Posted on Jun 30, 2021
Could the Constitutions Preamble be used to beat back any idea that Group Think Critical Race Theory?
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We The People!
That cuts through all
Why dont you teach that in side of every group you talk of in race theory is a group or sociopaths trying to harm itself
There is no black white brown red yellow Christian Muslim Jewish race that does not have evil people in it that act against what is right against all humanity
To talk or race in such a black white brown way is so uneducated that it seems that logic and simple math has left
That cuts through all
Why dont you teach that in side of every group you talk of in race theory is a group or sociopaths trying to harm itself
There is no black white brown red yellow Christian Muslim Jewish race that does not have evil people in it that act against what is right against all humanity
To talk or race in such a black white brown way is so uneducated that it seems that logic and simple math has left
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SFC Michael Hasbun - damn! I made the connection very simple. Connect dot #1 with dot #2. No 4,968 dots to this response, weirdo.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
SSgt (Join to see) no doubt you made connections.
But the topic is how this guy takes EVERY topic and makes it about the preamble.
Uniform question? What does the preamble say?
Need to know the form to submit an award? What does the preamble say?
What regulation covers work/rest cycles for pilots? What does the preamble say?
Its a fetish that borders on obsession.
But the topic is how this guy takes EVERY topic and makes it about the preamble.
Uniform question? What does the preamble say?
Need to know the form to submit an award? What does the preamble say?
What regulation covers work/rest cycles for pilots? What does the preamble say?
Its a fetish that borders on obsession.
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PO3 Aaron Hassay
SFC Michael Hasbun
I am a glad possibly obsessed guy who had to return to the Rereading of the Oath of Enlistment I made at 18, which triggered the memory of the Constitution. A google search found me the Preamble. I never read it before. But once I read it, I gained resolve, and stopped feeling like taking a 18 year old bootcamp ass beating was finally done, as I had t leg to stand on “We The People”, deep in the hellish battle for VA support of a homeless housing voucher denied me, and all the other resources of the va, because I had a reserve enlistment. I was no longer nothing “We The People” with a reserve enlistment.
So I rebuild myself in a life saving life altering way by holding on to which the forefathers produced to give me some resolve against tyrants tyrant terrible governance leadership and laws created that are also terrible and systems of government that are terrible compared the direction the PReamble sets.
Yes we, “We The People” should all be addicted to the Preamble.
My life was used in Federal Court as a marker of VA unlawful behavior. How about yours did you get in on a case like this?
Would you like to be called observed if you were trying to rebuild your life on something besides terrible leadership?
The Constitution Created 3 branches of Gov one of those being the Judicial Branch which became very real to me and I am entered in.
I found out I was the son of a real life Army Infantry Soldier Vietnam 66-68 and the Grandson of a WW2 Navy Combat Veteran in this story as well. I got no benefit of being the son of a injured vietnam combat soldier, as a dependent son.
I wonder what you would do if you or your son got no benefit of service from the va?
Regardless would you turn to the Constition PReamble to build up your self confidence that these denials of benefits and service are all against that which you swore an Oath to Defend the Constitution and its Preamble?
swords-to-plowshares.org/research-publications/monk-v-shulkin-amicus-brief
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 4 ARGUMENT....................................................................................................................... 5
I. Current Delays in Veterans Benefits Appeals Violate Due Process ........................ 5
A. The VA’s Delays Have Substantial Consequences For Veterans. ..................... 7
1. Veteransexperiencefinancialhardship,homelessness,threatstosafety, and increased health problems while they wait long periods for appeals to resolve their entitlement to disability benefits................................... 11
2. Veteransexperiencehopelessnessandemotionalstrainfromthe injustice of denials and the indifference to their disabilities delay represents. .............................................................................................. 15
3. Delays in veterans’ appeals undermine the effective and accurate adjudication of their claims. .................................................................. 17
12. After finally winning his claim and receiving benefits, A.H. was able to focus on other life goals instead of on minimal economic survival, safety, and the stress of having his injuries and experiences denied. He followed through on VA-assisted housing opportunities, moved into an apartment, and reported briefly being able to spend time caring for his father, a Vietnam veteran, before his father passed away.
13. Grave errors during the VA examination to rate A.H.’s disability added to the delay and distress A.H. endured. At the time the BVA granted A.H. service connection, VA treatment records in his claims file documented years of his paranoid and delusional thinking, chronic suicidal thoughts and prior suicide attempts, and chronically low functioning. Inexplicably, without conducting an examination, and without considering or referencing this clinical history, the VA assigned A.H. a 0% disability rating in August 2016. The result was crushing for A.H., and unlawful.
A.H.’s treatment records show that the VA’s errors and appellate delay exacerbated his mental health problems. A.H. focused on the claims process and on thoughts that the government was intentionally trying to harm him to such an extent that he had difficulty engaging in day-to-day activities. After finally winning his appeal, A.H. was devastated when the
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VA inexplicably rated his mental health disability at 0%
The medical record in A.H.’s case documented his lengthy history of severe mental health symptoms and homelessness. After winning service connection for his condition on appeal, the VA inexplicably rated his disability at 0% without an examination.
After winning his appeal and accessing his benefits, A.H. was able to obtain housing and briefly care for his father before his father passed away. Ex. A, Decl. of Barbara Saavedra ¶¶ 10-12.
