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PSA: Stop-Loss Payments -- ACT NOW
The very first time I got worked up about a defense policy issue and made a stink about it in public concerned the misguided stop-loss policy. The U.S. government, though, has now authorized special payments to those of you who were affected by this policy. Now listen carefully: You have ONE MORE MONTH to file your claim. (I'm looking at you, Flash.) Please do so. Get your money, because, if nothing else, C.R.E.A.M. (Dollar, dollar bills, y'all.)
Exum, what is this? I know of
Exum, what is this?
I know of one case where a person's MOS netted him over $100,000 /yr for five years from re-up bonuses. That is not your E8 salary. Contractor pay is a joke.
This special pay is just that special. What they did not get their normal paychecks?
What happened to serving your country. My father was packed like a sardine on a ship going to the front line in WW2. The barracks were wood, NO air conditioning. At one point he guarded pay, they flew to Brazil to pick up payroll cause you got paid in cash, he said the money got a Mae-West and he got a ten pound Thompson Sub Machine Gun. There was no armor or bullet proof glass, he ran on the running board of the vehicle with the Thompson. When he did SP duty, there was no COIN, if he used his sidearm he had to pay a nickel for the bullet. When he was not doing that, he was a belly gunner in Navy planes again no armor chasing U-boats. They saw U-boats too, his mother got the War Department letter that he was KIA.
People in American Jails today get better accommodations than our GI's from WW2 and they lined up to serve.
Every GI that signs on the dotted line knows that they can be recalled, that is the deal.
BTW....What people do not know is the guys that went to sign up for selective service at the post office when they turned 18 since the end of the draft can be called at anytime the government desires. It has already been done, about 8-10 years ago when the military was short on select MOSs people with no service record were tapped.
Tuff to be an American. Pays to volunteer.
Bah - no provision for people
Bah - no provision for people recalled from the IRR.
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/direc
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/123513p.pdf
Since 2005, per the above directive, if you are inside your MSO there is a provision. You need to reply to the DOD Mailgram.
Outside the MSO, you can show hardship.
This is a good
This is a good one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/the-pentagon-budget-and-the-de...
The retirement system is both unfair and increasingly expensive. Most veterans, including many who have served multiple combat tours, will never qualify for even a partial military pension or retiree health benefits. These are only available to those who have served at least 20 years. Those who do qualify can start collecting their pensions as soon as they leave service, even if they are still in their late 30s, making for huge long-term costs.
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Mr. Obama called for a commission to study possible reforms. But the change the Pentagon reportedly has in mind, phasing in a 401(k)-type plan for future retirees, is the wrong way to go. Military pensions should not be held hostage to stock market gyrations. Partial pensions should be made available to those serving less than 20 years. Payments should begin at normal retirement age.
Gee, I do not know of any Private Company the gives partial anything for partial service. It is even harder to find companies that give anything for retires, those benefits were striped away in the 90's. To get company healthcare, that is about $6,000/yr and rising everyday. Tricare payments are right out of the 70's. The people that make all those electronic whizzies that DOD buys mostly only get 401k's.
The reality, with the new world order and off-shoring, you are lucky to get to the age where company healthcare is available to a retiree. It is hard to contribute to a 401k if you do not have a job, when you get rehired most likely you will not see matching contributions to your new 401k.
Guys, I hate to say this, with globalization and everything going off shore. It is hard to find a US company that has allegiance solely to the US of A. In this world of "what have you done for me lately", we do not honor our senior employees anymore. They are a liability.
Bottomline: The more we push past our US borders, the more being a GI becomes just another career.
Who and what are you protecting? Twenty years ago, I would never have said that. Today, I just do not know any longer.
It is a heck of a thing to say.
Off topic, with regards to
Off topic, with regards to your tweet vs. Bradley coaching Egypt: I wonder what the Cairo Ultas will make of that? Lol, they were the ones who stormed the Israeli embassy, and carried Tahrir Square..
Fnord on September 28, 2011 -
Fnord on September 28, 2011 - 5:49pm
Cairo Ultas? Bradley?
Think there is more interest in Hillary coaching Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr. Lot of ink on that subject these days.
If Egypt is so hard up for money, why do they keep buying so much military equipment? Heck it is not even US military stuff, it comes for Europe and Turkey. Egypt is sending flood Aid to Pakistan.
Gee, it seems like Egypt has a lot of money.
Meanwhile, Hillary is pushing the US Congress to swap Egyptian debt so that they have more money to spread around. State Department has already let loose $140 M to Egypt. Not sure if that includes the $90 odd Million that she stroked during her fly through a couple months ago. Washington Post is crying about the $80 odd Billion aid that countries promised Egypt.
Think Egypt needs to stop making bad decisions, they are looking more like Greece every day.
How IS Greece doing these days? How IS the American economy these days?
Lot of ink on that subject
Lot of ink on that subject these days Online University, university diploma, Certificate Program
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