All that is really quite bad enough. Then LawDog brings to us his latest posting (link below, assuming I got the beastie to cooperate) on a service member that was in my opinion nothing short of swindled by a storage rental place he entrusted with his lifes belongings while he was in Iraq.
It's not nice to sell somebodies belongings without notifying them of a problem, and then continue to accept payment for storing the belongings you've sold.
The LawDog Files: You may fire when ready, Gridley
First off on my list of little questions, is why - when we know perfectly well we are sending military folk abroad from time to time - that most bases don't have a large and grimly secure private property storage facility or pod style storage facility located on-site either as a benefit or operated at-cost for service members on deployment?
Second, barring such a direct solution, why can't the JAG come screaming down with an offer of boundless free and vindictive legal services when a service member is so *obviously* wronged.
Sure, JAG has neither the resources nor the mission of litigating every service members civil issue - but with equal certainty, there should be a process for assisting those who've been wronged or taken advantage of as a direct or proximate result of their military service.
However, with the current Congress, I think all our service members can count on is lip service and a really rough time in the barrel.
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It used to be, service members DID have storage facilities on base for deployed members' personal belongings, that couldn't go with when they were deployed ...................... with all the BRAC cuts over the years, though, {plus the "local businesses'" howling over the government 'cutting into' their money-making} I doubt that such are still available at any other than the LARGE bases ................... if there ................... as a Reservist, SPC Rogalin probably drills at an office-type complex, that doesn't offer storage ................. and unless geography and rank are in his favor, storage at a nearby military base is probably not an option ................... Public Storage needs to make it right .................. AND offer a written, abject apology ...............
Semper Steamin'
DM
Agreed, agreed. Frankly, I'm moderately vindictive, so in the words of the immortal Alan Shore, "give him PILES of money...piles and piles and piles of money..." in the form of punitive damages *VEG*
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