Posted on 10/01/2014 10:03:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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WICHITA, Kan. - A major cut for the Air National Guard unit based at McConnell Air Force Base.
According to Sharon Watson with the Adjutant General's Office in Topeka, around 30% of full time guard members at McConnell will be cut. That works out to around 150 jobs. Plus at least 60 part-time jobs are being cut as well.
Most of those guard members will get work at other guard locations in the state.
The 127th Command and Control Squadron was eliminated earlier this month. We also know the 184th Munitions Squadron is also being eliminated and the 177th Information Aggressor Squadron will be cut later this year.
"If you are one of the airmen who isn't going to have a job at the end of the day and you have mortgages, or kids in college, its tough," said Wing Commander Colonel Jeff Jordan. "There is no doubt about it, we are trying to do everything we can to help."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at kwch.com ...
We pay some on welfare better than we do those working. Why not cut the ones on welfare?
That’s racist AND sexist and homophobic and....
What’s evil is cutting paying jobs when people are paid not to work.
I worked off-and-on with welfare recipients at the unemployment office for almost 20 years (the other half was with veterans) and you have NO IDEA how bad it is.
And there’s an “independent” news reporter Lisa Kennedy Montgomery who says defense cuts are a lie. FIRE her.
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