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Offline Chairboy

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« on: November 21, 2007, 05:23:00 PM »
http://kdka.com/local/military.signing.bonuses.2.571660.html

The US Military is telling veterans severely wounded in Iraq to return their signing bonuses because they didn't serve out their entire useful term.  These are people who had arms, legs, eyes and more blown off in battle.

Seems like a pretty rotten deal.
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Offline SaburoS

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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2007, 05:38:57 PM »
No kidding. But that's been our country's MO for veterans.
You're no longer of use to us so you're forgotten.
Minimalistic care, having to jump through hoops to get what's due, dang it's criminal. We need to revamp how we do things.
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Offline JB88

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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2007, 05:49:58 PM »
damn straight we do.

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Offline john9001

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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2007, 05:53:19 PM »
check house bill H. R. 3793
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2007, 06:00:39 PM »
Why can't the democrats support the?!?!  .... oh .... wait .....
« Last Edit: November 21, 2007, 06:03:39 PM by Arlo »
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« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2007, 06:15:10 PM »
this is total crap.

I don't care what you are Dem, Rep or Joes freedon party, write your congressmen or women. This just makes me sick.

Even if it turns out to be true (which I dought) do it anyway.
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« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2007, 06:23:04 PM »
Disgraceful

Utterly disgraceful
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Offline VOR

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« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2007, 06:26:44 PM »
HA! Believe it.
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Offline john9001

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« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2007, 06:31:28 PM »
before every ones blood pressure goes off the scale did any of you read HR 3793?

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it was a over sight, it will be corrected.
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Offline Hornet33

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« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2007, 06:32:34 PM »
Must just be a DOD thing. I recieved a $30,000 bonus less than a year before I was medically retired. I asked my lawyer if I was going to have to pay that back. He found me chapter and verse from the Coast Guards personel manual where it stated that any member of the Coast Guard who is discharged or medically retired after having recieved a bonus "SHALL NOT" have to pay the bonus back.

As far as the DOD I don't know but if a soilder recieves an enlistment bonus, serves, and gets wounded in the process to the point they are no longer able to serve, then they have fullfilled ALL their obligations to their contract, and should be allowed to keep the bonus.
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« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2007, 06:33:12 PM »
Why can't the democrats support the?!?! .... oh .... wait .....
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« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2007, 06:39:38 PM »
Arlo, can you cite a connection between the democrats and this?  Is this a side effect of the funding debate?
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« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2007, 06:52:47 PM »
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Arlo, can you cite a connection between the democrats and this?  Is this a side effect of the funding debate?


What john want's everyone to see:

H.R. 3793: Veterans Guaranteed Bonus Act of 2007

To amend title 37, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Defense to continue to pay to a member of the Armed Forces who is retired or separated from the Armed Forces due to a combat-related injury certain bonuses that the member was entitled to before the retirement or separation and would continue to be entitled to if the member was not retired or separated.

Sponsor: Rep. Jason Altmire [D-PA]

Cosponsors [as of 2007-10-20]

Rep. Shelley Berkley [D-NV]
Rep. Robert Berry [D-AR]
Del. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]
Rep. Nancy Boyda [D-KS]
Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]
Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA]
Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL]
Rep. Christopher Carney [D-PA]
Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA]
Rep. Joe Donnelly [D-IN]
Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]
Rep. Brad Ellsworth [D-IN]
Rep. Barton Gordon [D-TN]
Rep. Phil Hare [D-IL]
Rep. Tim Holden [D-PA]
Rep. Darlene Hooley [D-OR]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]
Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]
Rep. Patrick Kennedy [D-RI]
Rep. Harry Mitchell [D-AZ]
Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-PA]
Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]
Rep. Jon Porter [R-NV]
Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]
Rep. Heath Shuler [D-NC]
Rep. Clifford Stearns [R-FL]
Rep. Bart Stupak [D-MI]
Rep. Betty Sutton [D-OH]
Rep. Ellen Tauscher [D-CA]
Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY]
Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]
Rep. Zach Wamp [R-TN]
Rep. David Wu [D-OR]
Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]

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The above, I'm told, absolves bureaucratic policy and previous practices under the current administration.

Why can't the democrats support the ?!?! ... oh .... wait ....

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« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2007, 07:21:06 PM »
Pwnage :aok
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« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2007, 07:41:38 PM »
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Pwnage :aok


Reverse Pwnage:

The President’s Commission on Care for our Nation’s Returning Wounded Warriors, co-chaired by former Senator Bob Dole and former Secretary Donna Shalala, found that the Department of Defense (DoD) is unfairly penalizing our nation’s wounded veterans by not providing them with their full enlistment bonuses. This legislation would require the DoD to provide veterans who have been discharged due to combat-related wounds with the full payment of any and all remaining bonuses within 30 days of discharge.

TGFPB!

It comes down to an oversite, a republican finding the problem, and democrats running to it like rats to make themselves look like they provided the cheese.
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