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It's downright dirty on the part of the governemnt to deply National Guardsmen overseas just 1 day short of the time needed to be eligeible for benefits. 22 months in Iraq, but just a day short under the GI bill. What a slap in the face.
1 posted on 10/04/2007 9:15:22 AM PDT by doc30
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Tell the Pentagon we don’t want them saving money this way!


2 posted on 10/04/2007 9:18:49 AM PDT by RoadTest (The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in)
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+1. I’ve just started using my GI bill as an active duty vet. I’d be seriously pissed if I was a Guardsman and they refused to pay me that bennie. That’s absurd.


3 posted on 10/04/2007 9:20:25 AM PDT by ConservatismNow (Iran is just a fantastic natural resource crying out for new, more responsible owners.)
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Goddamned ridiculous those veterans are the reason there is a pentagon and a country, war vets should get a whole ass load more than they do now.


4 posted on 10/04/2007 9:23:16 AM PDT by utherdoul
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I’d wait a while before condemming anyone. I smell a Geraldo-like reporter here (talentless, ugly, and completely without morals).


6 posted on 10/04/2007 9:25:55 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Anderson's orders, and the orders of 1,161 other Minnesota guard members, were written for 729 days. Had they been written for 730 days -- one day more -- the soldiers would receive those benefits to pay for school.

That does sound very fishy... I hope some penny-pinching bureaucrat bean-counter in DOD gets pinched for this.

7 posted on 10/04/2007 9:27:32 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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Saw this on the news last night

Of course they had to call it Rumfield's Pentagon

Geez, I hate the media.

9 posted on 10/04/2007 9:30:52 AM PDT by coder2
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A deal is a deal.

Matter of fact, I wouldn’t want any money going towards a ‘masters in public administration’ or a degree in law enforcement. They are both fake, useless, overcosted featherbedding ticket punching.

This guy is going to manage public finances, rules and regulations? And he doesn’t think it applies to him? He should not of made a promise he could not keep. On the other hand, making promises that you know are not right, and then mau-mauing and victimizing is a good start for a political career type.
What about the guy that wants/is a cop? Why do we have rules, regulations, codes, ordnances, local state and federal laws by the hundreds of thousands of pages?

10 posted on 10/04/2007 9:33:27 AM PDT by Leisler (Liberalism. It is not a philosophy, it is a disease.)
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Yeah, the DoD does this stuff all the time.

The Guard members were prob. Mobilized for their tour. If they are, they can only serve 2years within a 5yr time period under a Operation, ie Operation Noble Eagle.

As such, they DoD would have to issue a whole new set of orders under a new Operation, which is not gonna happen.

13 posted on 10/04/2007 9:53:23 AM PDT by BGHater (Bread and Circuses)
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This is ABSOLUTE F$%KING BULLSH!T! I’ve got friends in the MN ARNG that I’ve helped out finacially and otherwise while they’ve been deployed, and the WORTHLESS G#DDAMN BEANCOUNTING GOVERNMENT DESK JOCKEY LOSER PIECES OF CRAP sh!t on them like this while giving every worthless POS bastard on wellfare more of my tax money? It’s damn near time for and armed revolt. Maybe I’m overreacting, but this kind of thing makes me want to hurt people.


20 posted on 10/04/2007 12:49:27 PM PDT by lesser_satan (FRED THOMPSON '08)
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Just an update on this story, but Err Amerika is running with it like crazy right now. They were interviewing the Lt. mentioned in the story I posted. It is pretty bad when those bastards outflank conservative talk radio on this issue. Arrgh!


21 posted on 10/04/2007 1:33:28 PM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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