Officers shouldn’t live in housing with almost all enlisted personnel. I am not willing to compromise between integrity and safety and I shouldn’t have to. This put me and my family at risk of retaliation because I will have to live right next to them with this proposed housing. As an officer, if I see drug use or other illegal activity in enlisted housing, I have to report it. A few tours ago, an enlisted housing unit had two gangs attacking each other with hatchets and other weapons over competing drug turf. Living with enlisted puts my family and myself in a compromising position. If I see the enlisted breaking the law or acting in an inappropriate way, I am required at all times to react and correct the problem or situation. Integrity: As a Naval officer, I have integrity. We need to be in actual officer housing surrounded by other officer families so my family and I get actual support and are not completely isolated and trapped by ourselves. This proposed housing is isolating our family during a vulnerable time when we are transitioning overseas and don’t have any support. I need to make friends with other officers. My wife needs to make friends with other officers’ wives. My children need to make friends with other officer children. This proposed housing assignment is cutting of the support that my family needs during this overseas assignment and with COVID. Other officer families will not want to visit us because our family lives in enlisted housing. We will not have the support that a normal officer family should have to succeed. My family and I will be isolated in the building that I am living in. As an officer I cannot fraternize with the enlisted. Its’s away from all the other officers at my command that could support me. The almost entire enlisted building that was proposed is in the back of Ikego isolated away from any support for me and my family. Support: It is important when overseas to have support from your community. This enlisted housing will increase the risk to my family and mentally cause my family and I to be worried and unhappy due to safety. Safety has huge psychological impact on quality of life. Officers are much more respectable and theses type of deviant activities are incredibly rare compared to deviant activities of enlisted being common place. My family should be safe in housing that is with officers. They are prime targets to be victims for these enlisted deviant activities. I have a good-looking family, a wife and two daughters age 3 and 4. This will greatly affect my mental state at work to always be worrying about my family. I want to feel safe for my family every time I leave to work. Housing with enlisted greatly increases the risk to my family. There are often drunk and often hostile sailors hanging around enlisted housing. I also have had to deal with man drug and alcohol related problems. I personally had to deal with an enlisted child molester as my subordinate. There are also sexual assaults and other perverts. There is a lot of crime, violent actions, drug use and alcoholism that happens in enlisted housing. Safety: I have been an investigative officer and superior officer to many deviant enlisted sailors.
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