Posted on Oct 21, 2015
Why does cost savings/avoidance have to be on the backs of the military members?
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http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2015/10/20/thornberry-mccain-entitltement-reforms/74266626/
"The measure would allow a lower-than-anticipated pay raise for troops starting in January and includes trims in the growth of military housing stipends, new co-pays for some military drug prescriptions and plans to scale down the commissary benefit." (Why not reduce the cost of failed weapon systems? Oh, because that would mean some Senator/Congressional Rep wouldn't be able to tout their accomplishments for reelection.)
"The measure would allow a lower-than-anticipated pay raise for troops starting in January and includes trims in the growth of military housing stipends, new co-pays for some military drug prescriptions and plans to scale down the commissary benefit." (Why not reduce the cost of failed weapon systems? Oh, because that would mean some Senator/Congressional Rep wouldn't be able to tout their accomplishments for reelection.)
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What infuriates me are these cuts during war times. Who ever thought of giving pink slips to soldiers downrange is an insensitive prick.
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MAJ Ken Landgren, I remember reading about that and I wondered why they would do that. It pissed me off, knowing how I felt as a combat soldier, and how that would have affected me. They have enough on their minds being deployed, without something like that happening. That's a chicken shit way of giving pink slips.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
SGT (Join to see) - We stress honor and integrity. I see no honor in pink slips on a deployment.
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CW4 Guy Butler
Heh. Y'all evidently weren't around for Desert Shield/Desert Storm... A lot of units deployed with their pink slips, then finished inactivating when they got home.
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SGM Steve Wettstein
MAJ Ken Landgren - Sir I couldn't imagine what was going through those unfortunates that got RIFd while deployed. That had to be a massive kick in the junk.
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Sgt Spencer Sikder Brother you nailed with this statement, "Why not reduce the cost of failed weapon systems? Oh, because that would mean some Senator/Congressional Rep wouldn't be able to tout their accomplishments for reelection."
We don't have a large enough voice so we are easy pickens.
We don't have a large enough voice so we are easy pickens.
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