The GI Rights Hotline

Call The Hotline ► fdsj.nl/qs-gi-r... | Being opposed to war doesn’t mean that Quakers aren’t supportive of soldiers. As Lenore Yarger puts it, “military members are also victims of war in their own way.”
This week, we team up with Quaker House to bring you the story of the GI Rights Hotline, a resource for servicemembers and potential recruits to help them fully understand their rights.
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Steve Woolford: Friends, or Quakers, believe that God is present in everyone, and they believe in the Christian value of loving the enemies. And in Quaker House, people are trying to live that out in a way that comes to terms to being in the middle of a warmaking society, and what does it mean to love our enemies?
The GI Rights Hotline
Lenore Yarger: My name is Lenore Yarger, and I’m a counselor with Quaker House and the G.I. Rights Hotline.
Steve Woolford: I’m Steve Woolford and I’m also a counselor with Quaker House and the G.I. Rights Hotline.
Lenore Yarger: Quaker House is a nonprofit located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to Fort Bragg. We have many different programs, and one of them is to counsel people through the G.I. Rights hotline. We also have a domestic violence counseling service for survivors of military domestic violence. And we also speak out against drone warfare and torture and other aspects of war, publicly.
The G.I. Rights Hotline offers
free, accurate, non-directive information
about issues of conscience, discharge,
medical, psychological and other regulations.
Steve Woolford: The G.I. Rights Hotline is a collection of groups that have done counseling for people in the military. Service members and their families can call our toll-free number and get free information about a wide range of issues.
Lenore Yarger: And a good number of people who call the hotline I think are actually questioning their role in the military and are actually seeking discharge to get out of the military, but there’s also people who have grievances and complaints and they need help working through the proper procedures to get help with a particular issue. We also deal with people who are AWOL: Absent Without leave, and are seeking to resolve their situations.
Steve Woolford: Part of the strength of the information we have is that a number of counselors have been handling cases for years, and we’re able to give people a pretty good idea of what are likely outcomes because we’ve just seen so many cases. We know what the regulations say. A lot of times we talk to commands about situations and how they handle them. We’re getting a lot of information that allows us to give people a pretty clear idea of how things will be handled or what strategies will be most effective or what kinds of things are going to work best.
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