—————— I GUESS IT WOULD NOT BE SO HARD IF IT WAS NOT THE FACT MY FATHER WAS A REAL DEAL RAMBO INFANTRY SOLDIER WITH ISSUES, AND I WAS DISTRACTED FIGHTING FOR MY OWN LIFE AGAINST VA NEGLIGENCE. I AM ALSO THE GRANDSON OF WW2. I DID NOT REALLY KNOW EITHER AS A KID. VIETNAM SOLDIERS WERE TOSSED AWAY AND SO WERE THEIR SONS. I DON'T KNOW HOW WOULD FEEL IF THAT HAPPENED TO YOU AND YOUR SON. WOULD YOU TURN TO THE CONSTITUTION PREAMBLE TO GET SOME SENSE OF WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE AND WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE?
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HASSAY, MICHAEL ALBERT
PVT US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 01/02/1948
DATE OF DEATH: 10/19/2017
BURIED AT: SECTION AH SITE 19
SOUTHERN NEVADA VETERANS MEMORIAL CEMETERY
1900 VETERANS MEMORIAL DR BOULDER CITY, NV 89005
[login to see]
S1 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 1927
DATE OF DEATH: 1998
BURIED AT:
SAINT JOSEPH CEMETERY
NANTICOKE, PA 18634
———-THE VA AD BCNR WOULD NEVER EVER COMMENT ON THE FACT I WAS ASSIGNED TO SHIPS THAT WERE RUNNING A “TEST” WITH “PROBLEMS” WITH AN ENLISTMENT THAT THE NAVY HAD “no previous experience with”. HERE ARE THE JUST SOME OF THE REPORTS, THAT ENDS WITH A FINAL REPORT STATING THESE SHIPS AND ENLISTMENT BECAUSE OF THE PROBLEMS HAVE ALL BEEN SHUT DOWN,
1983
CNA Center Naval Analyses
Naval Selected Reserve:A Total Force Perspective
Deborah Clay Mendez
“Sea and Air Mariners are non-prior service recruits who take the Recruit Training Course(Bootcamp) and directly into the SELRES without service in the active force.”
“The restriction of promotion for unrated SAM’s may not be accurate, but the Naval Reserve has no previous experience with non-prior service,non-A-School personnel, and there is some doubt a rating could be earned through only part time On-Job-Training,”
————-
dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA032080.pdf
1975 DOD Annual Report to Secretary Defense Reserve Forces
Manpower and recruiting problems also directly affected readiness as well as impacting on training through increased requirements for retraining or for initial skill qualification. Since the outset of the no-draft era, we have had to rely to a great extent on veteran volunteers to meet our strength needs. Although the recruiting of veterans has allowed us to meet our goals, over-dependence on veterans has some problems. SInce veterans come to the Reserve with their specialties already determined by prior training and experience, the ability to manage the specialties of personnel to match specific mobilization billet requirements is reduced because of geographic locations. In addition, large imputes of veterans increased the average grade and longevity of our manpower, resulting in higher pay costs. These were offset to some extent by reduction in the necessity to provide lengthy periods of initial training. As a result we have reached a point where we must now place greater emphasis on recruitment of young, non-prior service personnel.
Another aspect is to have the Guard and Reserve readily available under conditions other then a national emergency or a declaration of war. Such authority would demonstrate our swift response capability for mobilization and would serve as a warning to potential aggressors and as encouragement to our allies.
This legislation will enable the Services to plan for broader application of the “Total Force Policy” in satisfying contemporary national defense requirements. The “Total Force Policy” dictates that all available forces—U.S. Active Forces, U.S. Guard and Reserve Forces, and the forces of our allies—would be considered in determining the Defense needs to most future contingencies. In carrying out these missions, the volunteer potential of the Reserve Forces will continue to be fully exploited.
3. To increase integration of Reserve Forces in active forces missions
B. Test manning active Navy Destroyers with a mix of 80 percent active personnel and 20 percent reservists in comparison with 100% active manned ships.”
.defense.gov/Portals/70/Documents/annual_reports/1976-77_DoD_AR.pdf?ver=2014-06-24-150722-417
1976 Annual Defense Department Report
Another more important initiative is our plan to man some of our active surface combatants at 80% of active manning, relying on selected reserve personnel to fill the remaining billets upon mobilization.”
Admittingly, there are some potential problems involved in the 80/20 concept, most of which center around the interrelated factors of maintenance and operational tempo. The concept is predicated on the assumption that the understrength active crew, augmented by reserves during drill periods, would be able to maintain their ship in adequate material condition and conduct the required training for basic combat missions.”
Evolution of the Military's Current Active-Reserve Force Mix
U.S. Navy (USN) The Navy Reserve has evolved over time from a semi-autonomous strategic reserve in terms of platforms and trained individuals to what is today a strategic and operational reserve that is a mix of individuals and unit types that either complement or mirror elements of the AC. In the former case, the RC provides “skills and expertise to complete the Total Force inventory of capabilities”1 and in the latter case, the RC provides “skills and expertise that match the AC to offer greater capacity at lower carrying cost.”2 This evolution can be traced back to the aftermath of WW II, when the Navy had a large number of ships and aircraft and trained the Navy Reserve to staff them in anticipation of a need for a large force to wage war with the Warsaw Pact. By the end of the Cold War, this scenario had become obsolete. In the case of ships, as the size of the fleet declined, the Navy moved to a policy of fully manning all its ships so that these ships would not require RC augmentation in the event of war. In addition, the problems of maintaining ships in standby status with part-time personnel and the impracticality of rotating part-time personnel to deployed units made employing reservists, other than full-time support (FTS) personnel, to operate ships unworkable, and the Navy Reserve Fleet (NRF) disappeared.
