No offense to any ex-cons who are trying to turn their lives around, but I don't want you in my military. I'm sorry, but, if a teacher has to have a superb background in order to be around children, why can a criminal join the military and move into housing with hundreds of military children? Heck, how can you even be trusted to defend and serve as required if you couldn't do it in the day-to-day life?
Am I the only one that thinks this way? I mean, the military is at capacity and trying to get rid of soldiers to lower their budget, so why aren't the standards for becoming a soldier drastically rising as a result?
I'm a Canadian military spouse and I am horrified by some of the people that live on my base. We knew someone who we thought was a "good guy" who ended up raping and molesting two people AND one attempt was done on a on of his friends' girlfriend while he was on a training.
ReplyDeleteWe've had a RHQ ( Residential Housing Units- on base) was under surveillance because it was believed to be a crack house! LOVELY!
Trailer park doesn't even explain my neighbours! They leave their junk EVERYWHERE, they let their dogs crap all over my lawn to which my husband has either stepped in on the way to get the garbage cans and after garbage day is over their cans and recycle boxes are still out on the sidewalk waiting for someone to pick them up. I feel like come summer there is going to be someone out on their front porch with a banjo and one tooth! LOL!
The best story I have was during one training when Cpl. Mayhem was gone I noticed there was were more MPs coming around our street. At first I thought this was nice since almost all the soldiers were gone on this exercise, only to find out later that they were coming around because the house on the other side of the street of us were calling the cops on the house directly behind them because of the noise and fights that were going on!
You are not alone!
As for convicts joining the military- I don't a big issue if they want to change their lives, everyone should get a second chance, but bringing their past dramas on base is another issue all together.
Oh I feel so bad for you Vanessa! It sounds like Canada has it even worse than the US with the Military wife lifestyle from your posts.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that people who mess up can deserve a second chance IF they have already proven that they're "better." But, instead we see people go to the military because they have nothing else, and they act as shamefully as they did before they got a criminal record.
I have another post on this subject where my dad came to visit and his phone disappeared somewhere between leaving the PX food court and getting into the car. The phone got stolen by an MP - an MP for goodness sake! - and he erased everything on the phone and was planning on reselling it until I left a message threatening to use GPS tracking to press charges on the thief. Now, we're allowing the benefit of the doubt that the phone was dropped, but my dad was pretty confident that he put it in his pocket. Either way though, for someone who should have the protective moral values of an MP, he was trying to profit off of the misfortune of a veteran (which my dad is).
Then, at my son's birthday party, a soldier/dad was telling me about how I live across the street from a prostitute who takes costumers in her military house while her husband is deployed.
If you want to be like that, there's not a lot people can do to stop you. But for the amount we are being charged to live here, it is ridiculous for this area to be a slum like this. I literally lived in ghettos during college, where it was always loud, cars being stolen, neighbors being shot/stabbed, drugs, alcohol, drug dogs running around free (and angry) < that place had less crime than post housing!! It's insane, and if the military has to take low-life's with bad or questionable backgrounds, there should at least be limits as to whether or not they can live on post, for the safety of the non-criminal soldiers and their families.