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VA employee is strong-armed into silence after voicing concerns

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Dan Martin — veteran of the United States Navy from 1985 to 1991, is an employee of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. After his service in the Navy, he attended Purdue and graduated with his degree in electrical engineering. From there, he went to Indiana Wesleyan for his MBA, where he also worked for the Indiana National Guard. It was then that he realized how much he had loved the military and the people in it, and like many veterans who choose to serve again in a new capacity, he applied for a position within the VA. Eventually he found an opening and was brought on-board. He worked alongside other VA employees to serve veterans in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana.

Fast forward several years, and Martin has been shuffled into a corner office of the North Indiana VA where he is not allowed any responsibility. He can talk all he wants, though it is to no avail — they won’t fire him and they won’t allow him any level of responsibility. He could quit, but quitting would mean that his voice of dissent, though small in the massive bureaucracy that is the VA, would be snuffed out entirely. Martin says that he won’t allow that.

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  • Luke Ryan

    He has reached out to several non-profits and third party organizations. They are helping him, but the VA officials are stalling endlessly. Bureaucracy can be used by these people to just make these investigations go on for years and years until someone quits. It’s a war of attrition, really.
    And this is actually super common. It’s an easy way for these corrupt guys to keep their VA career going while they continue operations as usual.

  • Luke Ryan

    Thanks for reading! I hope it turns a couple heads

  • tim e

    So where is the AIB’s oversight isnt the VA IG involved ? Mr. Martin should have gone outside the VA and reached out to the FBI’s Indianapolis field office and let them run with this. Has he contacted his congressional representative and senators? Having an outside entity have a look is usually the most effective remedy for this type of BS.

  • Susan H

    Luke, this is an enormously important article. Thank you.

  • Luke Ryan

    Absolutely, and unfortunately his story is one of many.