Left to ponder suicide and extra, the Air Drive and Division of Protection (DOD) will quickly abandon one in all their very own, they usually merely don’t appear to care.
The Gateway Pundit spoke to Jeremy “Weed” Sorenson, a former Air Drive fighter pilot and director of Guard and Reserve Affairs for the Uniformed Companies Justice & Advocacy Group (USJAG)—a company whose major mission is “to make sure injured service members are separated with advantages, honor, and dignity intact.”
A number of quick months in the past, he grew to become conscious of a case he considers “most egregious.” The case entails Workers Sergeant Kyle Matthews, a nine-year veteran of the Air Drive, who is ready to be “unlawfully kicked out of the army” on Tuesday, August 27.
SSgt. Matthews returned from a deployment to the Center East final 12 months. And in response to his spouse, he returned a special man. The daddy of six sought psychological well being therapy.
“Over the course of the final 15 months,” Sorenson stated, “[SSgt. Matthews] has participated in a number of off-base inpatient and outpatient therapy packages [at the request of health officials from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Wrightstown, New Jersey].”
Consequently, he was identified with a number of psychological well being circumstances, together with bipolar dysfunction, post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD), main depressive dysfunction, generalized anxiousness dysfunction, and panic dysfunction.
Regardless of requiring additional inpatient therapy, medical personnel started outpatient therapy on the New Jersey Air Drive base. Sorenson was shocked to be taught “they denied that he had any of the earlier diagnoses [and determined that] a number of off-base suppliers had erred.
Conveniently, the Air Drive has identified him with adjustment dysfunction, and borderline character dysfunction, each of that are non-compensable underneath the Incapacity Analysis System.”
It’s additionally attention-grabbing to notice that one of many medicines SSgt. Matthews has been prescribed is lithium—which he has been prescribed for over six months to deal with bipolar dysfunction. “But, the Air Drive refuses to acknowledge the prognosis [of bipolar disorder],” Sorenson revealed. “How can a drugs be prescribed whereas the prognosis is denied?” he questioned.
On the brink of SSgt. Matthews’ “illegal separation,” USJAG won’t be silenced on this problem, contemplating the discharge of varied paperwork and recordings to the general public.
Sorenson stated, “We now have a plethora of medical documentation, together with some which display that the Division of Protection medical suppliers are coordinating along with his chain of command to make these diagnoses in an effort to administratively separate him with out advantages.”
USJAG has documentation from SSgt. Matthew’s civilian suppliers, “documenting conversations with the army suppliers indicating the identical,” the USJAG director of Guard and Reserve Affairs additionally disclosed.
Reluctantly, Sorenson additionally shared that SSgt. Matthews has tried to commit suicide on not less than three events within the final 15 months. “And to compound what he’s already coping with, they’re precluding his incapacity advantages and trampling on his rights,” Sorenson argued.
“I’m appalled by the DOD’s try to deny him his advantages whereas additionally denying him his proper to due course of underneath the Fifth Modification. That is the senior management of the Air Drive and DOD violating the Structure of the USA. It should be stopped!”
Troy McIntosh, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Drive for Reserve Affairs and Airman and Guardian Readiness, educated in culinary arts, has been overseeing the case for not less than the final two months.
Based on Sorenson, he has personally denied SSgt. Matthews entry to his full medical report, which is required to be supplied to him underneath the Well being Insurance coverage Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA.)
For Sorenson, “that is a part of a coordinated effort to forestall [SSgt. Mathews] from accessing data which demonstrates the malfeasance of the Division of Protection.”
As well as, he stated, McIntosh has “lied on a number of events” and “blatantly supplied false data” associated to the prognosis and therapy of SSgt. Matthews.
Within the battle for the therapy and advantages that SSgt. Matthews has earned by practically a decade of service, Sorenson stated, “It has been an absolute circus with an absence of truthful communication from the DOD.”
“I’ve personally engaged with [SSgt. Matthews’] chain of command, all the best way as much as the Secretary of the Air Drive and I’ve been ignored, lied to, and misled,” Sorenson shared.
“This has been dropped at the direct consideration of Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin, who has fallen in keeping with the decrease ranges, ignored the difficulty, and has taken no motion.”
Based on Sorenson, SecDef Austin has been supplied “the whole lot he must make the fitting determination and produce the DOD into compliance with the regulation”—however he has refused to take action. This tells Sorenson that “as a result of the Air Drive is aware of [SSgt. Matthews] has all these issues, and is aware of he’s at excessive suicide threat, it seems to me that they principally simply wish to get him off their books earlier than he commits suicide.”
On Tuesday, with out intervention from the DOD, SSgt. Matthews will discover himself separated from the Air Drive with out advantages or well being care. Sadly, he’ll be left alone to battle ideas of suicide and unable to supply for his spouse and 6 youngsters.
How has this been allowed to occur underneath the watch of the U.S. Air Drive and Division of Protection?
