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People understand you and your brother went to Corio PS and Chanel College they don't understand how CRC got involved?! I didn't go to CRC I served with a lot of them and they had me and my brother horribly mixed up! My brother used to hit first and ask questions later he had been moved on from Corio PS Chanel College were thinking of doing the same when he was moved to CRC where it stopped I believe. That's not what they say it didn't stop there apparently!

Why didn't you go with your brother to CRC?! I was doing the VCE it's two years I was about half way through it if I went to CRC I would have to start all over again I just didn't want to do that I made a decision to stay on and finish it because I was so close to finishing it. In retrospect I should've started over it eliminated any chance of me going to University/College without another qualification.

It was around 1997 when reports started coming through that some of the Christian Brothers at the school were sexually abusing the students there some of them had been convicted of it. This was a horrible end for the school with people wanting to know whether I had been a victim of these monsters at which I was adamant I wasn't I was a victim of school yard bullying.

People wanted me to go and get counselling they felt I may have suppressed memories I knew I did not have suppressed memories I was not sexually abused by anyone at either school I was a victim of school yard bullying! A lot of my classmates decided to move away and start a new life somewhere else they would never talk about their school again I was not left out of that I was told what happened but no one really cared how I felt about it everyone had been told and that is all that mattered to them!

I wasn't going to move away I couldn't really afford it so I decided to go onto University/College after further education I was hoping this storm would blow over it did but I wasn't accepted at Univesity/College at first I ended up going and getting another qualification first then going onto University/College later so I arrived there quite late. It was something I regret now it got me nothing and took me nowhere!

No one at those two schools would've helped you if you ran into a problem they didn't really want to do anything for you does that surprise you?! If it was today I would've felt the same way but back then I didn't feel that way I tried to reconcile and make my peace with them but I didn't understand the situation and made a fool of myself. Would you care to elaborate?! It wasn't school yard bullying they just didn't care they cared so little they didn't even care they had mixed me up with my brother. That was Rod's fault I was told?! It's not possible to know now who's fault it was but back then I believed it was their fault that mistake had been made.

They told me they hate you so much now they don't even care if it was their fault it happened. If they did have a reunion you wouldn't have been invited to it no one would've cared enough about you to invite you but Rodney Ballinger lied apparently and they didn't have a reunion because they didn't want one they didn't really care how you felt about it! It wasn't anything personal you were just the kid no one cared about at the school but Rod had changed that apparently. What they did care about was those that live around you and how they stuck their nose into something that was none of their business they hated them for that they moved out of Corio deliberately because of them!

Some believe that this woman they talk about in Corio was Rod in a disguise because Rod had confessed to them he had done it to them dressed up to look like a woman. Rod hated the community and did this to get back at them for what they had done to his friends at the school apparently you had been told by mistake it was Rod they thought they had told that too they didn't want to tell you anything. Rod forgave them for that but apparently had a problem with the Corio community because he saw it as their fault and went after them in revenge.

You're not going to get anything out of them now they don't exist any more they have all disappeared off the face of the earth and no one knows where they are nor does anyone care any more they've all been destroyed by their own lies and good riddance to them. When it comes to you people want you to know that they don't see you the same way as the two schools you are in many ways a victim but with that said no one really wants to know you or have anything to do with you now because of them.

This University/College degree was three years it would end somewhere around 2003-2004. Around 2 years into this degree (around 2001-2002) I decided to go for a job at the World Trade Center but was unable to make the time so cancelled. In one of life's little ironies it would've been on September 11, 2001 if I went to it the time would've meant I was being interviewed for a job at the time of that attack on the WTC and wouldn't be here now.

I didn't want to deal with it! I think Rod saw me vulnerable and took advantage of it! So many at the Univeristy/College tried to warn me but I wasn't all there! I have never spoken about this time in my life before a lot of people are adamant it would've affected my job interview at Apple and Microsoft some two years later. It's no surprise I was unsuccessful at both of them when they take over 80% of those who apply!

I was on a 72 transist visa you don't need a passport for that as I am waiting to go back to Australia I am arrested by the police taken to the local police station for questioning. They think I am Rodney Ballinger they even put me in prison because they think I am Rodney Ballinger. I was incredulous to this because he was in my dorm at Ballarat University in Australia now he is here in America?! What the Hell was going on?!