To meet the demands for experienced petty officers as the fleet expanded toward its goal of 600 ships, the Navy relied, in part, on voluntary recalls designed to draw prior-service sailors into the Reserves and then back onto active duty. To backfill the petty officers who went to the fleet, the Navy initiated the Sea/Air Mariner (SAM) program to attract new recruits to the Naval Reserve by offering tuition assistance. However, this program proved unsuccessful because its benefits and 6-year obligation compared unfavorably with Army and Air Force programs.66
Here is the case.
I am a glad possibly obsessed guy who had to return to the Rereading of the Oath of Enlistment I made at 18, which triggered the memory of the Constitution. A google search found me the Preamble. I never read it before. But once I read it, I gained resolve, and stopped feeling like taking a 18 year old bootcamp ass beating was finally done, as I had t leg to stand on “We The People”, deep in the hellish battle for VA support of a homeless housing voucher denied me, and all the other resources of the va, because I had a reserve enlistment. I was no longer nothing “We The People” with a reserve enlistment.
So I rebuild myself in a life saving life altering way by holding on to which the forefathers produced to give me some resolve against tyrants tyrant terrible governance leadership and laws created that are also terrible and systems of government that are terrible compared the direction the PReamble sets.
Yes we, “We The People” should all be addicted to the Preamble.
My life was used in Federal Court as a marker of VA unlawful behavior. How about yours did you get in on a case like this?
Would you like to be called observed if you were trying to rebuild your life on something besides terrible leadership?
The Constitution Created 3 branches of Gov one of those being the Judicial Branch which became very real to me and I am entered in.
I found out I was the son of a real life Army Infantry Soldier Vietnam 66-68 and the Grandson of a WW2 Navy Combat Veteran in this story as well. I got no benefit of being the son of a injured vietnam combat soldier, as a dependent son.
I wonder what you would do if you or your son got no benefit of service from the va?
Regardless would you turn to the Constition PReamble to build up your self confidence that these denials of benefits and service are all against that which you swore an Oath to Defend the Constitution and its Preamble?
swords-to-plowshares.org/research-publications/monk-v-shulkin-amicus-brief
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 4 ARGUMENT....................................................................................................................... 5
I. Current Delays in Veterans Benefits Appeals Violate Due Process ........................ 5
A. The VA’s Delays Have Substantial Consequences For Veterans. ..................... 7
1. Veteransexperiencefinancialhardship,homelessness,threatstosafety, and increased health problems while they wait long periods for appeals to resolve their entitlement to disability benefits................................... 11
2. Veteransexperiencehopelessnessandemotionalstrainfromthe injustice of denials and the indifference to their disabilities delay represents. .............................................................................................. 15
3. Delays in veterans’ appeals undermine the effective and accurate adjudication of their claims. .................................................................. 17
12. After finally winning his claim and receiving benefits, A.H. was able to focus on other life goals instead of on minimal economic survival, safety, and the stress of having his injuries and experiences denied. He followed through on VA-assisted housing opportunities, moved into an apartment, and reported briefly being able to spend time caring for his father, a Vietnam veteran, before his father passed away.
13. Grave errors during the VA examination to rate A.H.’s disability added to the delay and distress A.H. endured. At the time the BVA granted A.H. service connection, VA treatment records in his claims file documented years of his paranoid and delusional thinking, chronic suicidal thoughts and prior suicide attempts, and chronically low functioning. Inexplicably, without conducting an examination, and without considering or referencing this clinical history, the VA assigned A.H. a 0% disability rating in August 2016. The result was crushing for A.H., and unlawful.
A.H.’s treatment records show that the VA’s errors and appellate delay exacerbated his mental health problems. A.H. focused on the claims process and on thoughts that the government was intentionally trying to harm him to such an extent that he had difficulty engaging in day-to-day activities. After finally winning his appeal, A.H. was devastated when the
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VA inexplicably rated his mental health disability at 0%
The medical record in A.H.’s case documented his lengthy history of severe mental health symptoms and homelessness. After winning service connection for his condition on appeal, the VA inexplicably rated his disability at 0% without an examination.
After winning his appeal and accessing his benefits, A.H. was able to obtain housing and briefly care for his father before his father passed away. Ex. A, Decl. of Barbara Saavedra ¶¶ 10-12.
—————— I GUESS IT WOULD NOT BE SO HARD IF IT WAS NOT THE FACT MY FATHER WAS A REAL DEAL RAMBO INFANTRY SOLDIER WITH ISSUES, AND I WAS DISTRACTED FIGHTING FOR MY OWN LIFE AGAINST VA NEGLIGENCE. I AM ALSO THE GRANDSON OF WW2. I DID NOT REALLY KNOW EITHER AS A KID. VIETNAM SOLDIERS WERE TOSSED AWAY AND SO WERE THEIR SONS. I DON'T KNOW HOW WOULD FEEL IF THAT HAPPENED TO YOU AND YOUR SON. WOULD YOU TURN TO THE CONSTITUTION PREAMBLE TO GET SOME SENSE OF WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE AND WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE?
1.
