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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Military Shafts National Guard

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=71741

If the jist of the following story is true, W needs to fix
the B.S. now. This is politically (and morally imho) stupid.
I highly doubt that this was a top down purposeful tactic used
to save money. No matter who or what drove this, W needs
to tac another day on these folk's deployment and give them
what they have coming. From the original story:


1st Lt. Jon Anderson said he never expected to come home to this:
A government refusing to pay education benefits he says he should
have earned under the GI bill.

"It's pretty much a slap in the face," Anderson said. "I think it
was a scheme to save money, personally. I think it was a leadership
failure by the senior Washington leadership... once again
failing the soldiers."

Anderson's orders, and the orders of 1,161 other Minnesota
guard members, were written for 729 days.

Had they been written for 730 days, just one day more,
the soldiers would receive those benefits to pay for school.

"Which would be allowing the soldiers an extra $500
to $800 a month," Anderson said.

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