Scott DeLuzio:    00:00:03    Thanks for tuning in to the Drive On Podcast, where we talk about issues affecting veterans after they get out of the military. Before we get started, I’d like to ask a favor if you haven’t done so already, please rate and review the show on Apple podcasts. If you’ve already done that, thank you. These ratings help the show get discovered so it can reach a wider audience. And while you’re there click the subscribe button so that you get notified of new episodes as soon as they come out. If you don’t use Apple podcasts, you can visit DriveOnPodcast.com/subscribe to find other ways of subscribing, including our email list. I’m your host, Scott DeLuzio and now let’s get on with the show. Hey everybody, today my guest is Pan Phyu and Pan is a sister of Tey Phyu. Before we get into this interview and talk about the situation that we’re going to talk about here in this interview, I wanted to just let listeners know that the things that we’ll be talking about will be things like sexual assault and mental health traumas that come along with that, which is at the heart of the situation that we’re going to be talking about here.  

Scott DeLuzio:    00:01:10    I just wanted to make sure everyone had that information upfront. So that way, if there are any triggers, you can handle that appropriately on your end. So, why don’t we jump into this? Welcome to the show Pan; could you tell us a little bit about your sister’s case and some of the history, the background surrounding it, for anyone who might not be familiar with it?  

Pan Phyu:    00:01:33    Yes, yes, of course. So my sister, Tey Phuy she sits at the Navy consolidated brig and her crime is basically she had a mental breakdown and the law enforcement that arrested her that night did not come to the same consensus. The United States Marine Corps is allegedly charging her with attempted murder. And so my sister, as far as backstory, she’s gone through a lot of serious trauma. The Marine Corps is aware of it. And even in this case, they do acknowledge it, but they do not seem to understand the ramifications of her trauma and how long it persisted over the years and the things that she has done to help herself. In my opinion, it led to her breakdown. And so, she lost rank. She had heavy hits with her reputation and the system that we’re talking about, the sexual assault programs, implemented in the DOD, the Navy, the Marine Corps;  

Pan Phyu:    00:02:46    It seems as if they have failed to do their job. And what I’m talking about more specifically for Tay is that her duty form 2910, which is used to as a victim preference statement, it was never in the defense sexual assault incident database. And so that’s a huge violation. And not only that, my sister currently is facing unjust persecution. Her defense team is not able to pursue access channels or avenues to present their defense. And so, that’s not even the worst of it. The worst is that my sister has been subjected to many human rights violations, and there has been advocacy for her mental health and for access for her to acquire adequate mental health. And yet it’s not, it’s falling on deaf ears and I really need elected officials to be able to advocate for her, at the bare minimum, her service members rights.  

Scott DeLuzio:    00:03:56    Right. So, so going back to the original situation that kind of prompted all of this, the sexual assault that took place, that kind of led her down this road of deteriorating, mental health and her mental state was affected.. And I think, understandably so, from all of this, and has anything happened with  that particular case? Not the current...