MAJ Pavelka,

 

Thank you for all your hard work regarding the inquiry and resolution of the issues of the false and malicious accusations of Criminal Trespassing (Felony) and Harassing Communications (Misdemeanor) perpetrated by several member of Fort Hood's Finest, i.e. members of the Provost Marshall's Office Federal Police and Military Police, in particular, the two officers, CPL G. Basset and his Supervisor.

 

I don’t know if you are aware of but I had come to the III CORPS IG Office before. However I was initially directed to go talk to the 13^th COSCOM IG to try to get my concerns/grievances address. At the 13^th COSCOM IG office, I met with a female senior NCO and I started to explain to her much of what had happened regarding all of this issues. She informed me that she been speaking to LTC Liening just earlier that same week. However regarding my issues, she seemed very disinterested from the start with much of what I had to say but did asked me what I wanted. She did not seem to accept much of what I said or could care less. I understood that she did not care much about what had really happened from as far back as my wife’s change of command ceremony. Instead, in a dissuasive manner shifted focus to one issue that I had told her about where I had attempted to approach my wife to process the double DITY move paperwork. I informed her that my wife had taken my expenses receipts to put in the paperwork. However I was not able to follow through as to the status of the entire process as a Military Police officer had told me that I needed to stay away from where my family lived and actually that I should stay off of Fort Hood entirely. I was threaten and told that I better not be caught driving on base. As I did not know where my wife lived and did not have her new phone number I was not able to contact her for a little over 2 months. I decided that would wait for my brother to return from Iraq as his two-year tour was almost done and then drive on base to find out what was going on. It was at this time that I found that I was not able to find any record within the police station regarding this incident.

 

As for the IG NCO, I informed her that I was hoping that my wife had calmed down and as the MP incident was questionable, I finally decided to contact my wife. This is when my wife informed me that that the paperwork request had to be put in before a certain date and that the time window had already expired. I told the NCO that this information was incorrect as I someone had informed me that I had two years to process this request. The IG NCO told me that she did not know that it was possible to do a dual Dity move but upon realizing that I was very persistent in this matter told me that she could at least look into the regulations.  I informed her that I was very positive this could be done as my wife had contacted the transportation and/or finance office from her old Duty Station and asked about this prior to PCSing to Fort Hood. I told her that my wife does not lie and would not have told me this information if she did not look into this first.

 

At this time, the 13^th COSCOM IG, NCO stated that getting reimbursed could not be possible if I was not stated on my Wife’s PCS orders. I again insisted and told her that this also was stated very clearly in the orders. She again asked me how I knew and I had to tell her that my wife had given me a copy of her orders but that I had misplaced them. She told me that she could look into this but that if I did not provide her with a copy of my wife’s orders she could not do anything. I told her that I could try to convince my wife to fax her a copy of the orders but that I was not allowed to go to her Company area as per COL Liening’s letter, which is the reason of my complaint in the first place. I again asked her very persistently if she was trying to tell me that she could not do anything if I did not find a copy of my wife orders. She retracted her statement and said that she did not say that but that she would need a copy of the orders.

 

She once again told me that she would look into this and provided me with the IG form to write about the Dity Move inquiry. I was a quite upset about her attempt to overlook the whole thing but decided to at least fill out the form in an effort to get compensated for my moving expenses. She told me to fax her the orders when I obtained them.

 

I left and decided that it was better not to go through her as per her mannerism as she would probably do little or no effort to help me and the paperwork would probably get delayed or lost as I hear it happens so often in the military.

 

It was only after my numerous failed attempts to resolve the issue in a civil manner with the Provost Marshall’s office that I decided to contact the III CORPS IG office. My main concern was initially clearing my name of any or all false allegations on me but I felt that my concerns were of little or no importance to most people I had talked to, including my attempt to bring this issue forward to the 13TH COSCOM IG office.

 

Since the root cause of all these issue was COL Liening’s actions and especially the letter that was written with the assistance from the III Corps legal office, I felt that I had to resort to coming to your Office and that I needed to bring out all these issues as I was pretty much dissuaded from bringing forth anything related to all the events leading up to. In his letter, without knowing much about our family nor taking any time to find out as per Army regulations, he prevented me from trying to resolve very important and critical family issues that could ultimately affect the over health and safety of both my wife and son!

