| FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF JILL METZGER
"KIDNAPPING" IN KYRGYZSTAN - FORMER USAF
"POSTER GIRL" NOW RETIRED ON LUCRATIVE
100% PTSD "DISABILITY" PENSION - WILL
TWO-TIME AIR FORCE MARATHON WINNER RUN
AGAIN IN DAYTON, OHIO SEPT 15TH? - PAO
OFFICE PUTS ON VOICE-MAIL TO SCREEN CALLS
TOP BRASS WHO PROTECTED METZGER COUNT
ON MEDIA PALS AT AIR FORCE TIMES TO NOT
COVER PTSD "$CAM" PAYOFF - WOUNDED AND
DISABLED VETS TELL MILITARYCORRUPTION.COM
OF DISGUST AT JILL'S "FAVORED TREATMENT"
© 2007
MilitaryCorruption.com
"I've been trying for almost a year now to get a 100% (disability) rating, and this (expletive-deleted) female major gets favored treatment and a PTSD payoff? It's a disgrace!" said the wounded Iraq War vet from his bed in a VA hospital.
"Maybe if my daddy was a retired colonel and I had OSI agents in the family, my paperwork might move a lot faster," the soldier complained. "Well, it just goes to show how far down the toilet the Air Force has gone."
We respect the genuinely disabled veteran's remarks, but in reality, it isn't the rank-and-file men and women in blue he should be bitter about. They know they have been lied to and disrespected. It's the gutless and perhaps "compromised" USAF top brass that deserve his contempt. They protected Maj. Jill Metzger from day one, despite her implausible story that rivals "The dog ate my homework" for reliability and truthfulness.
With the first anniversary of Metzger's so-called "kidnapping" in Kyrgyzstan upon us, we still shake our heads in wonder at what the pampered Air Force "poster girl" got away with.
Those who have read our hard-hitting reporting on this case [click on "related stories" box at end of this article] - don't bother with Air Force TIMES, a "politically-correct" publication that doesn't like displeasing the Pentagon - know there are many unanswered questions in the Jill Metzger mess.
With cowardly Secretary of Defense Robert Gates looking the other way, the alleged USAF "leadership" think they have succeeded in covering-up one of the most shameful scandals in Air Force history. Think again, generals. This story is far from over. Even if the "mainstream media," frightened into silence by fear of being labeled "politically-incorrect" refuse to expose this outrage, we will. No matter how long it takes.
Count on it.
WILL "DISABLED" JILL FEED HER EGO AND RUN IN THIS YEAR'S MARATHON?
When MilitaryCorruption.com first got the tip that Metzger was planning to run in the upcoming 2007 Air Force Marathon at Dayton, Ohio, even we were shocked. What if she wins, we wondered? What would she tell the media? "No problem, guys. My 'disability' is mental, not physical."
How would that go over with the hundreds of wounded and genuinely disabled vets in VA hospitals all over America? How about former Army paratrooper Jim Wallace in Maine? The 74 year-old "atomic vet" doesn't get a dime from the Veterans Administration despite a letter from one of the top VA doctors saying his multiple cancers are "service-connected."
One would like to think Jill would simply fade away into obscurity, glad that she was so well taken care of. A male enlisted man who did what she did would not be treated so kindly. Scoring a $3000-a-month tax-free pension for PTSD "disability" at age 34 - this includes FREE medical care for life - is quite a "bennie" for someone who, if they'd been not so well connected, might have faced a court-martial instead.
Why not just add up all that loot and count yourself the luckiest 12-year active duty veteran in the U.S. military? No, Jill has a huge ego. As a two-time winner of the Air Force Marathon, she wants to win a third time. Maybe she will. But apparently she's oblivious to how her participation in such a strenuous - mental and physical - competition would look to the peons in the Air Force who don't have her considerable clout and connections.
A MilitaryCorruption.com reporter tried to check on Jill's status with the Marathon staff and was shuffled off to the PAO office. There, a voice-mail recording played all day. It seems the public affairs officer was "out" but would "return" your call if you left a message. Want to bet he would get back to us anytime soon?
We would hope the Dayton DAILY NEWS, the Associated Press, WHIO-TV and other local media would at least dare to ask Metzger if she felt deserving of such a lucrative "disability" pension while war veterans with arms and legs shot off spend years fighting the bureaucracy to reach a 100% rating. We'd want to think they'd have the courage to do that, but we are less than sure of it.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Whatever happened to STARS & STRIPES and their ace reporter Nancy Montgomery? They started to cover the Metzger mess at first, and then went AWOL. Certainly they could have quoted us. We have been consistently correct about this case from the beginning and have dug up much information that otherwise would have been hidden from the public. How about it, Nancy? And this time, please give our editor-in-chief his proper earned retired rank. A combat veteran and field-grade officer shouldn't be referred to as if he were a civilian, don't you think? You've been around long enough to know that. It's called r-e-s-p-e-c-t and "proper military courtesy."]
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