Posted on 02/03/2010 6:16:35 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
More than 2,500 Minnesota National Guard soldiers who are owed a total of $10 million in overtime pay for their deployment in Iraq three years ago are still being told that the check's in the mail.
Now members of the Minnesota congressional delegation are pressing the Pentagon to make good on the long-overdue checks to the state's famed 34th ("Red Bull") Infantry Division, which served in Iraq longer than any other U.S. military unit.
Confronting Defense Secretary Robert Gates in an Armed Services Committee hearing Wednesday, Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., thundered: "My question is when can these soldiers expect to receive these payments?"
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Give them the money earmarked for Acorn.
And the gays....
Kline kicked ass!!!
Typical "Red Star" bias.
True. It was bonus pay.
Wait a minute! OVERTIME??? If you’re in the Guard or Reserves and are activated you get regular military pay according to your rank,marital status,etc...plus supplemental pay (hazardous duty,etc).What;s this about “overtime”?
Bonus pay.
The Strib, in error, termed it OT.
this is the same group that had the sign during ‘04 election ¤”Jon Carry send halp We
are stuk in Irak”
My dad’s division during WWII
Things haven’t changed much since 1783.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/prevents.htm
And mine, as well.
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My son’s division, but he was not deployed with them as he was in basic (or whatever they call it now) at the time. They keep changing the tentative deployment date for him so we never know what the heck is going on.
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