Bad enough that the country doesn't want to pony up, once again and decades long, as to the results of the wars they support. Especially the wealthy like the top execs of this company in this report and the wall street investors in the defense industries. Bad enough as well to listen to either congressional bodies veterans affairs hearings as they attack and lay blame on the VA, especially the tepublicans who did nothing as they rubber stamped the current two wars costs and increasing defense budgets, on and off the books, and all on the credit card. Especially with the reports on many soldiers and veterans issues like the high unemployment numbers and the growing results of those.
But to have a defense contractor go after an Honored Soldier and Veteran with charges that any responsible employer, in the highly profitable defense industry yet, would offer possible help to a good employee, if true and so recognized while employed. Especially a combat soldier recognized so highly, speaks volumes of the charges leveled by same. Again if true especially with what we've finally gotten to be recognized, after the decades of ignoring, what combat PTS really is and that it exists and PTS isn't only in soldiers of wars but civilians of traumatic life experiences as well, in and out of war theaters.
Nov. 29, 2011 - In September, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's most prestigious military award, to Sgt. Dakota Meyer, the marine who saved 36 of his comrades during an ambush in Afghanistan.
Obama called Meyer one of the most "down-to-earth guys that you will ever meet."
But today Meyer, 23, is having trouble getting a job because of allegations by defense contractor BAE Systems that he has a drinking problem and is mentally unstable. Meyer filed legal papers Monday claiming the allegations were in retaliation for objections he raised about BAE's alleged decision to sell high-tech sniper scopes to the Pakistani military.
After leaving active duty in May 2010, Meyer worked at Ausgar Technologies, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business in California, until April 2011.
"He exhibited a maturity for his age and an insightful capability to get the job done and provide recommendations to improve on what we are doing. I was very impressed while he was working for us. He was an outstanding employee," Tom Grant, a retired military naval officer and a senior program manager at Ausgar Technologies, told ABC News.
When asked about the allegations of mental instability and a drinking problem, Grant said, "While Meyer was working for me, I never saw evidence of either of those issues."
In March 2011, Meyer began working at BAE Systems, a British military contracting company, where he learned the company was trying to sell advanced thermal optic scopes to the Pakistani military.
"We are taking the best gear, the best technology on the market to date and giving it to guys known to stab us in the back," Meyer wrote to BAE Systems manager Bobby McCreight, his former co-worker, according to the lawsuit. "These are the same people killing our guys."
But BAE Systems is claiming that that decision is not up to them. read more>>>
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