Homeless Veteran USAF Colonel Now Lives In His Car Because He Cannot Find A Job

Photo: At the peak of his career, Freniere was a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan (right)

From The Pentagon To Life In A Van -- Philly.com

After a 30-year military career in which he earned three graduate degrees, rose to the rank of colonel, and served as an aide to Pentagon brass, Robert Freniere can guess what people might say when they learn he's unemployed and lives out of his van:

Why doesn't this guy get a job as a janitor?

Freniere answers his own question: "Well, I've tried that."

Freniere, 59, says that his plea for help, to a janitor he once praised when the man was mopping the floors of his Washington office, went unfulfilled. So have dozens of job applications, he says, the ones he has filled out six hours a day, day after day, on public library computers.

So Freniere, a man who braved multiple combat zones and was hailed as "a leading light" by an admiral, is now fighting a new battle: homelessness.

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Update: From commanding the skies to sleeping in a minivan: Homeless veteran USAF colonel now lives in his car because he can't find a job -- Daily Mail

My Comment: Talk about bad luck .... but here is the sad part .... most homeless vets do not receive the pension that he now receives.