Have you seen THIS? Our good friend fellow Marine, Phat Joe, sent it in:
In legal papers filed Monday, the [Sgt Meyer] claims that BAE Systems, where he worked earlier this year, retaliated against him after he raised objections about BAE’s alleged decision to sell high-tech sniper scopes to the Pakistani military. He says his supervisor at BAE effectively blocked his hiring by another defense contractor by making the claims about drinking and his mental condition.
BAE might have a bit of damage control to do.
BAE will lose the public PR campaign, but not gracefully. BAE could use one of its rented congresscritters to amend the next Defense bill to strip Meyer of the MOH. Meyer will have a harder fight to keep from being used as a poster child for the Progressive drive to prove servicemembers are misguided dupes of chickenhawk corporatists.
Seriously??? They are questioning HIS intergrity??
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the repeated risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as a member of Marine Embedded Training Team 2-8, Regional Corps Advisory Command 3-7, in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, on 8 September 2009. When the forward element of his combat team began to be hit by intense fire from roughly 50 Taliban insurgents dug-in and concealed on the slopes above Ganjgal village, Corporal Meyer mounted a gun-truck, enlisted a fellow Marine to drive, and raced to attack the ambushers and aid the trapped Marines and Afghan soldiers. During a six hour fire fight, Corporal Meyer single-handedly turned the tide of the battle, saved 36 Marines and soldiers and recovered the bodies of his fallen brothers. Four separate times he fought the kilometer up into the heart of a deadly U-shaped ambush. During the fight he killed at least eight Taliban, personally evacuated 12 friendly wounded, and provided cover for another 24 Marines and soldiers to escape likely death at the hands of a numerically superior and determined foe. On his first foray his lone vehicle drew machine gun, mortar, rocket grenade and small arms fire while he rescued five wounded soldiers. His second attack disrupted the enemy’s ambush and he evacuated four more wounded Marines. Switching to another gun-truck because his was too damaged they again sped in for a third time, and as turret gunner killed several Taliban attackers at point blank range and suppressed enemy fire so 24 Marines and soldiers could break-out. Despite being wounded, he made a fourth attack with three others to search for missing team members. Nearly surrounded and under heavy fire he dismounted the vehicle and searched house to house to recover the bodies of his fallen team members. By his extraordinary heroism, presence of mind amidst chaos and death, and unselfish devotion to his comrades in the face of great danger, Corporal Meyer reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
For the record.
I saw this on another mil forum, it's disheartening. Parallels were being drawn to Smedly Butler and Eisenhower trying and failing to put a stop to the Military-Industrial Complex. It will be interesting to see how this turns out
DaveO is right on the mark in my humble opinion…
I foresee BAE cutting a nice check pretty quickly – some pretty fundamental legal issues were tossed out the window when his BAE supervisor started talking "outside the chain of command" so to speak. I'd go back after them with a pretty considerable counter-suit; it's not hard to quantify what affect this national article could have on his hiring prospects going forward… $$$millions. That being said, as a former G1/LegalO for way too many years, I'd say he's going to be OK.
BTW, what Marine doesn't drink heavily and isn't slightly mentally unstable??? Those were the traits that ensured I was promoted and retained over so many years… :-)
Get some.
Yeppir…
As an Army Grunt that taught Marines at Huckleberry Mountain Training Camp in Mt. Raineir National Park how to cross mountain rivers, rapelling, tactical mountain movement, map reading and how to survive a mountain blizzard I can state that Marines truly have a few screws loose, it goes with the territory…
And drinking too much ???
The morons at BAE should spend some time at a VA hospital…
Thanks Marines, and quite showing off BTW…
Thunder
delete "I’d go back after them with a pretty considerable counter-suit;" from above! typing too fast…
I've been searching for the actual lawsuit, but have not yet found it.
If anyone has a link to the actual legal complaint, please send it to me via the "e-mail Tom" button at the bottom of the home page of my Web site. Thank you.
What were the BAE guys thinking? Are they americans or not? Are any of their sons in the military? Is there not enough money to be made among our allies (UK, Australia, Israel, etc) that they have to go to Pakistan where common sense would tell anyone mil tech will end up in the hands of those shooting at us? I don't care if the US governement okayed the deal; it was still a bad idea.
I think it's more along the line of what was one guy thinking, rather then BAE thinking. And what is really disturbing is that the manager in this firestorm is ex-military, according to one report I read. Don't know how accurate that is…