Warrant officer rank still exist in all U.S. services except the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The Air Force stopped making appointments for WOs in 1959. The last Air Force warrant officer retired in 1980, 45 years ago.
Warrant officer rank is the pinnacle of a soldier’s career. They are highly respected and a role model to junior soldiers and officers. Unfortunately, the Army attacked one particular warrant officer, trying to sacrifice him on the alter of political correctness.
He asked that his name not be mentioned in the article, because he’s still looking for employment. Pardon us if we use the generic “John Doe” name.
CW2 John Doe is married with a 14-year-old stepdaughter. He was stationed on an Army base in North Carolina and received orders to be transferred to Ft. Irwin in sunny, but very broke California.
His 14-year-old stepdaughter was devastated upon hearing the news of the relocation. She understandably didn’t want to leave all her friends and familiar places. She vented her anger at her stepfather for being forced to give up all those things she held dear.
Taking a page from the play book of Washington D.C., the angry stepdaughter conjured up a plan to accuse CW2 John Doe of inappropriate sexual advances.
Upon hear this, the Army’s PC mafia swung into action. The Criminal Investigative Division of the Army (CID) jumped in with both feet. CID Special Agent Destiny Harris was assigned to investigate the alleged sexual misconduct by CW2 John Doe.
CW2 John Doe’s 14-year-old stepdaughter began to make new friends in California. One of those friends is the daughter of the CID Special Agent Destiny Harris. Yes, the same CID agent ordered to investigate John Doe the alleged sexual assault of his stepdaughter.
It gets even worse…
One weekend, three 14-year-old girls were invited to the CID agent’s private home for a “pajama party.” The three girls were comprised of John Doe’s stepdaughter, CID Agent Destiny Harris’s daughter and a third friend that all hung out together.
CID Special Agent Harris took it upon herself to get the 14-year-old girls liquored up by serving all three girls with alcohol.
Anyone hear alarm bells? What the hell was she thinking? Was CID Agent Harris using the investigative tactic “vino veritas” to get the truth from a 14-year-old girl? At 14-years-of-age, it doesn’t take much alcohol before they’re either asleep or dancing on the table with a lampshade on their heads.
“In vino veritas” is a Latin phrase which means, “in wine there is truth.” It suggests that people are more likely to reveal their true thoughts and feelings when under the influence of alcohol.
The phrase is often followed by “in aqua sanitas” which means “in water there is health,” implying a contrast between the truth revealed through wine and the health benefits of water. Unfortunately, Destiny probably gave the teenagers something like “Two Buck Chuck.”
For those who don’t know, “Two Buck Chuck” is a popular nickname for Trader Joe’s Charles Shaw wine, known for its rock-bottom price of $1.99 per bottle in California. It’s doubted that wine is still priced at a lousy two bucks.
Or, maybe CID Agent Harris wasn’t trying to sauce them up for the truth at all. Did CID Agent Destiny Harris just want to be known as the “cool mom” by the teenage party participants? That way, CID Agent Harris could hang with the teenagers, then giggle and talk all night long about boy’s parts.
CID VINDICTIVE POLICIES ON DISPLAY
Prior to CID’s investigative effort, CW2 John Doe had secured post-retirement employment back in North Carolina. His plan was to retire and try to make the family happy again by moving back to North Carolina.
But when CID agents found out about the job he had been hired for, they took it upon themselves to contact John Doe’s prospective employer to maliciously derail his employment plans.
CID agents took it upon themselves to advise John Doe’s prospective employer of the nature of the investigation. CID’s evil efforts were successful. CW2 John Doe was immediately notified by his prospective employer their offer of employment was withdraw where he was concerned.
CID agents apparently told John Doe’s prospective employer they were about to hire a child molester. The fact that it wasn’t true didn’t matter.
John Doe was terribly disappointed to say the least, but he embraced the philosophy that when people throw lemons at you, then you make lemonade. It was a major set back, but he decided to just move forward and look for another job.
This time, the military’s practice of titling and indexing ruined another job opportunity.
“Titling & Indexing” by law enforcement is a chronic problem. There are undoubtedly many cases where the practice of “Titling & Indexing” have ruined the lives of people falsely accused of domestic violence or some type of alleged sexual misconduct in the military.
Titling & Indexing invokes detrimental and lingering effects can last for years, decades or even a lifetime.
Example from the Navy; forty years after being convicted at a general court martial for fraternization in the naval reserves, a former Navy pilot still has difficulty finding employment. Most people don’t know it but a single count of fraternizing can get an officer a felony conviction and two years in prison.
