cutting military paychecks

Reuters ^ | 24 MAY 2011 | David Alexander

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned on Tuesday that policymakers would face tough choices trimming military budgets, weighing cuts in pay and benefits against delays in updating aging ships and jets.

The outgoing defense secretary, who leaves office at the end of June, did not say where he thought the Pentagon should try to cut as it seeks to meet President Barack Obama's goal of cutting $400 billion in spending over the next 12 years.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Baghdad, Iraq Weather: May 28 High: 105 Low 81 chance of presipitation 0%..... Bout/Laskar, Afghanistan Weather: May 28 High: 104 Low 82 0% chance of presipitation Unemployment rate for all previously enlisted is 20%. People recently discharge are finding it extremely difficult to find a job. Military out-placement service sessions are overflowing and overbooked!!!! IMPEACH OBAMA FOR INCOMPETENCE!

[Levante]

Of, course, no cuts to the paychecks of the welfare swine.

[central_va]

Welfare pigs buy lobster and our guys get a cut.

The only solution is for a state to get out of this bastard union, secession. If that leads to another CW so be it. Let some state lead the way and I will come.

[XenaLee]

Don’t Democrats always cut the military first and foremost? They HATE our military, despite their bleats to the contrary. Impeach Obama for being a fraud and a traitor to the oath he flubbed from Day One of his dismal presidency. America can’t afford another four years of this jackass.

[SkyPilot]

Is there any doubt Obama is the worst President in US history?

If you are not black, gay, on welfare, or corrupt - he will harm you.

[SkyPilot]

But in what he billed as his last major policy address, Gates said it was important to maintain modernization funding to replenish worn-out equipment and to develop replacements for Reagan-era weapons that today remain a mainstay of the forces. "Unless our country's political leadership envisions a dramatically diminished global security role for the United States, it is vitally important to protect the military modernization accounts -- in absolute terms, and as a share of the defense budget," he said......The defense secretary said the strategic review could require politicians to look at other uncomfortable choices, including pay levels for service members, new approaches for retirement and pensions, or higher healthcare costs for working-age retirees.

- Medical insurance (TRICARE) for military retirees is already going up 13% just this year, with increases now projected for the each of the next 5 years

- The pay raise for active duty military was the lowest in decades, and the DoD civilians had their pay frozen last year

- Military retirees have not received a Cost of Living Adjustment in 3 years, despite real inflation (that the CPI is lying about)

- DoD civilians had their pay adjusted for high cost areas (locality pay) frozen last year, and again this year

- The DoD is slashing our leadership (general officer positions), and not replacing them

- Gates and Obama just announced a DoD hiring freeze for civilians, and are about to embark on firing thousands of career defense employees

- The officer corps of the Navy and Air Force is forcing out hundreds, but had to renege on a pledge to give a severance check to hundreds of pilots who chose to leave rather than endure more deployments and long hours. So many Air Force pilots put their papers in last March that military had to backtrack about its policy, and then lied about it

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On top of ALL that, we have 3 wars to fight.

On top of ALL of that, Pelosi, Reid, and Obama pissed away $910 Billion in the "Stimulus" pork/corruption bill, another $173 Billion in the "Son of Stimulus" bill, and yet another $26 Billion bill last August giveaway to teachers and state union thugs.

This nation is under the control of demonic forces. Ultimately, our battle is spiritual (see Ephesians 6:12). Our leaders call Good....Evil, and Evil...Good.

We must pray that God will deliver us from these wicked people.

[tgusa]

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Prepare.

[trebb]

Don’t Democrats always cut the military first and foremost? They HATE our military, despite their bleats to the contrary. Impeach Obama for being a fraud and a traitor to the oath he flubbed from Day One of his dismal presidency. America can’t afford another four years of this jackass.

Captain America has died for lack of an America to champion...

[SECURE AMERICA]

NO PROBLEM with military pay cuts.
Just start at the top
Gates
Joint Chiefs
General Staff
By that time you will have made the appropriate dollar amount of cuts..........

[screaminsunshine]

I like the 50 state solution. All 50 states secede and form a new government. Leaving Washington DC out there on its own.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"I like the 50 state solution. All 50 states secede and form a new government."

What about Obama's other 7 states? What do they do?

[screaminsunshine]

DC will join Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Palestine,The Congo, Somalia, and New California to for the Socialist Workers Paradise Obama so desperately desires.

[madmaximus]

Despicable. Yet their union brownshirts/Mafia must always be paid,entitlements must never be ceased, OH NO.

Between this and the future(if not already) homosexualizing of our great military, it’s obvious they despise the very men who made it possible for them to be elected by their creep,criminal base.

[MarineMom613]

My son is getting ready to leave. His words: “I didn’t leave the US Marine Corps, The Marine Corps left me”

His whole life is the military, been in 11 years and wanted to do his 20. It’s just taken its’ toll on him with all the politics and bs. He’s up for Fleet Week and had lunch with the Mayor, SecNav and other dignataries. Glad he got to do that before he leaves.

[madmaximus]

I suspect a lot of other patriotic men and women will leave get tired of the crap, and leave as well. This is all part of the left’s intentional plan to weaken,if not outright destroy, our military.