HASSAY, MICHAEL ALBERT
PVT US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 01/02/1948
DATE OF DEATH: 10/19/2017
BURIED AT: SECTION AH SITE 19
SOUTHERN NEVADA VETERANS MEMORIAL CEMETERY
1900 VETERANS MEMORIAL DR BOULDER CITY, NV 89005
[login to see]
S1 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 1927
DATE OF DEATH: 1998
BURIED AT:
SAINT JOSEPH CEMETERY
NANTICOKE, PA 18634
———-THE VA AD BCNR WOULD NEVER EVER COMMENT ON THE FACT I WAS ASSIGNED TO SHIPS THAT WERE RUNNING A “TEST” WITH “PROBLEMS” WITH AN ENLISTMENT THAT THE NAVY HAD “no previous experience with”. HERE ARE THE JUST SOME OF THE REPORTS, THAT ENDS WITH A FINAL REPORT STATING THESE SHIPS AND ENLISTMENT BECAUSE OF THE PROBLEMS HAVE ALL BEEN SHUT DOWN,
1983
CNA Center Naval Analyses
Naval Selected Reserve:A Total Force Perspective
Deborah Clay Mendez
“Sea and Air Mariners are non-prior service recruits who take the Recruit Training Course(Bootcamp) and directly into the SELRES without service in the active force.”
“The restriction of promotion for unrated SAM’s may not be accurate, but the Naval Reserve has no previous experience with non-prior service,non-A-School personnel, and there is some doubt a rating could be earned through only part time On-Job-Training,”
————-
dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA032080.pdf
1975 DOD Annual Report to Secretary Defense Reserve Forces
Manpower and recruiting problems also directly affected readiness as well as impacting on training through increased requirements for retraining or for initial skill qualification. Since the outset of the no-draft era, we have had to rely to a great extent on veteran volunteers to meet our strength needs. Although the recruiting of veterans has allowed us to meet our goals, over-dependence on veterans has some problems. SInce veterans come to the Reserve with their specialties already determined by prior training and experience, the ability to manage the specialties of personnel to match specific mobilization billet requirements is reduced because of geographic locations. In addition, large imputes of veterans increased the average grade and longevity of our manpower, resulting in higher pay costs. These were offset to some extent by reduction in the necessity to provide lengthy periods of initial training. As a result we have reached a point where we must now place greater emphasis on recruitment of young, non-prior service personnel.
Another aspect is to have the Guard and Reserve readily available under conditions other then a national emergency or a declaration of war. Such authority would demonstrate our swift response capability for mobilization and would serve as a warning to potential aggressors and as encouragement to our allies.
This legislation will enable the Services to plan for broader application of the “Total Force Policy” in satisfying contemporary national defense requirements. The “Total Force Policy” dictates that all available forces—U.S. Active Forces, U.S. Guard and Reserve Forces, and the forces of our allies—would be considered in determining the Defense needs to most future contingencies. In carrying out these missions, the volunteer potential of the Reserve Forces will continue to be fully exploited.
3. To increase integration of Reserve Forces in active forces missions
B. Test manning active Navy Destroyers with a mix of 80 percent active personnel and 20 percent reservists in comparison with 100% active manned ships.”
.defense.gov/Portals/70/Documents/annual_reports/1976-77_DoD_AR.pdf?ver=2014-06-24-150722-417
1976 Annual Defense Department Report
Another more important initiative is our plan to man some of our active surface combatants at 80% of active manning, relying on selected reserve personnel to fill the remaining billets upon mobilization.”
Admittingly, there are some potential problems involved in the 80/20 concept, most of which center around the interrelated factors of maintenance and operational tempo. The concept is predicated on the assumption that the understrength active crew, augmented by reserves during drill periods, would be able to maintain their ship in adequate material condition and conduct the required training for basic combat missions.”
Evolution of the Military's Current Active-Reserve Force Mix
U.S. Navy (USN) The Navy Reserve has evolved over time from a semi-autonomous strategic reserve in terms of platforms and trained individuals to what is today a strategic and operational reserve that is a mix of individuals and unit types that either complement or mirror elements of the AC. In the former case, the RC provides “skills and expertise to complete the Total Force inventory of capabilities”1 and in the latter case, the RC provides “skills and expertise that match the AC to offer greater capacity at lower carrying cost.”2 This evolution can be traced back to the aftermath of WW II, when the Navy had a large number of ships and aircraft and trained the Navy Reserve to staff them in anticipation of a need for a large force to wage war with the Warsaw Pact. By the end of the Cold War, this scenario had become obsolete. In the case of ships, as the size of the fleet declined, the Navy moved to a policy of fully manning all its ships so that these ships would not require RC augmentation in the event of war. In addition, the problems of maintaining ships in standby status with part-time personnel and the impracticality of rotating part-time personnel to deployed units made employing reservists, other than full-time support (FTS) personnel, to operate ships unworkable, and the Navy Reserve Fleet (NRF) disappeared.
To meet the demands for experienced petty officers as the fleet expanded toward its goal of 600 ships, the Navy relied, in part, on voluntary recalls designed to draw prior-service sailors into the Reserves and then back onto active duty. To backfill the petty officers who went to the fleet, the Navy initiated the Sea/Air Mariner (SAM) program to attract new recruits to the Naval Reserve by offering tuition assistance. However, this program proved unsuccessful because its benefits and 6-year obligation compared unfavorably with Army and Air Force programs.66
Here is the case.
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PO3 Aaron Hassay
SSgt (Join to see)
Thanks for the positive feedback and study.
I think this is exactly what the founding fathers hoped for is the common folk citizen to continually be using the foundational documents in review of current day issues and developing. How soon we forget the foundational documents even after we swear an oath to defend them.