But we digress…
In military investigations, “Titling” refers to a service member being named as a subject in a DoD Law Enforcement Agency (DoD LEA) report.
“Indexing” means that information about the investigation is entered into the Defense Central Index of Investigations (DCII), a database used for security and law enforcement purposes.
On 1 January 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act directed the Secretary of Defense to create a new policy and process to allow service members to appeal titling and indexing determinations because they were frequently harming people in the worst way by making them unemployable.
Specifically, the law directed the Secretary of Defense to create a process through which any person who was titled and indexed may request that their name, personal identifying information, and other personal information be either corrected or expunged.
The requirement for entering a service member into the CDII database is very low. And that’s a major problem given the vindictiveness of military commanders.
Service members can find themselves “titled” simply because an allegation was made. Even if CID pretended to investigate the mark of Cane would detrimentally affect the service member for the rest of his/her life.
Even those who have been cleared of any wrong doing, will still have the stigma of being the focus of allegations and a criminal investigation by the military. Most civilian employers would not be aware the service member had been cleared with no formal charges.
Most potential employers mistakenly interpret this data entry by the military as a conviction and move quickly to un-hire the person they just hired or offered a job to.
Consequently, a service member who has been titled will face difficulty obtaining any employment that requires a background check, obtaining a security clearance, or even attempting to purchase a firearm. Oh, and how about trying to rent a house or apartment… that goes out the window too.
WHY DID CID SUDDENLY CLEAR THE ACCUSED?
The CID investigation ultimately cleared CW2 John Doe. Was it because he was innocent, or was it because of the misconduct of this CID Agent?
As you can imagine, CW2 John Doe retired with sadness for the way he was treated by the military. An otherwise happy occasion was converted into a series of terrible memories.
The commanding general, CID and various people in the chain-of-command were formally notified of the CID agent’s misconduct. To our knowledge, it’s all been glossed over.
Fast forward to the present day. CW2 John Doe, now in retirement, continues to seek employment but most of the jobs he’s interested in require a background check and security clearance. All of those jobs go up in smoke when the future employer conducts the routine background check.
After advancing to the top of the list of hundreds of applicants for job attempt #2, his prospective employer conducted a routine background check on the final two applicants. During the background investigation process, the prospective employer learned of the Army CID investigation.
CW2 (Ret.) John Doe was immediately dropped from consideration. The second employer wanted nothing to do with a child molester, even though John Doe was totally innocent.
It was the immature 14-year old stepdaughter trying to get even with her stepfather who was the guilty party. She was guilty of making false accusations.
This is another example, in a long string of examples where a service member had been falsely accused, and through the diligent work of his legal counsel and others, the misconduct of those in the investigative process was brought forward.
To our knowledge nothing has been done to hold CID Special Agent Harris accountable for violating California law by aiding and abetting the delinquency of minors by supplying them with alcohol.
The Army, to our knowledge, hasn’t filed charges, or even written a reprimand for the gross misconduct of CID Special Agent Destiny Harris. Nor, as anyone been held accountable for entering in the titling and indexing information into the computer to destroy this man’s life.
Based in part due to the work of an advocacy organization, a Freedom of Information Act request was filed, specifically inquiring what actions were taken involving the misconduct of Agent Harris, and the following partial response was provided.
“….. In regard to your request for Law Enforcement Report (LER) 00078-2018-CID146-005518-6E, be advised, a search of the USACIDC file indexes revealed that an active investigation is in progress with undetermined completion date…..
This full denial, which is made on behalf of Major General David P. Glaser, Commander, USACIDC, the Initial Denial Authority for USACIDC records under the FOIA, may be appealed to the Secretary of the Army.”
If you did nothing wrong but transfer your bratty 14-year-old stepdaughter to California, your life could be ruined with the help of the corrupt Army CID.
There are procedures now available to service members to clear their military record of any Titling or Indexing, but that’s only if the military decides to remove their vindictive measures that brought them so much pleasure.
It’s recommend that service members who have been injured by an overzealous military judicial system to seek out the assistance of a qualified and competent attorney.
Links/References
DOD Instruction 5505.07 Titling & Indexing by DOD Law Enforcement Activities
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/550507p.pdf
https://home.army.mil/jackson/3316/9841/1865/Titling_and_Request_for_Amendment_to_DACID_Records.pdf
https://www.ucmj-defender.com/law-enforcements-revenge-in-military-justice/
