In support of Lt Col Victor Fehrenbach

DADT/Lt Choi/Fehrenbach posts/interviews

July 7, 2009

How did Lt Col Victor Fehrenbach skills as a USAF pilot suddenly change once his sexual orientation was known?

Did Commander in Chief Clinton lose his ability to lead once that girl crawled out from under the desk?

Consider the crime and the punishment:

A married Republican governor and once talked about potential commander in chief, who in front of the whole world chose to leave the country to commit adultery with his foreign adultress on Father’s Day – instead of spending it with his four sons and the woman he took a vow before God to honor and love until death and who, when he was caught, initially lied about it.

A 9-time decorated 18-year USAF fighter pilot with 400 hours of combat and 88 successful combat missions, whose personal life has nothing to do with what he does in the cockpit and whose coworkers weren’t aware until he spoke out in support of his unnecessarily discharged fellow servicemembers, who also volunteered to risk their life for that governor and his family and the Commander in Chief and his family

Who was told his existence in the workplace was inconsistent with good order, discipline and morale?

The decorated fighter pilot with an impeccable record who did not choose his sexual orientation or the man who intentionally chose to ignore his wedding vows and shame his entire family by intentionally committing adultery and engaging in sex acts that he had free will not to do?

Which of the men is able to fight his dismissal?

Which of the men will retire with a full pension?

Who has undoubtedly saved many Americans’ lives?

Who has never abandoned his post?

Whose career will effectively be ended because of something entirely unrelated to his stellar job performance?

Who is being discriminated against with full knowledge of the President of the United States?

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Lt Col Fehrenbach:

I find it immensely sad that your first inclination was to go without a fight. That a decorated combat veteran of 18 years – a man who willingly risked his life 88 separate times and had the skill to return 88 times – would have to face such a choice.

And it is unconscionable that the USAF would tell you your presence is ‘inconsistent with good order discipline and morale’ and that you weren’t worthy enough as a still active military man to wear your uniform to the White House to meet your commander in chief.

There is something so fundamentally wrong with what they are/have been doing to you that I can’t grasp how the man ultimately responsible can look you in the eye and tell you to just wait. That he sees no urgency in stopping the discharge of a pilot who is irreplaceable.

Please don’t give up.

Please fight for what you are owed – which at the very minimum is respect and gratitude for all you’ve done for our country.

As a civilian daughter of a WWII veteran, I am ashamed that they are willing to discount your worth for something that should have no bearing on anything and for 18 years did not.

Thank you for coming forward so we know who you are and what you have done to safeguard our freedoms. It’s criminal you are not awarded the same.