Well, i’m officially pissed off. The army has decided that I am medically unfit to continue to serve so they are discharging me. I mean i’ve been telling them for 3 years that my leg was too fucked for this job but they kept me in till finally, just before christmas they decide to tell me that I have to have my shit packed, my house moved, my life started anew as of the 2nd of March 2006…

Now, in my honest opinion, that sucks donkey balls. Great big syphillis infested, black plague carrying, gangrenous donkey balls.

If i had wanted to leave of my own volition they would have demanded 2 years notice before I tell them that I am even considering leaving then i would have to ask for permission to apply for the paperwork to start my discharge a year in advance. 6 months later if they agreed that I could ask to leave then I would have to write a discharge statement. If you are honest and up front and write that it has been hell and nothing but a growing ulcer in the pit of your stomach causing you endless mental torment at the hands of the sadisticly insane heirachy then you aren’t allowed to leave, but telling them how much you love the army and how great it has been even if that has clearly not been the case, gets you a possible ticket out. So by the time that you are actually out you have had 2 years in which to prepare for the transition back to the real world…
I have been given exactly 2 months… two whole months…

In these 2 months I have to apply for my compensation and recieve notice back on wether the army accepts liability. A process that usually takes up to 4 months. The compensation board itself is also rather humorous. The Army do not have an objective 3rd party to determine liability of injuries. The Army itself assign people to decide wether the army was liable, and wether to pay compensation. I also have to find a new house to live in because I live in an Army house. I also have to relocate my ADSL and Foxtel and fight for the Army to pay for the reconnection costs because they are forcefully ejecting me from the house that I was assuming that I would live in for quite some time. I also have to find a way to support myself, my wife and my child with no qualifications while I go back to tafe to study something [read: mechanical engineering]. I was told that the Army would be paying for 75% of my study costs regardless of wether they are liable or not. Turns out that was a lie. They will give me $4500 towards a short course ONLY if they admit liability. Fuckers. Then there are the army specific clearances and they are just a drawn out pain in the un-lubed sphincter…

I would continue but it’s late and I have to work tomorrow…

PS: I know he will never read this but here goes. To Captain Adam Gower. You are a low sickening man that in your quest for promotion and by issuing unlawful commands to me, have ruined my life and my body. Burn forever in hell and hope to god that I never see you again…

/rant