How can you question anything if you dont know what is the guidance behind something?
I started reading the Articles today.
Thanks for sharing what you did.
Here is what I found and took out as excerpts.
Transcript of Constitution of the United States (1787)
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Section. 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
Article. II.
Section. 1.
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
——— Preamble in the Judicial Branch!!!!
THE PREAMBLE
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF THE PREAMBLE
Although the preamble is not a source of power for any department of the Federal Government,1 the Supreme Court has often referred to it as evidence of the origin, scope, and purpose of the Constitution.2 “Its true office,” wrote Joseph Story in his Commentaries, “is to expound the nature and extent and application of the powers actually conferred by the Constitution, and not substantively to create them. For example, the preamble declares one object to be, ‘provide for the common defense.’ No one can doubt that this does not enlarge the powers of Congress to pass any measures which they deem useful for the common defence. But suppose the terms of a given power admit of two constructions, the one more restrictive, the other more liberal, and each of them is consistent with the words, but is, and ought to be, governed by the intent of the power; if one could promote and the other defeat the common defence, ought not the former, upon the soundest principles of interpretation, to be adopted?”3
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I have been put in a few federal review many times. I have seen this play out what is right and wrong in real time as my life was used.
The VA the BCNR, ignoring evidence that is in the public domain, to include the Navy itself The NAVY IG investigated my own ship and said it was systemically weak in training and administration.
We all had a personal responsibility to fund and operate the Navy ships properly, as to match the guidance of the Preamble.
Obviously I am not sure if I am on here to make friends or really just discover and uncover facts of life to include the Constitution and its Preamble, that which if followed could possibly create better relationships throughout the system.
——— Aaron Hassay CASE STUDY. How was the Preamble observed as a dependent and a service member and a veteran?
swords-to-plowshares.org/research-publications/monk-v-shulkin-amicus-brief
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 4 ARGUMENT....................................................................................................................... 5
I. Current Delays in Veterans Benefits Appeals Violate Due Process ........................ 5
A. The VA’s Delays Have Substantial Consequences For Veterans. ..................... 7
1. Veteransexperiencefinancialhardship,homelessness,threatstosafety, and increased health problems while they wait long periods for appeals to resolve their entitlement to disability benefits................................... 11
2. Veteransexperiencehopelessnessandemotionalstrainfromthe injustice of denials and the indifference to their disabilities delay represents. .............................................................................................. 15
3. Delays in veterans’ appeals undermine the effective and accurate adjudication of their claims. .................................................................. 17
12. After finally winning his claim and receiving benefits, A.H. was able to focus on other life goals instead of on minimal economic survival, safety, and the stress of having his injuries and experiences denied. He followed through on VA-assisted housing opportunities, moved into an apartment, and reported briefly being able to spend time caring for his father, a Vietnam veteran, before his father passed away.
13. Grave errors during the VA examination to rate A.H.’s disability added to the delay and distress A.H. endured. At the time the BVA granted A.H. service connection, VA treatment records in his claims file documented years of his paranoid and delusional thinking, chronic suicidal thoughts and prior suicide attempts, and chronically low functioning. Inexplicably, without conducting an examination, and without considering or referencing this clinical history, the VA assigned A.H. a 0% disability rating in August 2016. The result was crushing for A.H., and unlawful.
A.H.’s treatment records show that the VA’s errors and appellate delay exacerbated his mental health problems. A.H. focused on the claims process and on thoughts that the government was intentionally trying to harm him to such an extent that he had difficulty engaging in day-to-day activities. After finally winning his appeal, A.H. was devastated when the
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VA inexplicably rated his mental health disability at 0%
The medical record in A.H.’s case documented his lengthy history of severe mental health symptoms and homelessness. After winning service connection for his condition on appeal, the VA inexplicably rated his disability at 0% without an examination.
After winning his appeal and accessing his benefits, A.H. was able to obtain housing and briefly care for his father before his father passed away. Ex. A, Decl. of Barbara Saavedra ¶¶ 10-12.
—————— I did not have enough time to be with him as I was trying to get my own military service well corrected
1.
HASSAY, MICHAEL ALBERT
PVT US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 01/02/1948
DATE OF DEATH: 10/19/2017
BURIED AT: SECTION AH SITE 19
SOUTHERN NEVADA VETERANS MEMORIAL CEMETERY
1900 VETERANS MEMORIAL DR BOULDER CITY, NV 89005
[login to see]
S1 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 1927
DATE OF DEATH: 1998
BURIED AT:
SAINT JOSEPH CEMETERY
NANTICOKE, PA 18634
———-THE VA AD BCNR WOULD NEVER EVER COMMENT ON THE FACT I WAS ASSIGNED TO SHIPS THAT WERE RUNNING A “TEST” WITH “PROBLEMS” WITH AN ENLISTMENT THAT THE NAVY HAD “no previous experience with”. HERE ARE THE JUST SOME OF THE REPORTS, THAT ENDS WITH A FINAL REPORT STATING THESE SHIPS AND ENLISTMENT BECAUSE OF THE PROBLEMS HAVE ALL BEEN SHUT DOWN,
1983
CNA Center Naval Analyses
Naval Selected Reserve:A Total Force Perspective
Deborah Clay Mendez
“Sea and Air Mariners are non-prior service recruits who take the Recruit Training Course(Bootcamp) and directly into the SELRES without service in the active force.”
