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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 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 it got worse he was at his worst there!

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 so 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 going to University/College without another qualification.

It was around 1997 when reports started coming through the press 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 or so I thought.

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 the kid no one cared about! 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 then going onto University/College later so I arrived there quite late I was 24. It was something I regret now it turned out to be a ridiculous waste of time!

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 back then I didn't feel that way I tried to reconcile and make my peace with them I didn't understand the situation and made a fool of myself trying too. 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 now 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. 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 to it 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 they would argue they had lied to them about so much even that was probably a lie in retrospect!

You're not going to get anything out of any 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 they've all been destroyed by their own lies. As for the Corio Community they are still there even now but they don't live there any more most of them have another house where they spend most of their time they can't sell their houses in Corio because no one wants them but that changed with the Ring Road and a lot of them have been able to sell their houses and move away now.

What happened to Corio Primary School or don't you know?!All I know is that Corio PS was a government school and the government merged all the government schools in the area into one then privatised them as Northern Bay College and Corio PS would've been included in that merger but Flinders Peak Secondary College was interestingly not included in the merger.

Do you think Rod had lied about the two schools?! I don't think Rod can tell the truth he doesn't know how too I think he did lie about the two schools. I believed he could tell the truth when he desired it's just he preferred to lie now I know he wasn't telling the truth even when it appeared to be true. The problem in those situations was perspective, what Rod said wasn't wrong but it wasn't right either it was how people saw it, they didn't know which was which they're were just being safe they weren't being spiteful like Rod claimed.

The University/College degree was three years it would end somewhere around 2003-2004 I am forcing myself to complete it at this point I don't really want to do it any more! 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 September 11, 2001 at 10am if I went to the interview the same date and time of that terrorist attack. It changed me forever that one decision not to go to that interview it may have been the reason everything went pear shaped I reasoned. I got stuck in a rut and had trouble moving forward.

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! You can't just ignore something like that and I really should've got counselling over it in retrospect.

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 American legal system is so complicated that while you don't need a lawyer and you have a right not to have one you really should have because American law is very complicated and hard to understand not like the Australian one which tends to be very specific and easier to understand and work within.

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.

Did you audition for Boba Fett?! Yes I did. Why were you unsuccessful you would've been perfect?! It was here I found out what had happened because George Lucas told me. He was funding the Star Wars trilogy out of his own money and he had a problem casting me because of my reputation it may have affected the success of the trilogy. He played it safe by casting someone else for the role and letting me go I don't hate him for it if I was in his position I probably would've done the same. It's a shame George Lucas went that way but at the end of the day it is his decision to make and he made it. For a lot of Star Wars fans it wouldn't have helped the character even more because he was hated and now they had reason to hate him even more because of who was playing the character.

Did George Lucas tell you why he did not cast you as Boba Fett?! He was looking for a specific type of actor to play Boba Fett he told me and I wasn't it unfortunately. My brother who is a Star Wars fan filled in the gaps making it painfully obvious why George didn't want me. Boba Fett's success was mainly luck not because he deserved the reputation he had nor did he deserve his father's armour either Boba Fett got where he was because of luck not because he was good at it.

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).

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 I just wanted them to cancel the enlistment and boot me out!

What exactly did JAG do?! The Rodney Ballinger allegiance was with the Rangers as a Machine Gunner I was forced to assume that role 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 qualification but there was something wrong with it and the Rangers had redirected it to JAG for investigation so it ends how it starts because they had already fixed it.

You're enlisted as a sniper in the marine corps is that 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 you can't be without it but I wasn't aware of that at the time and learnt the hard way unfortunately.

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?! Rudy has them in his pocket he can do no wrong and I can do no right I am just the one they love to hate. I think I stayed there too long I should've moved sooner I wasn't a good fit for those marines and Rudy turned it into a rift!

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 reasons that they are all the same and every one of them should be dead it upsets me so much I go for 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 making it out to be the best shot his ever seen when in all reality it's his first shot with a sniper rifle.

They side with Rudy, I am the bad guy! I am surprised they weren't even interested in my view of it going all in with Rudy's view of it! Godfather (the superior) deals with this by giving me the option to transfer to another marines base he doesn't really want to deal with it since Rudy has the floor. I take the offer without question I just don't want to be there any more I have been here so many times with Rudy/Rod in the past the transfer is to Fort Brag in Texas. The First Batallion was in Pensacola which is in Florida it is quite a move but I don't care and I take it!

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