 

The letter also states “her position as a company commander would require all of her time and energies.” I don’t know if it is a selfish motivation for career advancement, etc. I was trying to see my wife in the most lawful manner and outside of duty hours still COL Liening and most people within his unit failed to recognize this! Members of his command repeatedly denied me access to my son even though there were no court orders preventing access to him.  Additionally, on the few occasions that I had attempted to resolve family issues, my wife was spending evenings at the company area until 6 or 7 PM.  In a time of extreme duress with possible deployment, the worst possible lapse in sound judgment, by a field grade officer, was not properly being taken into consideration. His actions ultimately placed the over safety and wealth of my son at the greatest risk!

 

Due to his actions, I was left with no choice but to try to seek help through the Chaplin’s office but this was not very encouraging either. I was finally left with no other alternative but to seek help from the Department of Social work. I believe that this department additionally caused more harm than good as good.

 

As I explained to your during our first face to face meeting, COL Liening with the assistance of SJA CPT Brou formulated a letter which the presented to me by MAJ Lodi during my wife's change of command ceremony. It was on this date and within 15 minutes of being presented with this letter that members from Fort Hood Federal Police acted so unprofessionally. Additionally, some members of the Federal police read the letter to me and told me to stay away from most of the on base facilities to include the library. They were not specific about telling where else I could not go but the alluded to and I am 100% sure that they were attempting to discourage me from going to my son's school as this was the only was I was able to see my son since Military Police officers had informed me not to come to my wife's residence.

 

To complicate to worst, I love my wife very much and I was basically giving her time and space in an effort to allow her to calm down as I reiterate that she has being under a lot of stress. Regardless, I was still married and I am a legal dependent and thus authorized to live on base housing with her.

 

If I chose to stay away from the house, it was because of own volitions as an attempt to maintain the peace with my wife. Still I had/have every right to live inside this house as per military orders, etc! I believe that no one within PMOs office had the right to deny me access to the residence, much less tell me to never come by the house again. I understand that during presumed instances of family disturbances, males are 99.99% of the times forced to leave their own homes with threats of arrests etc. Beyond this, male military service members are almost always provided with a temporary living quarters/i.e. barracks and I was not even offered this!

 

The reality is that that my wife was and has being under a lot of stress for many reasons not to mention her recent move to Fort Hood without any assistance from anyone to take care of our son. People within the Fort Hood community have kept me from both of them without knowing full details and have thus placed them at a higher risk and thus endangered both of them especially my son who I have noticed to behave in a manner not consistent with his happy self.

 

As I mentioned above my, my wife is under considerable stress as she has recently undertake her new assignment here at Fort Hood and the even more grave reality that she will be sent to do her patriotic duty when she is sent to Iraq in the near future as she had been informed prior to PCSing to Fort Hood.

 

Going to war under the present conditions that exist in Iraq with soldiers dieing everyday can produce unknown emotional, physical, and mental stress in anyone. I know that many soldiers have to go through some PTSD therapy when returning from Iraq but has anybody ever given it thought that perhaps the same anxieties affect soldiers who are bound to be deployed! I know first-hand that no training can ever prevent such strong feelings in a person and can relate to some of the feelings that my wife might be going through as I experienced this back in January 1991 when I was deployed to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. However, even more I am at a lost as to what extent my wife is suffering from this serious reality.

 

Key issues that complicate things:

1.My wife has just PCSed to Fort Hood by herself as I was supposed to join her here and has recently also just become company commander for A Co 21^ST CSH (Combat Surgical Hospital). A company command as most officers know is considered the most stressful tour during a young officer career due that you have to deal with of all things other peoples family issues.

2.The probability of going to war will take my wife away from our son for an undeterminable amount of time and she is not prepared to be away from him yet as she has stated this many times. Furthermore she has not had to deal with such event in the past as both she and I have taken every possible measure so that she has not had be away from him for more 4-5 times since birth especially since he was diagnosed with cancer from as early as 2 months of age. These events were military schools required by the Army so that she could continue in her military career. The longest time period she has ever had to be away from our son has been the 8 weeks during the Advanced Officer School.

3. Throughout my wife’s life from early child to now, her mother Carmen Scott has had a very significant impact on every member of her family to include my wife‘s father Gordon, her older brother Robert, but most drastically on Andrea herself as she was the youngest and most vulnerable of the three. The result is that my wife is an overly sensitive individual and has felt at a lost many times in her life longing for the completeness which she did not adequately have or was denied by particularly one member of her family. These feelings of emptiness have made her have some difficulties when dealing with many regular everyday issues or with certain people.