“The restriction of promotion for unrated SAM’s may not be accurate, but the Naval Reserve has no previous experience with non-prior service,non-A-School personnel, and there is some doubt a rating could be earned through only part time On-Job-Training,”
————-
dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA032080.pdf
1975 DOD Annual Report to Secretary Defense Reserve Forces
Manpower and recruiting problems also directly affected readiness as well as impacting on training through increased requirements for retraining or for initial skill qualification. Since the outset of the no-draft era, we have had to rely to a great extent on veteran volunteers to meet our strength needs. Although the recruiting of veterans has allowed us to meet our goals, over-dependence on veterans has some problems. SInce veterans come to the Reserve with their specialties already determined by prior training and experience, the ability to manage the specialties of personnel to match specific mobilization billet requirements is reduced because of geographic locations. In addition, large imputes of veterans increased the average grade and longevity of our manpower, resulting in higher pay costs. These were offset to some extent by reduction in the necessity to provide lengthy periods of initial training. As a result we have reached a point where we must now place greater emphasis on recruitment of young, non-prior service personnel.
Another aspect is to have the Guard and Reserve readily available under conditions other then a national emergency or a declaration of war. Such authority would demonstrate our swift response capability for mobilization and would serve as a warning to potential aggressors and as encouragement to our allies.
This legislation will enable the Services to plan for broader application of the “Total Force Policy” in satisfying contemporary national defense requirements. The “Total Force Policy” dictates that all available forces—U.S. Active Forces, U.S. Guard and Reserve Forces, and the forces of our allies—would be considered in determining the Defense needs to most future contingencies. In carrying out these missions, the volunteer potential of the Reserve Forces will continue to be fully exploited.
3. To increase integration of Reserve Forces in active forces missions
B. Test manning active Navy Destroyers with a mix of 80 percent active personnel and 20 percent reservists in comparison with 100% active manned ships.”
.defense.gov/Portals/70/Documents/annual_reports/1976-77_DoD_AR.pdf?ver=2014-06-24-150722-417
1976 Annual Defense Department Report
Another more important initiative is our plan to man some of our active surface combatants at 80% of active manning, relying on selected reserve personnel to fill the remaining billets upon mobilization.”
Admittingly, there are some potential problems involved in the 80/20 concept, most of which center around the interrelated factors of maintenance and operational tempo. The concept is predicated on the assumption that the understrength active crew, augmented by reserves during drill periods, would be able to maintain their ship in adequate material condition and conduct the required training for basic combat missions.”
Evolution of the Military's Current Active-Reserve Force Mix
U.S. Navy (USN) The Navy Reserve has evolved over time from a semi-autonomous strategic reserve in terms of platforms and trained individuals to what is today a strategic and operational reserve that is a mix of individuals and unit types that either complement or mirror elements of the AC. In the former case, the RC provides “skills and expertise to complete the Total Force inventory of capabilities”1 and in the latter case, the RC provides “skills and expertise that match the AC to offer greater capacity at lower carrying cost.”2 This evolution can be traced back to the aftermath of WW II, when the Navy had a large number of ships and aircraft and trained the Navy Reserve to staff them in anticipation of a need for a large force to wage war with the Warsaw Pact. By the end of the Cold War, this scenario had become obsolete. In the case of ships, as the size of the fleet declined, the Navy moved to a policy of fully manning all its ships so that these ships would not require RC augmentation in the event of war. In addition, the problems of maintaining ships in standby status with part-time personnel and the impracticality of rotating part-time personnel to deployed units made employing reservists, other than full-time support (FTS) personnel, to operate ships unworkable, and the Navy Reserve Fleet (NRF) disappeared.
To meet the demands for experienced petty officers as the fleet expanded toward its goal of 600 ships, the Navy relied, in part, on voluntary recalls designed to draw prior-service sailors into the Reserves and then back onto active duty. To backfill the petty officers who went to the fleet, the Navy initiated the Sea/Air Mariner (SAM) program to attract new recruits to the Naval Reserve by offering tuition assistance. However, this program proved unsuccessful because its benefits and 6-year obligation compared unfavorably with Army and Air Force programs.66
Thanks for the positive feedback and study.
I think this is exactly what the founding fathers hoped for is the common folk citizen to continually be using the foundational documents in review of current day issues and developing. How soon we forget the foundational documents even after we swear an oath to defend them.
How can you question anything if you dont know what is the guidance behind something?
I started reading the Articles today.
Thanks for sharing what you did.
Here is what I found and took out as excerpts.
Transcript of Constitution of the United States (1787)
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Section. 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
Article. II.
Section. 1.
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
——— Preamble in the Judicial Branch!!!!
THE PREAMBLE
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF THE PREAMBLE
Although the preamble is not a source of power for any department of the Federal Government,1 the Supreme Court has often referred to it as evidence of the origin, scope, and purpose of the Constitution.2 “Its true office,” wrote Joseph Story in his Commentaries, “is to expound the nature and extent and application of the powers actually conferred by the Constitution, and not substantively to create them. For example, the preamble declares one object to be, ‘provide for the common defense.’ No one can doubt that this does not enlarge the powers of Congress to pass any measures which they deem useful for the common defence. But suppose the terms of a given power admit of two constructions, the one more restrictive, the other more liberal, and each of them is consistent with the words, but is, and ought to be, governed by the intent of the power; if one could promote and the other defeat the common defence, ought not the former, upon the soundest principles of interpretation, to be adopted?”3
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I have been put in a few federal review many times. I have seen this play out what is right and wrong in real time as my life was used.
