Tragedy at Menwith: Dwight Bullard - Too Lazy to Council Subordinates...

Just a small update with this email...

I'm attaching two copies of the counseling that 1LT Bullard attempted to give to me while recommending me for UCMJ.

The incident was silly. I had decorated our work section for the Christmas holiday, something I've done every year in the military, as a way of establishing a tiny bit of morale with the troops.

Dwight Bullard and his cronies came in one morning and started complaining that a General (Maj. Gen. John DeFreitas - INSCOM Commander) was coming to visit and that all the decorations had to be taken down because they felt that he thought the decorations would be unprofessional.

Naturally, I disagreed. I thought the General would appreciate the fact that we cared enough for our troops to make them feel at home during the holiday season as best we could. LT Bullard and Mike Bolden, the section supervisor, had agreed only a week before.

Now, however, faced with the fact that the General was coming to visit, both LT Bullard and Mike reversed their positions, and were arguing with the soldiers and myself that everything had to be taken down. Never mind that this discussion should have taken place in private, not yelled to every operator in the work section.

We settled on an agreement. I would move the decorations to a less obvious location, where they wouldn't be so distracting to the visiting General. I agreed with this, and moved the tree behind a cabinet about four feet away from it's previous location in the middle of the hallway.

I left for the day, as it was the end of my shift. When I returned with my fellow soldiers for the next days shift, all of our decorations had disappeared, and the previous shift was angry because LT Bullard and Mike Bolden had made them take down all of our decorations.

I talked to my supervisor, Annette Wilson about this. Annette was an outstanding NSA Leader, who had recently stepped down from her position as watch supervisor, to take charge of our tiny little section until her tour of duty was over. She was stern, fair, and one of the only real leaders in the political nightmare that was Menwith Hill.

I was very concerned about the decorations, which were valued at around $1500, and a lot of which was personal property from different soldiers, some of which had been in their family for generations. When I talked to Annette about recovering the missing items, she suggested that Lt. Bullard had probably placed them in (Division Supervisor) Kevin Hay's office.

So, I went back to the office, with Annette, to recover the items. I asked Annette if I could redecorate now that the General had left, and she said I should probably wait until Lt. Bullard and Mike had regiven their approval.

Annette had a better idea. In the meantime, she thought it would be kind of funny and cute, if we decorated the Christmas tree and left it in Kevin Hay's office as a surprise when he arrived back from his holiday. Kevin and Annette were good friends, and she knew he would find it hilarious.

The next day, I was serving as interim platoon sergeant and doing some military paperwork on my off time. I passed Dwight Bullard's office, and he was smirking and asked about the Christmas tree. Mike Bolden was also their and said that he thought it was the funniest thing he'd seen in a long time. Lt. Bullard was halfway laughing, but also said that I shouldn't have "broken in" to Kevin Hay's office. It was weird the way he talked...he was acting like it was okay and he thought it was funny, but then he finished every sentence with "...we're gonna have to talk about this later..."

Later happened to be when Lt. Bullard came out to watch floor and started yelling at my in front of my subordinates, as documented in my previous email. As I said, Lt. Bullard never took the time to sit down with me and listen to the fact that Annette had given me permission to retrieve the Christmas tree. He was only interested in saving his career and becoming a part the witch hunt...

Below is a copy of Lt. Bullard's noncounselling...