4.Mr. Gordon additionally has been suffering from Parkinson disease since 1992 and was the only reason Andrea and I requested a compassionate reassignment to Washington DC so that we could be there for him as we did not know how much longer Mr. Gordon would be with us. It was during this time that her mom Carmen insisted that she wanted to live with us and help raise our son. At my wife’s repeated requests, I had very little choice but to agree to her staying for an initial period of 3 months.  Her mom being an orphan has never being comfortable with the idea that her daughter would find a husband and would have to be away from her. While in DC she realized that she did not want to return to California alone and consistently brought out reasonings to justify her continual stay to live with us without any consideration for us.

5.My wife and I agreed to come here to Fort Hood to be away from the constant interference to our family from her mom but since her arrival to Fort Hood she now also does not have (though many times negative) the limited support which her mom had provided when in California.

6.Even before our marriage, there are prior documented experiences / history of Carmen affecting the serenity and well being of her daughter and later our family as through her actions towards my wife. My wife said that the reason she thought I was the perfect man for her was that I was a very stable and emotional strong person. With older brother Robert being a Navy Seal and never around, with Father Gordon’s inevitable passing away due to his very frail health, Carmen is my wife’s only other close blood relative. I have never tried to keep her daughter from her and only requested that she gives distance and some time to allow our family growing room. Carmen does not want to remain alone in this world and since she has had very little success in directly impacting me, she has focused all her energies/actions by going through her daughter directly. My wife has always felt caught in the middle between her mom and myself and producing current situation

 

 

Even beyond all that stated above all the way back from her first years at West Point, my wife has gone through a lot in life. With plenty of help and encouragement, she has become the fine officer that she is and has served her country the best she can; all this can be ascertained by her outstanding record. She has done everything humanly possible to try to make a career of the military.

 

As a former member of the same West Point class, I am very aware of the Army lifestyle and as her husband have maintained myself very involved behind the scenes in helping her advance her career. I have helped her with whatever the Army expected or demanded of her whenever she requested my help. There are approximately over 7,000 West Pointers that know me very well due to the fact I was one of a hand full Desert Strom/Gulf War veterans, and who can attest to my wife's and my character! Many of these individuals are quite integrated into almost every facet of the military and beyond. In addition, there are quite a large number of them here at Fort Hood as well.

 

As discussed during our first meeting, you mentioned that her chain of command, in particular COL Liening, based their actions on them knowing my wife first. This is very unprofessional and unacceptable especially in the military as it is continuously emphasized that allowing one's emotions to interference with work can have devastating effect especially during war. In according with AR 608-99, COL Liening should have attempted to contact myself for whatever additional information might have been necessary to make an informed decision on this matter.  When I first came to Fort Hood, we met briefly, and he learned who I was, while I on the other hand did not know that he was my wife's battalion commander. I on the order hand made several attempts to contact him after my wife alluded that she had gone up to her commander. She informed me that he had told her to let me know that I should not come to the company area.

 

For me, it was the right thing to do, i.e. not getting anyone that does not need to know involve in any issues, especially personal ones that might affect any job! At first this was an issue between my wife and I, and I made every effort to keep it as such until my wife invited CPT Meyers. Prior to this meeting, my wife and I agreed to talk but I specially asked my wife to bring some one neutral and not anyone from her unit. I was accepting of CPT Meyers at first but it later became was quite evident that he was not a neutral party. During this first meeting with my wife CPT Meyers grabbed a chair and sat right at the same table with my wife and I. This was a family matter and I do not believe that he had any right to seat so close to us thus be interfering in our affairs. I was not totally against he being there. CPT Meyers did not know me at all, yet he felt compelled to be inches away from a family issue. When me wife starting venting, I remained patient and quite and let her have her say. I felt that it was better not to say anything as to avoid any major altercations or escalations between my wife and I. I listened to everything my wife had to say and then after a few minutes when she had calmed down a little, I asked if I could see my son. After a little dialogue between my wife and I, It was around this time that CPT Meyers interfered and stated that I could only see my son supervise! In my opinion, He is NO ONE of any importance to my family nor did he have any valid reasoning to make such a decision. I told him that this was unacceptable and that I wanted to see son. He emboldened my wife to say that it was not sure if this was a good idea at this time. Around this time, I was annoyed that he could make such callous remarks and I left them at the table.

 

Perhaps once again emotions got a hold of this individual as well and as per his comments regarding my son. He did not know anything about us other than what my wife brought forth which was one-sided. I did not wanted to get into any drawn out argument between my wife and the chaplain even though he took it upon himself to deny me seeing my son, which I had been away from for over 3 years! 

