Audrey Gomez
Joshua Peargin knew his job with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs might be on the line when he decided to speak up last winter about discrepancies in information reported by VA facilities.
He was right.
Peargin, who grew up in Sweet Home and served for 11 years in the U.S. Air Force before taking the job with the VA, was fired Jan. 8, 2015, after 10½ months of employment as a veteran…