{"id":21884,"date":"2011-01-14T11:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21884"},"modified":"2011-01-14T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T15:48:04","slug":"ivaw-and-jeff-hanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21884","title":{"rendered":"IVAW and Jeff Hanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Hanks went AWOL last year when he was scheduled to deploy. His excuse is that he needs treatment for his PTSD. To prove that he didn’t go AWOL as a publicity stunt, he turned himself in after his unit deployed, on Veterans’ Day at a press conference<\/a>. Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n

Well, of course, since it conveniently segues with IVAW’s Operation Recovery program which claims that wounded troops are being re-deployed while they’re still being treated, IVAW took up Hanks’ cause. <\/p>\n

Here’s video of someone (I think it’s Jason Hurd but who can tell with all of that fur) delivering an Article 138 complaint to the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division on Hanks’ behalf.<\/p>\n

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For those of you who are wondering what an Article 138 is, it’s a complaint from a servicemember against his commander, because a service member thinks he or she is being mistreated. From the Navy’s IG website<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Any member of the Armed Forces who believes he\/she has been wronged by his Commanding Officer must seek redress with the Commanding Officer personally. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What the above paragraph doesn’t say is that some random, unclean hippie off of the street can just walk into a brigade headquarters and file an Article 138 complaint on behalf of some member of the military. And I’m pretty sure that’s what the young staff sergeant in the video is thinking.<\/p>\n

That Navy website also says;<\/p>\n

Who should I contact to obtain more information about Article 138 procedures? <\/p>\n

Your legal officer or command Staff Judge Advocate.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that it doesn’t say “Ask any random, unclean, errant hippie off of the street”. The last word in the above quote is “personally”. The last time I checked, some unclean pot-smoking hippie handing a random staff sergeant a sheaf of papers isn’t “personally” between Hanks and his commander.<\/p>\n

So I guess this is just more ineffective theater on the part of IVAW in what could be a laudable and effective campaign if they kept words like “AWOL” out of it. How can we take IVAW seriously if they’re going to make the same empty gestures that they always make?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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