The Plan

Just thought I would post a picture of the two-faced piece of shit known as Dwight Bullard, who they put in charge of the 404th MI Company at Menwith Hill.

And, take a moment to tell you how this fight started, and why it continues.

And a little bit about who I am.

Most everyone has figured out by now that I wasn't actually in the military...I've only been to the states on holiday maybe twice in the last few decades. Menwith Hill soldiers all over myspace were trying to hunt down my sources. (I don't have an account...too dim to figure that stuff out. My grandson had to set this up for me!) But I did have access to a lot of information from those who were. I was a fly on the wall. An underpaid fly on the wall.

You bloody Americans get way too much money to sit in front of a computer all day. I did the same job for damn near minimum wage!

Most of the documentation I plan on posting here comes from about six different sources who were former soldiers of Menwith Hill, the majority of which were enlisted.

Some of of it was obtained through retired soldiers with access to FOIA (that's an american term?), and some of it comes from soldiers themselves who I keep in touch with directly.

I've been recieving more and more information as the site grows, and I hope to post some of those items too...keep sending them in soldiers. Your identities are protected here. I absolutely promise. Send your stories in to: thearmylies@gmail.com

I must state that I really can not vouch for accuracy of the information.

The beauty of the internet is that is an open forum, and in fact I could be posting absolute dribble.

I think the preponderance of evidence and testimony from these soldiers and former soldiers will be enlightening though, hopefully to the senior commanders and the general media.

Why did I take an interest?

A young senior airman walked into my cubicle one day.

She said that her army friend had taken her into their orderly room, and she said it felt terrifying just to be standing there.

It was like everyone in the room was going to kill each other. She could literally feel the tension.

So, I poked, and I prodded. I spoke to soldiers, observed the whole thing from a distance.

It's really quite a remarkable story.

For a couple years now I've maintained my silence. One reason was a promise I made to one of the soldiers, (the young SSG you've been reading about), to keep quiet until he left.

Another was my own pending retirement.

But, time wore on, and it began to wear on me. I became pretty brassed off. It's been my hobby...tracking this stuff down.

Dwight Bullard's promotion to Company Commander was the final straw for me. Granted, his name was only mentioned in a couple of the IG reports...it's the fact that he stabbed so many of his soldiers in the back during such a critical situation that bothers me.

Anyone who found themselves staring at the same stack of documents in front of them that I have, would undoubtedly believe that something horrible and unethical did happen at this base.

It's something that I believe tears at the very heart and fiber of the American philosphy, and it's militaristic way of life. It's all about a slow diffusion of ethics in a military command.

It starts with the small transgressions...senior leadership like SFC Rebekah James spreading her legs for junior enlisted soldiers like SPC Anderson, who was later promoted to SGT.

Then it gets a little more outrageous...men like SSG David Young getting shagged in the ass by junior enlisted PFC's in the Marine Corps.

Then you find out it's all part of a larger problem, with company commanders like CPT Paul Riley making out with his orderly room clerk SPC Catino, who gets promoted to SGT, and selected for promotion to SSG a few months later.

Then you find out an alcholic First Sergeant Tommey Riley tries to cover it all up by demoting soldiers, sending them to mental health, telling his whole company to stop "spreading rumours".

Then you find honest men like Dwight Bullard sliding down that slippery slope...until they join in on the bullying of culture of fear that pervades Menwith Hill. The senior leadership withdraws itself from it's soldiers. Men like SFC Dochterman, SFC McClain, and Dwight Bullard form gangs to intimidate anyone who comes forward to the appropriate authorities.

The senior command feigns igorance. The military JAG is on the main continent, as is the next level of command. The Inspector General spends two years investigating with no result.

And it ends, with two soldiers attempting suicide. Two seperate attempts.

To date the leadership at Menwith Hill has done nothing to change this army command, except promote the leaders who committed these transgressions in the first place, or allow them to retire with full military pensions.

There are a lot more sources, but the six I've worked closely with are the most detailed, and connected in a way.

Some of you think the idea of an outsider exposing all of these "secrets" at Menwith Hill is immature, unprofessional, and possibly illegal.

To which I would say, I'm just a silly old sod who really doesn't give a fuck what any of these people think anymore. All I have to do is sit around all day in front of my computer on the beach sipping wine and watching the younger girls walk by. Old age is wonderfully boring.

Maybe once this is off my chest, I'll find something better to do with my life.

I plan on writing all of the soldiers stories as first person blogs, because it keeps everyone more anonymous, and because a lot of my sources (one in particular I like because it tells the story of an entire military career) are first person perspectives.

So, I do offer a disclaimer that about 10% of this tale is completely fiction, namely to protect all of those involved. Some of it is reprinted emails, or IG complaints, with the names removed, changed, etc.

It's a narrative, a very intriguing narrative of a dark period for the military at a government protected american institution, and it's descent into chaos.

I think if you look very deeply, at the other 90%, you will reach the same conclusions as this old sod. Something very uncouth happened here, and the american army at Menwith Hill has done their very best to make sure that no one ever finds out.