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/us-navy-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/us-navy-logo-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/us-navy-logo.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the truth hurts.<\/p>\n<p>This actually started to go viral over the weekend. Angry Cops did a video on it that&#8217;s definitely worth a watch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EOl2WNSVBpE\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\nNow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2021\/04\/05\/navy-officer-under-scrutiny-letter-disparaging-enlisted-sailors-deviants-and-perverts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military.com is reporting<\/a> on it;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An officer at Yokosuka Naval Base is under investigation for purportedly writing a complaint to the base housing office about the &#8220;deviant nature&#8221; of enlisted sailors who pose a danger to his family.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, allegedly authored by Lt. Nathanael Allison of Naval Hospital Yokosuka, states that living in the Ikego Housing Detachment in an apartment building for enlisted families is &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221; The message, filled with spelling and grammatical errors, condemns enlisted sailors as &#8220;perverts&#8221; and accuses them of egregious behavior such as rape, involvement in drug cartels and attacking each other with hatchets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are often drunk and often hostile sailors hanging around enlisted housing,&#8221; the letter states. &#8220;Housing with enlisted greatly increases the risk to my family. I have a good-looking family, a wife and two daughters ages 3 and 4. They are prime targets to be victims for these enlisted deviant activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to screenshots, the letter was sent Feb. 8 via a Google email account to housing. It began circulating last week on military community Facebook pages, and a YouTube video about the letter has garnered over 300,000 views as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Yokosuka housing office declined Stars and Stripes&#8217; requests for comment. Allison did not respond to attempts to reach him by email.<\/p>\n<p>The base hospital is investigating the letter for the strong remarks and language used, according to a response from Naval Hospital Yokosuka commanding officer Capt. Carolyn Rice posted Sunday by the hospital&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am aware of the recent allegation that a member of our staff sent a letter to the housing office with comments disparaging to enlisted service members,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;We are conducting an internal investigation into the matter and if any allegations are found to be true, we will take appropriate actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Allison&#8217;s command is working with the housing office to confirm the letter&#8217;s authorship, hospital spokeswoman Erika Figueroa told Stars and Stripes in a phone call on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is under investigation, as is any case when someone allegedly acts in a way that is counter to our standards of behavior,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter states that officers are &#8220;more respectable&#8221; than enlisted members and that Allison&#8217;s children should &#8220;only be friends with officers&#8217; children&#8221; and his wife &#8220;only friends with officer wives.&#8221; He also expressed concern that his officer colleagues would not want to visit him in enlisted housing.<\/p>\n<p>The letter struck a nerve in some service members who said in Facebook comments they were disappointed that people in leadership positions may have such low opinions of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Understandably, emotions are high because some extremely offensive things were said,&#8221; military spouse and former Ikego resident Amy Hayes said in a Facebook message to Stars and Stripes on Monday. &#8220;Any trust community members could have possessed for this man to serve hospital patrons without bias has been obliterated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Navy veteran and Ikego resident Amber Borreo said she found the comments about her neighborhood unsettling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always feel safe here,&#8221; she said Monday in a Facebook message to Stars and Stripes. &#8220;It&#8217;s really upsetting, because our community is always really helpful. We have support pages specifically for Ikego, and if anyone needs anything they can make a post, and someone usually helps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ikego is seven miles from Yokosuka and features more than 800 housing units, a fitness center, a swimming pool, tennis courts and a teen center, according to the base&#8217;s website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The lieutenant lists prior Army enlisted service in his CV, so he&#8217;s a subject matter expert on the &#8220;man drugs&#8221; that enlisted men do. The LT&#8217;s wife has now taken responsibility for it, but scuttlebutt is that she&#8217;s covering for the husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the truth hurts. This actually started to go viral over the weekend. Angry Cops did &hellip; <a title=\"Navy Officer Under Scrutiny for Letter Disparaging Enlisted Sailors as \u2018Deviants\u2019 and \u2018Perverts\u2019\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112286\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy Officer Under Scrutiny for Letter Disparaging Enlisted Sailors as \u2018Deviants\u2019 and \u2018Perverts\u2019<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,447,119,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-dick-stepping","category-navy","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112288,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112286\/revisions\/112288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}