Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
Former military falsifies application, violates the regulation, places career in jeopardy. Former military cries persecution when caught. It's a witch hunt, after all. In a world where a disgraced former commander-in-chief made popular lies and "alternate facts," it's become de rigueur and normalized: blame the enforcement agency when one's subterfuge and dishonesty is discovered.
Entirely preventable, of course. (Simply tell the truth). Lie, falsify, then blame the FAA: Logical, honorable.
Not.
And yet some of us, who have been 100% on the up and up with the FAA have had medicals suspended or deferred because of the FAA wanting 40+ year old info in my case that they were asking me to prove a negative, that had never happened and that wouldn't have been reported on a 8500 if I held a FAA medical at the time.
I'm on FAA SIs for things that happened when I was active duty that the VA denies.
Yet the FAA after reviewing my records wanted proof I never lost consciousness in a car accident that left me with a gnarly scar on my head. When I was three.
They wanted a letter from someone else in the car proving I never lost consciousness.
dad: deceased (2017)
Sister: deceased (1982)
brother: brain damage from accident (hit on his side by dui running red light)
Me: unreliable witness because I was 3. And subject of investigation.
Mom: not going to make an elderly woman with PTSD issues relive the worst day of her life under oath.
I'll call this a freaking witch hunt.