Trying to find a link to support something I repeated in a post above, I ran across this interview of MB by JVM.
In it Mike reports that he got a call at around 11:30AM from his apartment manager for permission to let the co-worker Soldier into the apartment - that Kelli hadn't reported for work. Mike tells it as if this is the first he's hearing that Kelly is missing. (scroll down pretty far)
"And I got the phone call Monday around 11:30 from my apartment manager and Kelli's lieutenant was here and they were wondering why or if I knew where Kelli was, and I said no. She should be at work, and, you know, I'm thinking it's 11:30 so why hasn't she shown up for work. So they asked me if they can go in the apartment and I said for sure, you have my approval to go into the apartment and check to see if she was ok, you know."
. . . more at link.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/25/ijvm.01.html
This is the interview where MB states that Kelli's sergeant, who MB says he called after he received the call from the apartment manager, tells him that Kelli didn't show up for work
'last night or today'.* :waitasec:
*per my husband Army retired. - Sunday night if Kelli didn't report for duty in a non critical position it would be written up and reported to the company commander the next morning. For a critical position they'd try to hunt her down immediately while, at the same time, finding a qualified replacement. In either case, if the sergeant is also a friend, my husband believes the common sense thing would be that he would call the PFC's home and cell number to find out where the heck she is and find out why she's not at work (so he doesn't have to write her up). Then if that wasn't done, in the morning, the sergeant must officially report that the PFC didn't report for duty the night before.
Here's where MB's comment gets tricky ~
That same PFC that was supposed to work the night before, wouldn't be expected at formation the next morning at 6AM because she would still be at work as her shift would not end until after the morning formation was over. As a matter of fact, she should be off duty on Monday as soon as her replacement showed up (husband is telling me that back to back shifts don't occur without an emergency).
So, if Kelli was due into work on Monday morning, she'd have formation early in the AM. When she didn't call or report Monday morning, they'd conduct a telephone search first which, it sounds as if they did. When Kelli didn't answer her phone, the LT drove out to her place to check on her well-being.
Further explanation is needed to determine why Kelli would have been expected to work Sunday night as well as expected to show up Monday morning. Unless the well-being check that was done was based on her not showing up for her night shift alone.
