Left to ponder suicide and extra, the Air Pressure and Division of Protection (DOD) will quickly abandon one in every of their very own, they usually merely don’t appear to care.
The Gateway Pundit spoke to Jeremy “Weed” Sorenson, a former Air Pressure fighter pilot and director of Guard and Reserve Affairs for the Uniformed Companies Justice & Advocacy Group (USJAG)—a corporation whose major mission is “to make sure injured service members are separated with advantages, honor, and dignity intact.”
Just a few 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 Pressure, who is ready to be “unlawfully kicked out of the navy” 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 remedy.
“Over the course of the final 15 months,” Sorenson stated, “[SSgt. Matthews] has participated in a number of off-base inpatient and outpatient remedy packages [at the request of health officials from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Wrightstown, New Jersey].”
Consequently, he was recognized with a number of psychological well being situations, together with bipolar dysfunction, post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD), main depressive dysfunction, generalized anxiousness dysfunction, and panic dysfunction.
Regardless of requiring additional inpatient remedy, medical personnel started outpatient remedy on the New Jersey Air Pressure base. Sorenson was shocked to study “they denied that he had any of the earlier diagnoses [and determined that] a number of off-base suppliers had erred.
Conveniently, the Air Pressure has recognized him with adjustment dysfunction, and borderline persona dysfunction, each of that are non-compensable below the Incapacity Analysis System.”
It’s additionally attention-grabbing to notice that one of many drugs SSgt. Matthews has been prescribed is lithium—which he has been prescribed for over six months to deal with bipolar dysfunction. “But, the Air Pressure refuses to acknowledge the analysis [of bipolar disorder],” Sorenson revealed. “How can a drugs be prescribed whereas the analysis is denied?” he questioned.
On the brink of SSgt. Matthews’ “illegal separation,” USJAG is not going to be silenced on this difficulty, contemplating the discharge of assorted paperwork and recordings to the general public.
Sorenson stated, “We’ve a plethora of medical documentation, together with some which show that the Division of Protection medical suppliers are coordinating along with his chain of command to make these diagnoses to be able to administratively separate him with out advantages.”
USJAG has documentation from SSgt. Matthew’s civilian suppliers, “documenting conversations with the navy 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 no 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 below the Fifth Modification. That is the senior management of the Air Pressure and DOD violating the Structure of america. It have to be stopped!”
Troy McIntosh, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Pressure for Reserve Affairs and Airman and Guardian Readiness, educated in culinary arts, has been overseeing the case for no less than the final two months.
In accordance with Sorenson, he has personally denied SSgt. Matthews entry to his full medical report, which is required to be supplied to him below the Well being Insurance coverage Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA.)
For Sorenson, “that is a part of a coordinated effort to stop [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 analysis and remedy of SSgt. Matthews.
Within the struggle for the remedy and advantages that SSgt. Matthews has earned by practically a decade of service, Sorenson stated, “It has been an absolute circus with a scarcity of truthful communication from the DOD.”
“I’ve personally engaged with [SSgt. Matthews’] chain of command, all the way in which as much as the Secretary of the Air Pressure 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 step with the decrease ranges, ignored the problem, and has taken no motion.”
In accordance with Sorenson, SecDef Austin has been supplied “all the things he must make the suitable determination and convey the DOD into compliance with the regulation”—however he has refused to take action. This tells Sorenson that “as a result of the Air Pressure 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 mainly simply need 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 Pressure 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 kids.
How has this been allowed to occur below the watch of the U.S. Air Pressure and Division of Protection?
