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In the military, some officers really think that they are better than enlisted people, and they don’t want to associate with them if it can be avoided.

That was the case in this story, but an enlisted person found his letter demanding a change in housing where he really went off on how he felt about enlisted people.

He then spread that information far and wide, which eventually led to the officer getting fired and losing his entire career.

This is a great example of why you should always treat people with respect. Read through the full story below to see what you think of how it played out.

Naval officer didn’t want to live with enlisted, gets fired

So, this happened about 1.5 years ago, but I recently heard the news on how far my revenge went.

Let’s see what he did.

I was a Navy enlisted service member and was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan for a few years before I got transferred back stateside.

I worked in the main hospital that cared for service members and their beneficiaries. It’s a small hospital, so everyone knows everyone.

You should never leave documents out on your desk.

Shortly after I left, I caught wind of a new physician officer working in the radiology department. My friends would say he’s horrible to work with, but that’s nothing new.

However, someone saw him print a letter and he left it on his desk and took a picture of it and send it to me.

He’s requesting to move from enlisted housing to officer.

It seems that he is entitled to the officer housing.

For context, military housing is available for those who are married, have a family, or are qualified based on their rank and depending on the military base itself.

Typically, officer housing is much nicer than the enlisted. In Yokosuka, housing is basically the same all around because it’s overseas.

Seems like a normal setup.

But most of the housing are apartments and each apartment complex is called a tower, example: Fuji Tower.

There are 9 towers and 2 are for officers since enlisted members outnumber officers by a lot.

Now, one thing about the military, is that stuff happens. When getting stationed, it is the active duty members’ responsibility to either apply for housing on or off base before arriving, depending on what is allowed.

As long as you have a place to live, you should be happy.

If there is limited space and you don’t apply for housing on time, then you get put where there is space. So, our new officer got placed in an enlisted tower.

Mind you, enlisted members have families of their own and other officers have been placed in enlisted housing before without an issue.

Let’s see what the officer complained about.

Here are some quotes in his letter: (and yes, this guy has a PhD)

• I have many valid objections to living in a building of almost all enlisted and even many lower enlisted being an officer.
• There is a lot of crime, violent actions, drug use and alcoholism that happen in enlisted housing. There are also assaults and other perverts.

He really thinks his family is more important?

• I have a good-looking family, a wife and 2 daughters age 3 and 4. They are prime targets to be victims for these enlisted deviant activities. My family should be safe in housing that is with officers. Officers are much more respectable and these types of deviant activities are incredibly rare compared to the deviant activities of enlisted being common place.
• Other officer families will not want to visit us because our family lives on enlisted housing.

His list of grievances is getting long.

• My children need to make friends with other officer children. My wife needs to make friends with other officers wives. I need to make friends with other officers.
• Forcing an officer to live in a large apartment building with almost all enlisted is unethical.

You get the idea, so this guy basically looks down on all enlisted service members assuming every single one are drug users, perverts/pedos, criminals, etc.

The kicker? He was an enlisted Army member before going to Officer school!

Some people have a very high opinion of themselves.

In civilian terms, think of a manager that discriminates and calls all of his subordinates criminals, violent, alcoholics, pervs, drug users, etc based on your job position.

Forgetting that some have a family and you know, maybe aren’t any of those things.

And he not only have the authority to ruin your work life, he can ruin your personal life (deny days off, make you stay late, write you up if he doesn’t like you and not letting you promote).

What is this guy going to do?

Safe to say, everyone was mad, and I had nothing to lose. I was separating soon and figure I’d have some fun before I get out.

I created a burner Facebook account and posted the letter and the officer’s picture on a popular military enlisted group page.

People are not going to like what they read.

Within 2 days, it spread like wild fire. But I wasn’t done yet. The military has something called challenge coins. Think of trading cards, but custom coins that come in many shapes and sizes.

I designed one with his face and a big middle finger in the back. On top of that I designed stickers to show how proud us deviants are.

This is too funny.

Other coin designs came from other people as well but so far I think mine was more popular.

I sold over 70 coins to the initial person who originally send me the picture at a huge discounted price so she can sell them for a profit for herself.

Everyone knows exactly who is on the coin.

So, the officer’s face is everywhere because most people keep their coins displayed on their desk.

No matter where the officer went at work, he would see his face on someone’s desk. And since it didn’t have his name on the coin, he can’t officially say it’s him.

Wow, he made some good money from this.

I sold more stateside and even some got sent to Europe. I made about $3k overall which was nice.

The story even got featured on the online Naval newspaper and on 2 popular YouTube channels.

The officer might get in trouble for this.

And if you’re military, you know the only time big military care is when it’s too big to sweep under the rug.

This story got the officer sent up to Captain’s Mast which is like Navy court. He tried to say his wife was the one that wrote the letter, but no one is buying it because her writing style is way worse.

The revenge isn’t over yet.

She even tried to take the fall but no one believed her. They both ended up deleting all social media. Due to this, he got served 3 UCMJ articles which basically are his offenses.

But there’s more! When you’re in the military, you have a deadline on how long you can be a certain rank.

Wow, this issue ruined his career, too.

If you don’t pick up, then you’re kicked out. And because he’s new and got served UCMJ Articles, he won’t be up for promotion and therefore was involuntarily separated.

Also, the officer program he went through pays for his PhD. When the military pays for your PhD, you have to serve 10 years to pay them back, if you don’t complete 10 years, you have to pay the military back with money instead of time.

He basically ruined his whole life.

So, he lost his job and now has to pay back the military for his PhD and since it takes awhile for the paperwork to have him and his family sent back stateside, you can bet he socially suffered because no one worked with him.

If he would have been nicer about his request for different housing, this could all have been avoided.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about this situation.

This person’s father had housing on this base, but he liked it.

Here is another example of officers thinking they are better than everyone else.

A former officer says to respect the enlisted people, though.

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Here is someone who lived on that base, but he wasn’t involved.

This person heard of this story, too.

No matter your rank, you aren’t better than anyone else as a person. There are plenty of great officers, and plenty of great enlisted people.

Of course, there are also bad people who work as officers and enlisted people.