The last 24 hours have been awful!
I stand watch in a space called combat with a bunch of officers. It is the blue lit space that you see in the movies with all the radar screens. My job is to click on the air contacts on the screen, and pass the information to the various watch stations through out combat. Well, yesterday evening at about 8:30pm I was on watch. My superior called over for some information:
“RSC- Air check print track 2344″
I responded “Air-RSC Track 2344 strength 2″
She then said “RSC-AIR you have to speak up”
This happened several times before I realized that my microphone was not working.
This time she said “RSC-Air check print track 80165″
I took my headset off because I was frustrated with it.
I shouted “AIR-RSC TRACK 80165 STRENGTH 1!”
She said “You have to speak into the headset”
I responded “I HAVE BEEN, THE HEAD SET IS BROKEN, I HAVE HAD IT 1 INCH AWAY FROM MY FACE!”
I didn’t realize that the Captain was standing right behind me. He yelled over to my department head “Hey CSO, Fix your RSC.”
So first, CSO politely corrects me. Then about 10 minutes later Master Chief (my most senior enlisted authority) calls me to his office and proceeds to cuss me out for about 20 minutes. He told me “don’t go back on watch tonight, get your head strait” So I went and worked out to cool off then I went to bed. At about 10:30 I got woke up and told to get into my Dress Blue uniform. I already knew what this meant. The captain was pissed and had set a vendetta against me. He took me to Captain’s Mast at 11pm last night. He charged me with article 86, disrespecting a superior commissioned officer.
He put me on restriction for 45 days, 45 days extra duty, half months pay times 2, and suspended bus. That is the same punishment they give for getting a DUI. That is the same punishment they give for breaking liberty policies in foreign ports. It’s bullshit and the most ridiculous mast case that I have heard of. I will be restricted to the ship and cannot leave; I also have to work even longer hours. I will still be on restriction for my birthday. I could try to appeal it but then they would demote me. All I wanted to do was to get out of here without getting in any serious trouble. I never thought I would get screwed for doing my job, and that is all that I was doing. I didn’t cuss at her. I didn’t say anything derogative at all. She and the Captain took me “speaking up” as “disrespect.” Fuck the Navy!
That’s how you drive! From now on, THAT’S how you drive!
dangit jonny if you pull your wiener out in public one more time i swear to the heavens ill cut it off
Damn it, Cody, now you’ve infected our beloved WB! with you semen….seamen.
Dude, I would appeal the shit out of that. Don’t you have MEO or something. You really can’t get in any more trouble for appealing something like this and if it went exactly as you explained I would think you have a case. It just seems like they piled way to much shit on you for something so simple.
Do whatever you feel safe doing, but I fought my chain of command every chance I got. Good luck dude, see you in Florida.
welcome to urf
You don’t think the flew 90 billion light years to start a fight.
You know what the difference is between you and me? I make this look good!
About the “Tyrone” comment, you’re probably right. You don’t want to be a white guy on a biased ship. Especially this one… Home sweet hell. There’s a lot of injustices that go on unchecked in this place. I can name several instances where officers tore up the town and it got swept under. I can name an incident right now where someone was assaulted, racially explicit remarks were made while he was on the bus.. Pending, but rumor is they tried to sweep that one under too. Perpetrator just happens NOT to be white. A certain Senior Chief thought that if he could muster up a simple “Apology”, everything would be fine and dandy. Mind you, we had a guy go to Captains Mast and get put on restriction for saying “Wigger” to a guy walking down the pier with his pants around his ass. On top of that, it was all second hand info that got the guy in trouble, the “he said, she said” thing. Regardless, let’s see if this guy gets off with a slap on the wrist.
Take this B.S. in stride and just think about the people who really care about you and are counting on you. Maybe someday you will be in a position to stop something like this from happening. Till then, let’s just wait to transfer from this nightmare…
This place is pretty cut throat, you never know.
i bet if your name was tyrone or jamal, instead of cody, you wouldnt have gotten in any trouble at all!
heigh for Florida.
I’m sorry you have to be a subordinate. Play it cool. God knows what else they could do.
no, but the chances of winning when you take on the “man” is slim to none. My suspended bus means that if I get in any trouble at all in the next 6 months I go from E-5 to E-4.
Even if you win the appeal you will still get demoted?
trouble has a way of finding you, it seems. stay tough, big guy. You’ll be out soon enough.
On the plus side, I’ll hook you up with top notch free medical care in a few years.
i don’t know to say other than this sucks. thinking of you