 

It is well known by many that COL Liening and other key individuals within his unit did not know everything that was going on. Instead of attempting to contact me, he decided to write the letter, which I surrendered a copy to you, during our first meeting. It is obvious that I as a non-military spouse acted or attempt to act more professionally for the over wealth fare and credit of my wife, units and soldiers under his command, and ultimately my son!

 

On another issue, being that my wife is very dedicated to the welfare of the soldiers in her command she will naturally focus all of her attention, time, and energies toward her duties. It has come to my attention, beyond her understanding, that they are using this admirable trait against her. She is basically being kept quite busy thus allowing her no time to find out what has truly happened for herself. The worst result is also quite obvious to me and people around her that wife is now under a lot more stress after her Chain of command took such careless and drastic measures in violating a very common and standing Army-wide regulation. She is under lot more than she was when I was attempting to contact to see if she was OK.

 

I have repeatedly tried to work with everyone!  AT THE VERY LEAST everyone from as far back as CPT Meyers, COL Liening, MAJ Lodi, CPL Basset and his supervisor, 13th COSCOM IG, members from the PMO records sections, and especially the III Corps SJA's office who should know the law and army regulations better than anyone else! They have all made some very unwise, unethical, unprofessional, or illegal decisions/violations regarding my family through their interference, mishandling, or so call "administrative errors." I was under the impression that perhaps people did not know all the facts and decided to overlook many grievances. Without going into more details, it is very unfortunate that every mistake was handled by either an attempt to over look, cover it up, reassign personnel, or shift the blame on someone else!

 

I don't know if my wife is fully aware of everything yet, but some individuals befriended my wife or at least pretended to have her best interest at heart but only deceived her and/or recommended she take certain type of actions. At the last minute they abandoned her as they were very aware of all the violations that were going on. I believe that some of these individuals even turned their back on her and/or were the ones that pushed to obtain illegal evidence to assist in covering up or shifting the blame to her. The most disturbing thing is that I love my wife and son very much and had decided that I would rather focus most of my attentions in trying to save our marriage, because of such I initially had even made significant allowances for everyone to try to rectify their mistakes!

 

Unfortunately, the main reasoning for this letter is that I don't feel that this issue is anywhere close to being completely resolved as it has come to my attention that once again members of that same outstanding organization, Fort Hood's PMO, have done the same thing to my wife. They have acted very unprofessional and disrespected her as well. They have also compiled malicious and false evidence against her and have use this for their own sick and perverted methods to humiliated her in front of her unit and then some other people which I don’t want to go into yet got her unit involved for them to demand that she go to Social Service sponsored sessions! Single male soldiers go through a lot of stress prior to going to the war theater. My wife has a lot more issues going on and some people have only complicated and made things worst! 

 

Beyond all the facts and documentation, I am married to Andrea L. Flores and as her husband, am very aware of many issues that have affected our life from as far back as her teenage years. I have a very genuine care for her as my wife and as the mother of my son. As long as I am married to her, thus as her husband, I have every right to ensure for her safety and well being, even if she feels unsure if she still wants to remain married or not. Also regardless of any civil proceedings, as mother to my son, I have every right of concern to care for her well being and safety thereafter as well. As such, I have requested any MPR’s and/or if there are any civil or criminal cases pending on my wife from as far back as October 8 due to the unethical and unprofessional actions of at least one department.

 

Regarding the department of social work to which I brought forward my concerns back in February 26, 2005, to this day I have not received any feedback as to my initial request even though I have requested this information several times! As a very concern husband, I believed that I am entitled to know anything that could potentially affect the overall safety of any member of my family! My wife and I have been trying to resolve our family issues slowly but there are some external factors beyond all the duress and stress that are preventing her from being her normal.

 

This family has been interfered with by too many unscrupulous people who have only managed to strain a very fragile marriage, which my wife and I have been desperately trying to save considering everything that we have gone through while trying to serve our country as a family! We have avoided divorce so many times at all cost until coming here to Fort Hood, which we thought, was such a family friendly base! I would still like to request a full inquiry into all issues that goes beyond the initial MPR reports.

 

My family in the most important thing and we have had to endure so much. I don’t think that anyone should have to go through any of this! I have tried to prevent an unwanted divorce from happening so that we all could move on with life but I believe that this might be well beyond my wife’s or my control. Beyond any inquiry if you do decide to proceed with this, as I might not have a family to focus on, I will be dedicating a great portion of my life in educating people so that they do not have to go through such misfortune.

 

I can be contacted at this email address and would prefer this method of communication concerning anything regarding this issue.

 

Respectfully

Je###