Posted on Dec 7, 2015
Have you ever been the victim of a clerical error?
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I raise my hand to this one. I was the victim of a clerical error at AR-PERSCOM. With a keyboard stoke someone changed me from being female to male. After becoming aware of this I contacted AR-PERSCOM to request they change it back. I was asked to prove I am a female by sending documentation. No problem I sent off a copy of my birth certificate as requested. Waited and still no change was made to my records. I contacted AR-PERSCOM again to be told that the birth certificate was not sufficient evidence and they would need a letter from the ASG Commander verifying that I am a female, a copy of my MEPS entrance exam (which they should have had) and a copy of my ID. I get everything together send it off... wait again and still no change. I called AR-PERSCOM again to be told all of this did not prove my sex.... and asked if I could provide a Baptismal certificate. I told the SGT I was talking to I would hand deliver it and while I was there I would strip in front of his desk so he could confirm it for himself. He said this would not be necessary. The next day I checked and magically I was back to being a female. Has anyone else been the victim of a clerical error?
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I once accidently signed a form in the recruiter's office and ended up in the Army
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I'm still am to this day. According with the VA my name is Roberto Roberto Mendoza-Diaz... Sorry but one Roberto is more than enough.
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Maj Mike Sciales
Bob Bob, you can appreciate what happened to the Vietnamese when they came. They use family name first, so when they came here Nuygen went from Family name to First name so you'd have been Diaz M Roberto-Roberto. Lol
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Maj Mike Sciales
I understand, That's what the Vietnamese also said, but that never stopped those guys with clip boards. They'd be confused by it, so it'd still be Diaz M and they'd spell Diaz wrong also. We aren't talking high tech operators here.
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Great story, CPT (Join to see)! I was the victim of laziness and don't-give-a-shit-itis. About 25 years ago I applied to attend the FBI academy. It was a fairly involved application process and packet. I submitted everything to my brigade level S-3 training section and waited. I didn't want to bother them, so I just waited. After the time I should have heard something on whether or not I had been selected, I went to the section and asked if they had heard anything back on my packet. They asked, "What packet?" I insisted I had submitted a packet. One of the folks looked around and discovered that my packet had been sitting in a filing cabinet at Brigade S-3 Training for months. It had gone nowhere! Needless to say, (a) I wasn't selected to attend the academy, and (b) I was kinda pissed. But I didn't threaten to strip!! :-)
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