My court appointed attorney was just out of school he had never had a case like this before I couldn't even get him to call my family in Australia and tell them what happened I was screwed there was no doubt about it my lawyer was so unhelpful. The Australian (Howard) government offered to replace my lawyer with one that understood Australian values because the American one (the one just out of school) claimed he didn't understand me but they were just as unhelpful.

Out in the general population I am stabbed because they think I am Rodney Ballinger! When they realise they have made a mistake they donate to save me they couldn't believe they had got it wrong again. Some of these guys looked so jacked it looked like they were on Anabolic Steroids. I am moved into solitary and there I am forgotten about except for 1 hour everyday.

What happened, why didn't you go back to University/College?! Rod was stirring up trouble so I moved into another part of the residences but it was worse there! When the Room Administrator let me back into my old room it was unexpected but I stayed hoping it would blow over but it didn't it got worse. I had already said I was returning next semester now I didn't want to return at all. When they gave notice they were increasing prices I used it as an excuse not to return I didn't want to go back.

Then one day the warden comes into my cell tells me Rod has turned up again they weren't expecting to see me here but since I am still here they have no choice but to conclude I am not Rod and release me. I go straight down to the airport to go back to Australia and when I am about to board the next plane to Australia it happens again. The American military think I am Rod and Absent Without Leave (AWOL).

What about the I Come In Peace (Dark Angel) and the Pedra character from the Macgyver series, do you own them or not?! I don't own either of them I never owned them it's a lie! I contacted them myself they told me that! So you're pretty sure they're not yours?! Yes! Why didn't you say anything to those liars?! At first I didn't know anything about it that's what prompted me to contact them and get it checked out I had no idea why it was even happening. And then when you found out it wasn't true you just ignored it?! Yes! I ended up relocating shortly afterwards I don't regret it either I was so over it. Wisconsin right?! No this happened at Fort Brag.

I go to JAG (the Judge Advocate General) but there is something you need to know about a military court, you are guilty until proven innocent I wasn't able to prove I am innocent so my tour which is 18 months is extended to 36 months in punishment for wasting their time. If that wasn't bad enough they use my evidence, my proof I am not Rodney Ballinger to cancel his enlistment and create another now I was Rodney Ballinger for real, I hated them for that!

What exactly did JAG do?! The Rodney Ballinger allegiance was with the Rangers as a Machine Gunner I was forced to assume that I was about 70% through it when JAG got to me. JAG told me I would need to start over it will be with the marines they told me (the JAG lawyer was one) it would take about a month to finalise until then it's business as usual. When finalised I had already completed the machine gunner but there was something wrong with it and the Rangers had redirected it to JAG for investigation so it ends how it starts.

That's why you chose a M249 for your sniper rifle you didn't have to learn a new rifle?! That's correct! So I am assuming when the manufacturer discontinues it in favor of the SAW you chose a replacement rifle?! That's true! In retrospect was that a mistake?! Yes! I should've quit sniper school when they discontinued my sniper rifle I was young and inexperienced and didn't know any better.

I don't understand why this is such a big deal?! The rifle you chose to do your training with becomes part of you, it's an extension of yourself you can't really be without it! In my case I would never find another like it I would hate everything but the M249 which you can't get any more because the manufacturer has discontinued it. I was never that good again unfortunately I just wasn't the same without it.

I am located with the First Ballation Marines (Generation Kill marines) along side Rudy Reyes who just happens to be Rodney Ballinger he has no problem telling me that and how I am going to pay for putting him in this position where he looks like the fake because of JAG! What can I do?! When Rudy says jump they say how high they practically worship the ground he walks on I don't have a hope in Hell because he can do no wrong in their eyes and I can do no right!

It all comes to a head over a suspicious character in Afghanistan Rudy being the spotter I am the shooter! I don't think he's a hostile he is a father and I refuse to take the shot because he's a father. I get offended at how Rudy reacts we are not there to kill them all we are there to facilitate peace I go and take a walk to clear my head I am disturbed by what he has said. He takes the shot in my absence and blames me for it.

They side with Rudy, I am the bad guy! I am not surprised they weren't even interested in my view of it! Godfather (the superior) deals with this by giving me the option to transfer to another marines base I take the offer without question I just don't want to be there any more because Rudy Reyes is Rodney Ballinger and I have been here so many times before and the transfer is to Fort Brag.

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