{"id":26265,"date":"2011-08-21T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26265"},"modified":"2011-08-21T16:37:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T20:37:17","slug":"deaf-man-wants-to-be-commissioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26265","title":{"rendered":"Deaf man wants to be commissioned"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Professor of Military Science of the ROTC detatchment at California State University, Northridge stepped on his dick and allowed deaf man, Keith Nolan, audit Military Science courses. Now Nolan thinks that academic experience should qualify him to be a lieutenant in the Army according to Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Nolan became a top performer in the ROTC program’s Bravo Company at California State University at Northridge, and his instructors were so impressed they let him wear a uniform. He was distraught when he turned it back in and said goodbye to the other cadets in May. He could advance no further under the military’s current policy that requires cadets pass a hearing test to be commissioned by the Army.<\/p>\n

It was a stinging moment that burned in the soul of the bespectacled 29-year-old teacher, who is determined to break that barrier and achieve his lifetime dream of working in military intelligence.<\/p>\n

“All I really want to do is join the Army,” said Nolan, a confident, clean-cut man with a boyish face who signed to an interpreter in an interview at the university’s ROTC office. He was flanked by posters with inspirational messages urging people to join. “I want to do my duty, serve my country and experience that camaraderie, and I can’t, owed to the fact that I’m deaf.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, it’s not hard for him to find a Democrat to help him – Henry “Nostrilitis” Waxman has told the young man that he wants to help him circumvent Army medical standards so he can join the Army. <\/p>\n

Nolan needed someone to sign the drill and ceremony commands so he could function in the formations. I guess no one is willing to point out to him that the Army would have to pay two people for the work one fully functioning person could do so they can provide reasonable accommodations in order for Nolan to serve.<\/p>\n

I guess this is somewhat related to TSO’s post the other day<\/a> related to the midget who couldn’t reach the coffee machine at Starbucks. the Army takes people into the service who they think will be an asset to the mission, not someone they have to make special accommodations for and ends up costing them more money than one person is worth. I understand Nolan’s desire to become a soldier, but who is next? A blind man? <\/p>\n

Nolan says that the military makes accommodations for people who’ve been wounded and severely injured, but he’s overlooking the fact that the military has already trained them as whole people and has invested some money in them before they were injured. They have experience, Nolan doesn’t. He just has the desire – the Army can find a million people like that who would cost them a whole lot less to train. Nolan has proven himself in the classroom, but we all know that ROTC and commissioning is a whole heluva lot more than classroom work.<\/p>\n

And it doesn’t surprise me in the least that Nostrilitis wants to help Nolan join the military. Waxman has no idea what it takes to be a military officer, so why would he care?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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