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Nothing but lip service (for Servicemen's Pay)
Army Times ^
| Juje 30, 2003
| Army Times
Posted on 07/06/2003 9:31:29 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa
Edited on 05/07/2004 10:06:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: usmilitary; wages
But --- you can get a tax break on your hummer H2.
To: WhiskeyPapa
Army TIMES SSDD.
The at located in Springfield VA, has been complaining for years about everything every administration has done.
The only thing they were good for was printing promotion scores and they got those wrong occasionally.
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posted on
07/06/2003 9:39:49 AM PDT
by
dts32041
("The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.")
To: WhiskeyPapa
As my brother used to say "NOTHING" is too good for the men in service.
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posted on
07/06/2003 11:03:59 AM PDT
by
ex-snook
(Who recovers in a 'jobless recovery'?)
To: dts32041
The vets in south Texas are upset because our government is building a hospital for illegal aliens. According to the DIHS this will be the first of its kind, not the last. If any of you want to look it up, go to google and type in Port Isabel SPC.
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posted on
07/06/2003 11:17:33 AM PDT
by
texastoo
To: WhiskeyPapa
Wlat, since you voted for Clinton twice and Gore, why don't you give us your views on the military.
To: PistolPaknMama
Wlat, since you voted for Clinton twice and Gore, why don't you give us your views on the military.My views on the military are pretty old fashioned. That is why I joined up when I was 18 and was silly enough to insist on a combat arms assignment. My recruiter promised me solemnly that I could be a tanker. As I recall my orders out of recruit training read something like: "FOR FURTHER DUTY TEMPINS at INFANTRY TRAINING SCHOOL CAMPEN CA"
Walt
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posted on
07/06/2003 4:20:19 PM PDT
by
WhiskeyPapa
(Virtue is the uncontested prize.)
To: WhiskeyPapa
So you were a Hollywood Marine? You should have have known better than to think you were going to get your primay MOS choice. All Marines are 03 first.
So you didn't get your primary request and this is why you voted for Clinton and Gore? You hate the military as much as they do?
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