As many of you already know, I’m supposed to be moving to Fort Hood in two weeks. I say supposed to because things have changed and I might not be moving.

As many of you know, I’ve been having problems with my hip and lower back for well over a year now. I’ve been going to physical therapy and have done a ton of exercises to make it better but nothing has worked. The problem is my joints are very flexible, causing my hip to move when it’s not supposed to. At this point, my physical therapist says it’ll probably heal as I get older and my joints lose some flexibility, but until then I’m shit out of luck.

So after a year of failed treatments, I got sent to another doctor who wanted to give me a permanent profile allowing me to not do certain things that aggravate my hip, mainly lifting and sit-ups. The problem this brings is a no lifting profile means I can’t do something a basic as carrying a ruck sack with the required gear. Because of this, the doctor is required to refer to me to a medical evaluation board which will determine if I can stay in the Army based on this profile.

Here’s where the real issue comes in: my doctors want to complete the MEB here in California instead of wasting the money to move me to Fort Hood when I might not even stay in the Army. Since I already have orders to Fort Hood, I now have to jump through hoop after hoop to get those deleted, with no guarantee that will actually happen. At this point, I’m going everything I need to do to leave, while working on staying because if they decide to make me go, I don’t have a lot of time to prepare a move. That’s all the news that I have. I’ll have a more definitely answer later this week, hopefully.

To make matters worse, it would seem the people who run my office think me and my buddy AK can’t be trusted. Let’s ignore the fact that we have worked there longer than everyone and are the only people in the office who have secret security clearance. Let’s ignore the fact that the Army trusts us enough to be NCOs. Let’s ignore the fact that we know our job better than anyone else in the office. According to them we can’t be trusted. And to prove that they think that, last week they changed the locks and refused to give us keys. Then today we find out we aren’t allowed to stay in the office when there isn’t anyone else there. What the fuck???

Of course, those spineless, two-faced pricks would never admit to not trusting us. Or to the fact that they tried to trade the two of us, the only trained public affairs personnel and NCOs on top of that, for a private who isn’t PA trained and instead is an MP. Would someone please tell me the sense in that???

Honestly, I’ve never been treated so poorly in my entire life. I consider all this a slap in the face. Especially since I’ve never done anything to make myself seem untrustworthy. In fact, the people who are doing this to me and my coworker are the actual untrustworthy ones. They are the ones who just stole equipment from my unit, saying since we are going to turn it in anyway they might as well take it and use it. They can have it, but they should have to sign for it. Not steal it from us.

This is why I’m so against the Army replacing certain military positions with civilians. When my office was run by the military, none of this shit happened. Suddenly the majority of the military element is gone (all that’s left is us peons) and everything has gone to shit. I seriously could go on, but I’ll save that for another post.