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Monday Evening, May 6, 2024

JEWISH FORMER AIRMAN RECOUNTS

HORRIFIC ANTISEMITIC TORMENT THEY

FACED WHILE SERVING; URGES CURRENT

SERVICE MEMBERS TO TURN TO MRFF



The operations NCO frequently hounded me and Muslim service members about our religions. It got so bad that at group events they would cook pork products and he would make a point to drop pork sausages on my plate while I was eating. They even made death threats to me that if we ever got into a fire fight, I would take a friendly fired round in the back of my skull. They weren't joking. The commander even stated if I would convert, I could

enjoy eating the pork they so loved. ...”


I had no top-cover back in the day and it was either apologize or separate from the service. But all of you in the armed forces

now are most fortunate to actually have powerful top-cover with the advent of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s forceful and successful advocacy.”


— Jewish former airman and current MRFF client

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E-mail from Jewish former airman and current MRFF client recounting the heinous antisemitic abuse

they faced at the hands of Christian superiors and urging current service members to turn to MRFF


“Antisemitic discrimination in the ranks

of the services now and then”


From: (Former military member and current MRFF client's e-mail address withheld)

Subject: Antisemitic discrimination in the ranks of the services now and then

Date: May 5, 2024 at 7:40:03 PM MDT

To: Mikey Weinstein <mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org>


As a military member there are challenges we must face as Jews which are, in these times, unimaginable; despite the Constitution, Presidential Directives, U.S. Laws, and Military Regulations affirming our religious freedoms. 


When I was a young enlisted service member I did not know Mikey Weinstein and did not know I could turn to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for support when being harassed. You now have that option and I thank him for creating an opportunity for us to have resolution with illegal religious persecution and discrimination. 


The laws simply don't exist for us because antisemitic leaders won't enforce them. 


I was on a U.S. Air Force security forces team before commissioning which often was tasked with Presidential and Foreign Head of State, even Pope security. The operations NCO frequently hounded me and Muslim service members about our religions. It got so bad that at group events they would cook pork products and he would make a point to drop pork sausages on my plate while I was eating. They even made death threats to me that if we ever got into a fire fight, I would take a friendly fired round in the back of my skull. They weren't joking. The commander even stated if I would convert, I could enjoy eating the pork they so loved.


I had an O-6 (full Colonel) Christian Chaplain leaving notes taped on my barracks room door stating I was part of a dying breed and I needed to come see him for salvation. When I filed an I.G. complaint against him, they turned the table on me and allowed me to stay in the military if I would apologize to him for trying to ruin his career just before his retirement. 


I had no top-cover back in the day and it was either apologize or separate from the service. But all of you in the armed forces now are most fortunate to actually have powerful top-cover with the advent of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s forceful and successful advocacy.


I was nominated for both the Airman's Medal in 199X for saving a runaway (jet fighter designation withheld) fighter and the crew chief inside and the Bronze Star in 19XX for stopping a damaged bomb from exploding on a packed fight line. My middle initial on my citation was listed as an (initial withheld) instead of an (initial withheld) and it was caught at the Pentagon. Major (name withheld) had just replaced LTC (name withheld) and made it very clear he was a born again Christian and openly stated if I wanted my awards amended so they could be approved or I wanted to get commissioned in the USAF, I must start attending his personal Christian Prayer Breakfasts he held in his conference room with senior leaders as the Commander of the (USAF unit designation withheld) Squadron headquarters in 199X and 199X. I was an Orthodox Jew and refused. 


Not only did he have both of my awards downgraded but he had performed an administrative reduction in grade from (rank title withheld) Sergeant to (lower rank title withheld) Sergeant and gave my stripe to a Christian soldier I worked with who was having self-induced hard times. Though I held both the Bronze Star and Airman's Medals I had well earned in combat and at the risk of my own life in my hands with their respective official military citations citing my actions, both were revoked and downgraded. 


The question becomes what is more important; one's integrity or advancing in the ranks after being wrongfully converted to Christianity under the never punished duress and oppression of my Christian military commanders?


(Former military member and current MRFF client's name and all other ID withheld)

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“Thank you to the MRFF from FORT RILEY, Kansas”


From: (Active Duty U.S. Army Officer’e E-mail Address Withheld)

Subject: Thank you to the MRFF from FORT RILEY, Kansas

Date: April 29, 2024 at 8:26:25 AM MDT

To: Mikey Weinstein mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org


To Mr. Weinstein and to the MRFF fighters:


My wife and I just wanted to very much thank all of you for getting that too obvious Christian Crusader imagery for this Thursday’s Nat’l Day of Prayer (NDP) breakfast taken down so quickly.


I am an active duty officer in the U.S. Army and we are also practicing Catholics. Every year we face the same dilemma as this NDP event has become a true litmus test for our Army leaders to figure out which of us supports their extremist Christian agenda and who doesn’t.

It just gets worse each year and especially this year with the election so close and the really bad tensions in our country. We experience it in the military as well and it just divides soldier against soldier.


Our family just wanted to thank all of you at the MRFF for moving so quickly and efficiently to force our many (unfortunately!) Fort Riley Christian extremists to pull that NDP image off of our official website.


I can tell you that there was much gnashing of teeth and major anger about your quick and sudden success here. You jacked up the senior command staff to adhere to your removal demands within just a very few hours of receiving it.


In fact as a personal witness to their reaction some of our leaders here in the 1st Infantry Division (1 ID) were actually “throwing things” in anger.


Good on you all @ the MRFF!


Thank you for all that you at the MRFF do to help our soldiers and fight those who would force their divisive view of their Christian faith upon those of us who are beneath them in our chain of command. Especially other Christians like our family. My wife and I would like to say “bless you all” for your outstanding service to our troopers.


(U.S. Army Officer’s name, rank, MOS, unit and installation all withheld)

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