Ex Army, 25B. I think the hardest part for me was my 2nd deployment, in an infantry battalion in 3ID, to Ramadi. About a year before, at the beginning of my 4th year in service, my PSG (a 25U Ranger out of 75th Ranger Regt who knew as much about 25-series MOS's as your standard 11B) was briefing our BN CO on our equipment and capabilities in preparation to go to NTC in Fort Irwin, and just getting it all wrong. Luckily he had asked me to attend. I tried playing nice, with things such as "Maybe I didn't word that correctly, what I meant to say in my report was... " and "My apologies sergeant, what I meant was... ". After about the 12th time, I asked "Sergeant, did you even read my report?". Literally, every single figure and bullet point he was presenting was incorrect. The CO, who was on the list to get full bird at any moment, looked at him (an E7) and said "Well, there Sergeant First Class, looks like I have the wrong person running the show. Who should be training who?". I was a specialist, and the Automations team lead in the BN S6, with 2 guys (another E4 25B who had reclassed to that MOS very recently from a Tanker, and an E2 25U fresh out of AIT) under me. From that day forward (circa February 2010), he was trying to get me demoted. He passed 12 field grade Article 15's to the CO's desk for various nit-pick reasons, and all were thrown out, then he tried Company grade, and thrown out, and Summarized, and thrown out. The leadership knew who did the real work in the unit, and who did all the training for my section, and the others in S6 who wanted to cross-train. In fact, when I went to the promotion board, my only question was "Why do you want to be an NCO?". I answered, and they told me to leave.
When we deployed in July of 2010, he had me working from 0700 until 0200 every day. My only good side was he gave me off from 1100 to 1300 to go to the gym and eat lunch. Between mid October and the beginning of December, I had overslept and missed work call formation 4 times. My latest was 11 minutes (which means I arrived at 0701, because he said if you arrive less than 10 minutes prior, you're late). After the 4th counseling statement, he presented my BN CO with Field grade Article 15, which was thrown out. He then took it to the company CO, who accepted it. Our CO was a new CPT who had been an S3 officer before getting his second bar. Before the hearing, he called me into his office and had my PSG and PL wait outside. He asked me what was going on, and I explained that I had worked 17 hours a day, 7 days a week for the past 6 months, and I overslept 4 times. He said he was going to have the hearing and throw it out, but I asked him not to. I said I was ETS'ing within the year, and that if this is what it would take to get him off my back and satisfy his need for revenge, I was glad to do it. There was no way I was staying in. Then we went outside, where we were called in and had the formal hearing. I was asked if I had anything to say, and I didn't. I had 14 days restriction to base (which meant no more convoys to Turiq, TQ, or Fallujah to solve their problems), 14 days extra duty from 1800 to 2200. This was a blessing, because it was ordered that I was off duty after extra duty, which meant I got 4 extra hours off. And a loss of 1 rank, but no forfeiture of pay. We went outside and my PSG ripped off my E4 rank and slapped on my E3 rank, and said "I've been waiting a long time to do this. It's just a shame I'm having to put something else back on here instead of leaving you a fuzzy". I just smiled and said "Karma's a bitch, s'arnt". I later come to find out he had removed the firing pin from my weapon for that statement. I didn't know until the end of deployment questionnaire, when he asked "Have you ever had your firing pin or bolt confiscated", and I said no, and he said "Uh, yeah you did".
Fast forward 8 months. He applies to be a warrant officer in my field, 255A, and gets accepted. He leaves for training. Shortly thereafter, I'm outprocessing the Army, and it comes to my commander's attention that I'm signed for 18 missing radios. I asked why I would sign for radios, that was the 25U's department. DA2062's were produced, signed for receipt in my name, but it wasn't my signature. Turns out, the old PSG had forged my signature (rather badly) so that he could outprocess for training. I produced every document I could find that I had signed, including my contract from MEPS, recruiter documents, other 2062's, and counseling statements. They looked at them and it was nowhere near the same. PSG was recalled, and demoted to E4, and had to pay for the radios. The day I finaled out, me and a couple friends went to a bar, where we ran into him outside. I said "Oh, hello Mr. <Last Name>! How was Warrant Officer School?" and he said "No, it's just <Last Name>, Private First Class". "Nah, I'm not a PFC anymore, I'm a civilian, Specialist. Remember what I said? Karma's a bitch"
Never saw him again after that
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accidentally said I deployed July 2015
