Connie Redman:  

in Stuttgart West Germany with my parents. I thought I was supposed to be on vacation! But with a lot of perserverance and cursing at the Heidelberg Civilian Personnel Office, I was hired by Harry Diamond Laboratories out of Adelphia, Maryland as a Secretary. Met some wonderful folks. After a year it was time to give up my vacation and return to the real world - it took a while, but I was re-hired in my old job at the Family Practice Clinic and stayed there for about 10 years before I had finally had enough BS from Dr Hoffer and found myself a nice new home in Preventive Medicine where I wasn't accused of wrong doing when someone else was the doer! I sat back and watched Dr Hoffer and then his successor ruin the Family Practice Residency Program that we had at Fort Ord. They ran it into the ground and we lost our credentialing with UC San Francisco. I had an enjoyable 3 years in Preventive Medicine learning a whole new area of medicine, and lost a wonderful, sensitive co-worker in JoAnn Kent who took her own beautiful life in 1989. It 1990, I did a lateral transfer to the Flight Surgeon - Wow - I finally made it. The job of my dreams. To be with my "buddies" throughtout the day. My dream job ended suddenly when Uncle Sam made the unfortunate decision to close Fort Ord and deactivate the 7th ID. We closed our office on 26 July 1993 and I moved over to the Presidio of Monterey Health Clinic as a "detailed" employee for 90 days. At the end of 90 days I was to be ableto "apply" to keep my own job. Well, before that happened, I was informed that I was being replaced by someone who did not out-ranked me, someone who was not even career status. So I sat in an empty office in the Outpatient Clinic/ER and helped the last remaining Flight Surgeon, Dr David Ramos when he needed admin assistance on flight physcials. In October 1993, I visited Edwards AFB and submitted an application and was hired in their Flight Surgeon's Office to begin work on 27 Dec 1993. This was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I have regretted this move every day of the almost 10 years that I have been here, and I've been working hard to try to find a job anywhere in Northern California, as long as it is far, far away from the Air Force and their strange and sometimes seemingly illegal and fraudulent actions. I want to distance myself from the doings in this place as soon as possible. My final job beginning 28 Dec 2004 was with the Veterans Administration working in a Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Monterey CA - located on the former Fort Ord Army installation. It was wonderful being back and seeing former friends and former co-workers. I just love listening to our older Veterans tell their stories and wish that we can get our younger Veterans to open up. But, internal strife and a Supervisor with "favorites" was causing me so much stress that it began affecting my health. Medical retirements take too long, so I just said "Hasta la BYE-BYE" and took the money and ran.