The VA the BCNR, ignoring evidence that is in the public domain, to include the Navy itself The NAVY IG investigated my own ship and said it was systemically weak in training and administration.
We all had a personal responsibility to fund and operate the Navy ships properly, as to match the guidance of the Preamble.
Obviously I am not sure if I am on here to make friends or really just discover and uncover facts of life to include the Constitution and its Preamble, that which if followed could possibly create better relationships throughout the system.
——— Aaron Hassay CASE STUDY. How was the Preamble observed as a dependent and a service member and a veteran?
swords-to-plowshares.org/research-publications/monk-v-shulkin-amicus-brief
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 4 ARGUMENT....................................................................................................................... 5
I. Current Delays in Veterans Benefits Appeals Violate Due Process ........................ 5
A. The VA’s Delays Have Substantial Consequences For Veterans. ..................... 7
1. Veteransexperiencefinancialhardship,homelessness,threatstosafety, and increased health problems while they wait long periods for appeals to resolve their entitlement to disability benefits................................... 11
2. Veteransexperiencehopelessnessandemotionalstrainfromthe injustice of denials and the indifference to their disabilities delay represents. .............................................................................................. 15
3. Delays in veterans’ appeals undermine the effective and accurate adjudication of their claims. .................................................................. 17
12. After finally winning his claim and receiving benefits, A.H. was able to focus on other life goals instead of on minimal economic survival, safety, and the stress of having his injuries and experiences denied. He followed through on VA-assisted housing opportunities, moved into an apartment, and reported briefly being able to spend time caring for his father, a Vietnam veteran, before his father passed away.
13. Grave errors during the VA examination to rate A.H.’s disability added to the delay and distress A.H. endured. At the time the BVA granted A.H. service connection, VA treatment records in his claims file documented years of his paranoid and delusional thinking, chronic suicidal thoughts and prior suicide attempts, and chronically low functioning. Inexplicably, without conducting an examination, and without considering or referencing this clinical history, the VA assigned A.H. a 0% disability rating in August 2016. The result was crushing for A.H., and unlawful.
A.H.’s treatment records show that the VA’s errors and appellate delay exacerbated his mental health problems. A.H. focused on the claims process and on thoughts that the government was intentionally trying to harm him to such an extent that he had difficulty engaging in day-to-day activities. After finally winning his appeal, A.H. was devastated when the
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VA inexplicably rated his mental health disability at 0%
The medical record in A.H.’s case documented his lengthy history of severe mental health symptoms and homelessness. After winning service connection for his condition on appeal, the VA inexplicably rated his disability at 0% without an examination.
After winning his appeal and accessing his benefits, A.H. was able to obtain housing and briefly care for his father before his father passed away. Ex. A, Decl. of Barbara Saavedra ¶¶ 10-12.
—————— I did not have enough time to be with him as I was trying to get my own military service well corrected
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HASSAY, MICHAEL ALBERT
PVT US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 01/02/1948
DATE OF DEATH: 10/19/2017
BURIED AT: SECTION AH SITE 19
SOUTHERN NEVADA VETERANS MEMORIAL CEMETERY
1900 VETERANS MEMORIAL DR BOULDER CITY, NV 89005
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S1 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 1927
DATE OF DEATH: 1998
BURIED AT:
SAINT JOSEPH CEMETERY
NANTICOKE, PA 18634
———-THE VA AD BCNR WOULD NEVER EVER COMMENT ON THE FACT I WAS ASSIGNED TO SHIPS THAT WERE RUNNING A “TEST” WITH “PROBLEMS” WITH AN ENLISTMENT THAT THE NAVY HAD “no previous experience with”. HERE ARE THE JUST SOME OF THE REPORTS, THAT ENDS WITH A FINAL REPORT STATING THESE SHIPS AND ENLISTMENT BECAUSE OF THE PROBLEMS HAVE ALL BEEN SHUT DOWN,
1983
CNA Center Naval Analyses
Naval Selected Reserve:A Total Force Perspective
Deborah Clay Mendez
“Sea and Air Mariners are non-prior service recruits who take the Recruit Training Course(Bootcamp) and directly into the SELRES without service in the active force.”
“The restriction of promotion for unrated SAM’s may not be accurate, but the Naval Reserve has no previous experience with non-prior service,non-A-School personnel, and there is some doubt a rating could be earned through only part time On-Job-Training,”
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dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA032080.pdf
1975 DOD Annual Report to Secretary Defense Reserve Forces
Manpower and recruiting problems also directly affected readiness as well as impacting on training through increased requirements for retraining or for initial skill qualification. Since the outset of the no-draft era, we have had to rely to a great extent on veteran volunteers to meet our strength needs. Although the recruiting of veterans has allowed us to meet our goals, over-dependence on veterans has some problems. SInce veterans come to the Reserve with their specialties already determined by prior training and experience, the ability to manage the specialties of personnel to match specific mobilization billet requirements is reduced because of geographic locations. In addition, large imputes of veterans increased the average grade and longevity of our manpower, resulting in higher pay costs. These were offset to some extent by reduction in the necessity to provide lengthy periods of initial training. As a result we have reached a point where we must now place greater emphasis on recruitment of young, non-prior service personnel.
Another aspect is to have the Guard and Reserve readily available under conditions other then a national emergency or a declaration of war. Such authority would demonstrate our swift response capability for mobilization and would serve as a warning to potential aggressors and as encouragement to our allies.
