FEATURED INBOX POST – MRFF Intervention for Marines

Published On: July 30, 2015|Categories: MRFF's Inbox, News|1 Comment|

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Mr. Weinstein,

-OK this note of thanks you is for all Marines everywhere so they can know what to do when it happens to them. Because it will even though I never thought it would to me and my friends.

Sir,

wanted to thank you and the MRFF active duty rep. (USMC officer’s name and rank withheld) here at (USMC base name withheld) for helping me and another dozen Marines when we were all forced to confront an unacceptable religious matter earlier this month from our commander (USMC officer’s name, rank and title/MOS withheld).

What happened is that our commander who always mentions that he’s “a Christian” (USMC officer’s name and rank withheld) announced in front of our whole (USMC unit name withheld) on  _ July 15 (full date withheld) that he would be convening a  “twice weekly Marines bible study” for those of our (USMC unit name withheld) “interested in sharing fellowship”. He told us it was to “promote unit togetherness” or something like. He also said it was “optional”. Yeah right. A lot of us were shocked by this. Others thought it was great. There was arguing for a few days after it happened. Even the spouses got into it. No “togetherness”.

 Let me just say up front that I am not what you would call a very religious but my dog tags say Christian. The others MRFF helped here are mostly Christians. 2 nonbelievers and one Muslim Marine.

 Wanted to thank you for advising us what to do. My fellow Marines (names and ranks withheld) and me went to talk about how upset we all were with (senior USMC NCO’s name, rank and title/MOS withheld) who always told us we can always go to him with problems. He is the one who told us about the MRFF. He know our commander very well. He said if we confronted our commander it would not sit well at all. He emphasized the “at all”. He himself even did not want to do it. And he is a (number withheld) times (USMC combat award and citation name withheld) winner and is looked up to by many. He gave us the MRFF contact info. Told us its the best way.

So next we called Mr. Weinstein and got him on the phone first try. He right away got us in touch with the MRFF rep. here at (USMC base name withheld). Together they contacted the (USMC rank and title/MOS withheld) who is 2 levels above our commander and explained all of this messed up stuff about our commanders “Marines bible study”.

 It was the next day after that that (USMC officer’s name and rank withheld) called a (USMC unit name withheld) meeting and sort of kind of apologized about this. His face was red and he told us that we should have come to him or our (USMC subordinate unit name withheld) leaders about this first. Yeah right. BS! We felt that he was trying to shift the blame from him to us. It was clear that he got his ass chewed. And he deserved it. We are not his commander. He is our commander and not visa versa.. How else are we supposed to teach him a lesson about all of this religion stuff he constantly says to us like its official and all? Without him getting back at us?

He said that the bible study which started this fight was cancelled and that religious stuff for our (USMC unit name withheld) would be handled by the Navy chaplains here at (USMC base name withheld). Afterwards some of our fellow Marines said they were going to start their own bible studies. We told them to peace out. And that that was all good unless they did the same thing as our commander did with those Marines under them. There is still anger in our unit about this and its effected morale but it needed to be done. No regrets for standing up to him.

Anyways thank you to all of you at the MRFF and especially to Mr. Weinstein and (USMC/MRFF representative’s/officer’s name and rank withheld) for all they did to help us out from this messed up stuff from our commander. There would have been no way we would have gotten this fixed without you guys. Your awesome! We’ll call the MRFF again if and when.

Semper Fi

(Active duty USMC Jr. NCOs name, rank, title/MOS, unit and base all withheld)

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  1. Yeshua Warrior August 4, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    I find it interesting that this Marine has “Christian” on his dog tags when he says he is not very religious. It would be better that he have agnostic on his dog tags, for the term Christian is reserved for those who have made a commitment in their heart and have accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior and have become as scripture says “born again” and have a vibrant and growing relationship to Christ. This Marine is Christian in name only, most likely the same could be said of the so called 90% of “Christians” that MRFF touts they say they support. I would say that those 90% of those so called Christians that MRFF supports whether they be Methodist, Lutheran, Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, etc or Mormon (who are not really Christians, but are part of a cult) have had no born again experience or have a vibrant growing relationship with Christ. Last of all, any of these “Christians” say that they support the gay agenda and abortion cannot be Christians at all, for scripture forbids both in the strongest terms!!

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