As most of you that follow my blog know, I am a veteran Navy wife, Senior retired in 2009 after serving for 20 years. The ERB situation with our current active duty military is something that is near and dear to my heart.
Our guys and girls are getting shafted by the very same country they fought to defend. If it wasn’t for people like them we probably wouldn’t have the freedoms we enjoy today.Some 2900 + sailors with 5-15 years are being involuntarily separated. Why? Because of poor management by the Navy. They allowed the rates these guys and girls worked in to become overmanned. It wasn’t the sailors fault. What the Navy should do, is evaluate every rate not just certain ones. And evaluate these folks with high tenure who havent advanced in their selected rate.
There was a petition on whitehouse.gov. Most active duty were nervous about signing it because of repercussions from their commands, one case is a navy wife made comments to CNN and a few days later her husband was contacted by his command. So obviously the message is getting out.
We didn’t get the 25,000 signatures needed for the whitehouse.gov petition. Therefore Sailors against ERB has started a new petition.. You can sign and read about it at:
http://www.change.org/petitions/president-of-the-united-states-department-of-the-navy-us-congress-stop-the-discriminatory-erb-process-conducted-by-the-us-navy
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