This legislation will enable the Services to plan for broader application of the “Total Force Policy” in satisfying contemporary national defense requirements. The “Total Force Policy” dictates that all available forces—U.S. Active Forces, U.S. Guard and Reserve Forces, and the forces of our allies—would be considered in determining the Defense needs to most future contingencies. In carrying out these missions, the volunteer potential of the Reserve Forces will continue to be fully exploited.
3. To increase integration of Reserve Forces in active forces missions
B. Test manning active Navy Destroyers with a mix of 80 percent active personnel and 20 percent reservists in comparison with 100% active manned ships.”
.defense.gov/Portals/70/Documents/annual_reports/1976-77_DoD_AR.pdf?ver=2014-06-24-150722-417
1976 Annual Defense Department Report
Another more important initiative is our plan to man some of our active surface combatants at 80% of active manning, relying on selected reserve personnel to fill the remaining billets upon mobilization.”
Admittingly, there are some potential problems involved in the 80/20 concept, most of which center around the interrelated factors of maintenance and operational tempo. The concept is predicated on the assumption that the understrength active crew, augmented by reserves during drill periods, would be able to maintain their ship in adequate material condition and conduct the required training for basic combat missions.”
Evolution of the Military's Current Active-Reserve Force Mix
U.S. Navy (USN) The Navy Reserve has evolved over time from a semi-autonomous strategic reserve in terms of platforms and trained individuals to what is today a strategic and operational reserve that is a mix of individuals and unit types that either complement or mirror elements of the AC. In the former case, the RC provides “skills and expertise to complete the Total Force inventory of capabilities”1 and in the latter case, the RC provides “skills and expertise that match the AC to offer greater capacity at lower carrying cost.”2 This evolution can be traced back to the aftermath of WW II, when the Navy had a large number of ships and aircraft and trained the Navy Reserve to staff them in anticipation of a need for a large force to wage war with the Warsaw Pact. By the end of the Cold War, this scenario had become obsolete. In the case of ships, as the size of the fleet declined, the Navy moved to a policy of fully manning all its ships so that these ships would not require RC augmentation in the event of war. In addition, the problems of maintaining ships in standby status with part-time personnel and the impracticality of rotating part-time personnel to deployed units made employing reservists, other than full-time support (FTS) personnel, to operate ships unworkable, and the Navy Reserve Fleet (NRF) disappeared.
To meet the demands for experienced petty officers as the fleet expanded toward its goal of 600 ships, the Navy relied, in part, on voluntary recalls designed to draw prior-service sailors into the Reserves and then back onto active duty. To backfill the petty officers who went to the fleet, the Navy initiated the Sea/Air Mariner (SAM) program to attract new recruits to the Naval Reserve by offering tuition assistance. However, this program proved unsuccessful because its benefits and 6-year obligation compared unfavorably with Army and Air Force programs.66
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what was the role of black people when that was written? were they free? slaves?
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PO3 Aaron Hassay
I did some google research.
African leaders had a selfish role to play in the slave trade that predates the United States. Britain then the United States ended their involvement in the Slave Trade in the 1800s. The United States fought a civil war to do such. We should be proud of this in “We The People”
Here are quotes from my study.
The slave trade made us realize that the white man was cruel.” But many rulers of West African empires, such as the Ashanti kingdom, whose descendants still live in this part of modern-day Ghana, also profited, selling captured slaves in exchange for guns, cloth, alcohol and other Western manufactured goods.
Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834.
The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also
known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865. The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and much of the South left in ruin.
African leaders had a selfish role to play in the slave trade that predates the United States. Britain then the United States ended their involvement in the Slave Trade in the 1800s. The United States fought a civil war to do such. We should be proud of this in “We The People”
Here are quotes from my study.
The slave trade made us realize that the white man was cruel.” But many rulers of West African empires, such as the Ashanti kingdom, whose descendants still live in this part of modern-day Ghana, also profited, selling captured slaves in exchange for guns, cloth, alcohol and other Western manufactured goods.
Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834.
The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also
known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865. The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and much of the South left in ruin.
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Lt Col Timothy Cassidy-Curtis
With all the above, it might be said that slavery was ended (for good, for everybody, as any kind of official US policy) on June 19th, 1865, which is when people in the State of Texas were given the proclamation. This date is now a Federal Holiday, celebrated on the same date, called "Juneteenth." The first proposal for "Juneteenth" was by the Trump Administration in the summer of 2020.
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SMSgt Bob W.
Tim, thanks for your comments. I only have one problem--holidays. To me, we need four holidays---Christmas, New Years, July 4th and my birthday. The rest are a waste. For a store owner they are sales events, for an employer, it is 11+days off for the employees, some with, some without pay. For first responders, juggling the shifts, it is drunks, accidents, crime, and death. For families, it is planned trips with a, hopefully, a great and memorable time. We has state holidays--César Chavez day; Casimir Pulaski Day; Day After Thanksgiving; Native American Day; and Susan B. Anthony's Birthday to name a few. Yes, some are for reflecting on the life of an individual others are ridiculous, such as Day After Thanksgiving, Town Meeting Day, and Confederate Memorial Day. The US has to many holidays; the answer is give everyone two weeks off in June and July to "go on holiday" and "honor" the person or event they feel compelled remember. Heck, Tim, hopefully, we can have a day to honor you other than Father's Day and your birthday. By the way, we do need a little levity on this site. Enjoy.
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