Obama: Soldiers in Afghanistan Must Be Fired Upon to Receive Combat Pay

Big Peace ^ | 2/11/12 | John Bernard

[Nachum]

While I understand that only a fraction of the population of this nation is directly affected by what you are about to read, I would never-the-less like to remind you that the remainder of the population is affected coincidentally. While the majority of the American population probably never even considered the Armed Forces as a possible career objective, there are those who never considered life without serving their country, in uniform, on a field of combat. Most of these young men and women never take the time to internalize some idealized vision of charging death for God and Country,

[The Black Knight]

Yeah, people like that make me pretty angry. Don’t get me wrong, I love the nice little extras you get for time downrange (Family separation, tax free, hostile fire pay). But honestly, I would happily go downrange for free. The only people that will be hurt by this are freeloaders, who in my opinion are a disgrace to the uniform. General Washington and his boys marched on bloody feet to get to Valley Forge. Someone who complains because they only got $7.50 instead of $225 EXTRA while only in theater for 1 day can come complain to me and my trusty Tomahawk.