To this day the list continues to grow.The Unrestricted Coast Guard Chronicles (UCGC) are a series of bio epics of interesting and sometimes strange events in the lives of Coast Guard personnel. This is the Case of CDR Benjamin Strickland.
This is a must read for all right thinking Americans, and people of goodwill everywhere.
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Get the full story. The Case of Commander Benjamin Strickland, 114 pages. All pictures are full color. Many distinguished senior officers are being purged from all branches of the military services. To this day the list continues to grow.
On June 26, 2015 Commander Benjamin F. Strickland departed on Terminal Leave pending Retirement from the U. S. Coast Guard. This Unrestricted Coast Guard Chronicle (Volume 01, Number 01) was designed to coincide with that date.
He will not be forgotten. His name will live on in the
Chronicles of Coast Guard History. His story will forever be told around the
Forecastle, at the camp fires, and in the restaurants and bars where retired
service members gather to reminisce about life in the Nation’s oldest
continuous seagoing armed force, the U. S. Coast Guard.
His brilliant and distinguished career was brought to
an abrupt halt for no explicable or rational reason, except that he did his job
as he was required to do it. In doing so he became a victim.
No good deed goes unpunished. This means that life is
unfair and people can do or try to do good things and still end up in a lot of
trouble. Bad things happen to good people.
Terrible and unexpected things happened to CDR Strickland.
.
Power was misused; discretion was abused; authority was exceeded;
rights were trampled; resources were mismanaged; and, our posterity has
been
neglected.
We are at the mercy of the powers that be, and they appear to be
devoid of all mercy. Heaven help us; and, God Bless America.
This is BIG! This is historical. This is a Case of First Impression. Maybe this is not the first time something like this has happened in the Coast Guard; but, this is the first time it has been thoroughly documented. This Case and this Book are the result of hundreds of man-hours of research, eye witness interviews, and analysis. The actual players in this tragedy were painstakingly interviewed and interviewed again. The facts were checked and re-checked. The facts are absolutely accurate and indisputable. The Time Line is accurate right down to the day, the minute and hour.
Two people can understand and analyze the same facts and come to different conclusions. We are all different in some ways. We are what we were then and when and where our characters and personalities were shaped; BUT, we cannot dispute the FACTS.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts. The Facts are absolute. They are black or white; they cannot be a dirty shade of grey. Not one shade , nor fifty shades of grey.
This is a piece of living history. What price can you put on History? We are living in History, at a pivotal moment in history. Owning this book, is like taking a "selfie" in the Flow Of Living History. Imagine being able to capture yourself at The March on Washington, The Collapse of the Berlin Wall, at The WTC on 9/11, or some other historic event that took on epic proportions as time went by.
How would you be able to describe it to your children and get the facts right? How else would you be able to set the stage and get the passions and the emotions just right to explain and to understand what was happening in the country and the world at this crucial time in our history?
This Book captures it. It hits the nail right on the head. It nails it dead center. There has never been a Ben Strickland in the Coast Guard Officer Corps, and there will never be again. What happened here will probably never again be repeated, partially because it was recorded and exposed. Just like the first time a Coast Guard Academy cadet was court-martialed (Cadet Webster Smith). It too will never happen again. The book about that case exposed the fallacy, and the stupidity, and the utter futility of it.
The Case of CDR Benjamin Strickland will go down in history as being one of a kind, unique. The story will be told again and again. Rumors will abound. People will embellish. But, if you have the book, you have the facts, the Truth, the piece of living History. It is eternal. It will live in infamy. How can you put a price on that?
This is BIG! This is historical. This is a Case of First Impression. Maybe this is not the first time something like this has happened in the Coast Guard; but, this is the first time it has been thoroughly documented. This Case and this Book are the result of hundreds of man-hours of research, eye witness interviews, and analysis. The actual players in this tragedy were painstakingly interviewed and interviewed again. The facts were checked and re-checked. The facts are absolutely accurate and indisputable. The Time Line is accurate right down to the day, the minute and hour.
Two people can understand and analyze the same facts and come to different conclusions. We are all different in some ways. We are what we were then and when and where our characters and personalities were shaped; BUT, we cannot dispute the FACTS.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts. The Facts are absolute. They are black or white; they cannot be a dirty shade of grey. Not one shade , nor fifty shades of grey.
This is a piece of living history. What price can you put on History? We are living in History, at a pivotal moment in history. Owning this book, is like taking a "selfie" in the Flow Of Living History. Imagine being able to capture yourself at The March on Washington, The Collapse of the Berlin Wall, at The WTC on 9/11, or some other historic event that took on epic proportions as time went by.
How would you be able to describe it to your children and get the facts right? How else would you be able to set the stage and get the passions and the emotions just right to explain and to understand what was happening in the country and the world at this crucial time in our history?
This Book captures it. It hits the nail right on the head. It nails it dead center. There has never been a Ben Strickland in the Coast Guard Officer Corps, and there will never be again. What happened here will probably never again be repeated, partially because it was recorded and exposed. Just like the first time a Coast Guard Academy cadet was court-martialed (Cadet Webster Smith). It too will never happen again. The book about that case exposed the fallacy, and the stupidity, and the utter futility of it.
The Case of CDR Benjamin Strickland will go down in history as being one of a kind, unique. The story will be told again and again. Rumors will abound. People will embellish. But, if you have the book, you have the facts, the Truth, the piece of living History. It is eternal. It will live in infamy. How can you put a price on that?
This Book was written for "posterity" and not for profit.
ReplyDeleteTom Hecht said: Yes sir, sexual assault and sexual based inappropriate behaviour are abhorrent and go against the Coast Guard Core Values. They were problems in the Coast Guard I served in and apparently they still happen.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it however that a Commander, Executive Officer, while acting CO of a major cutter, was eventually was given an OER by a new CO stating he was the worst O-5 the Captain ever met and as such, denied a set of orders that he was uniquely qualifed for and assigned to a junior officer's billet at CGHQ? It seems like someone went way out of their way to punish CDR Benjamin Strickland for making sure yet another sexual assault case wasn't swept under the table and for questioning the mishandling of the case by the CGIS. He was told that he needed to adjust his beliefs to the Coast Guard Values. By his actions I see that CDR Strickland followed the Core Values to the letter by reporting and staying with the investigation to make sure it was handled properly.
If perception is reality, as the banner read in the "Women in the Coast Guard's Study Group at CGHQ in the late 1980s said - the perception is that CDR Strickland was deliberately punished for his actions regarding the sexual assault reporting. I think CGIS went overboard and abused their power trying to find anything that could be used to generate something negative about him.