There are enlisted military members, and there are officers. Officers typically have a college degree which is often paid for by the military.

In today’s story, a naval officer who had the military pay for medical school writes a letter stating reasons he doesn’t think he should live in enlisted housing. He thinks he should be transferred to officer housing.

The letter is pretty slanderous, and an enlisted service member decides to get revenge.

See how the story plays 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.

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.

He heard about a physician officer who wanted to move to officer housing.

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. (Edit: found out it’s not a private letter, he did actually sent it to housing, and most of housing is ran by enlisted members)

Here’s a quick overview of military 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. 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.

It’s not uncommon for officers to be placed in enlisted housing.

Now, one thing about the military, 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.

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.

The physician claimed the enlisted tower wasn’t safe.

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.

The physician claimed his family wasn’t safe.

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.

The physician claimed his family wouldn’t make friends.

Other officer families will not want to visit us because our family lives on enlisted housing.

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.

OP puts the physician’s attitude in perspective…

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!

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).

He started his revenge on Facebook…

Safe to say, everyone was mad, and I have 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.

Within 2 days, it spread like wild fire. But I wasn’t done yet.

The revenge continued with challenge coins.

The military has some thing 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.

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.

OP made a profit on the coins.

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, can’t officially say it’s him.

I sold more stateside and even some got sent to Europe.

I made about $3k overall which was nice.

The physician tried to blame his wife.

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

The physician lost his job and owed the military money!

But there’s more!

When you’re in the military, you have a deadline on how long you can be a certain rank. If you dont 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.

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.

That was some intense revenge! Hopefully the physician learned his lesson not to look down on people.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story…

This reader remembers hearing about this story.

Here’s another important detail…

Living off base is even better.

This former officer agrees that living off base is a good idea.

Here’s a story from a teacher who taught on this same base…

That family was certainly entitled! It’s great that they got put in their place.

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