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“Servicemembers, including those engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, would continue to serve, but without pay since military personnel accounts would be exhausted.”

“Servicemembers, including those engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, would continue to serve, but without pay since military personnel accounts would be exhausted.”

Can anyone point me to any other country in the course of human history that has placed itself in the position of denying its own troops and citizens to provide for benefits to their enemy?

270103. The CERP is designed to enable local commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan to respond to urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction requirements within their areas of responsibility by carrying out programs that will immediately assist the indigenous population. The CERP may be used to assist the Iraqi and Afghan people in the following representative areas:

A. Water and sanitation.

B. Food production and distribution.

C. Agriculture.

D. Electricity.

E. Healthcare.

F. Education.

G. Telecommunications.

H. Economic, financial, and management improvements.

I. Transportation.

J. Rule of law and governance.

K. Irrigation.

L. Civic cleanup activities.

M. Civic support vehicles.

N. Repair of civic and cultural facilities.

O. Repair, or payment for repair, of property damage that results from U.S. coalition, or supporting military operations and is not compensable under the Foreign Claim Act.

P. Condolence payments to individual civilians for the death, or physical injury, resulting from U.S. coalition, or supporting military operations not compensable under the Foreign Claims Act. Condolence payments may include payments (sometimes referred to as ‘martyr payments’) made to the surviving spouse or next of kin of defense or police personnel who were killed as a result of a U.S. coalition or supporting military operations.

Q. Payments to individuals upon release from detention.

R. Protective measures, such as fencing, lights, barrier materials, berming over pipelines, guard towers, temporary civilian guards, etc., to enhance the durability and survivability of a critical infrastructure site (oil pipelines, electric lines, etc.).

S. Other urgent humanitarian or reconstruction projects.

[Taken from: DoD Search for 'Commanders Emergency Response Program' ^ first PDF.]

Maybe its long past time we all declare war on the feds and then have them come in and rebuild OUR infrastructure! Sheesh !! No wonder the rest of the world believes we are made of money, and have streets paved with gold. Washington sure acts like it -- meanwhile screw the troops!

The bulk of the Rats in this Congress are traitorous. They hate the president so much they are using our military to further their political agenda, they’re doing it now and they’ve done it in the past.