[maine yankee]

So what’s obama’s polling data now with military vets ?

[nuconvert]

Have you seen any other verification of this?

[shove_it]

Keep it up 0bummer and you'll be drawing combat pay. Somebody has already been taking shots at our big white house where you're squatting.

[SF_Redux]

According to Military.com, and the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (H.R. 1540-7 Sec 616) as of February 1, 2012, this new measure went into effect, and soldiers who are to receive the additional $225/mo. combat pay ‘must’ be in immediate risk of harm. The measure is very specific in its criteria for receiving the additonal pay.

[silverleaf]

you think he should get hazardous duty pay for the time he spends at CENTCOM in Tampa?

Not that obama is a competent cinc, far from it, but I think the hazardous duty pay and combat pay has gotten stretched by the military into a pay supplement and an entitlement, rather than being paid for the cirtcumstances it describes. I am all with troops getting this supplement as soon as they deploy, as soon as wheels hit the well, and even when they are on leave, but not when on rotation
back in conus or noncombat zone like Germany or even Kuwait .... if that is what this is all about

[crosshairs]

Go ahead barry. Keep pissing off the military. We’ll need them on our side when they come to the WH to drag your ass off.

[Falcon4.0]

Well, they might not spend their money the right way so Obie's gonna spend it for them.

[PzLdr]

Green fees must have gone up.

[MSF BU]

Interesting implementation quandry. Are they going to pull the combat pay for sailors aboard ships in the Persian Gulf? Are they really in danger of coming under fire? How about those aboard submarines? I’m just playing devil’s advocate here. There have been past abuses I have seen that likely should be addressed. For example, I remember a colonel I worked for who would always show up from The Netherlands and spend the last two days of one month and the next few days of the next in Albania/Croatia, thereby earning combat pay plus the more lucrative tax exemption. The guy had more dimes dropped on him during IG visits than I could count, but nothing was ever done about it. I wonder if they are modifying this as well?

[kidd]

Obama is just begging for a military coup

[LZ_Bayonet]

Dems are always wanting to give money to those with low incomes because they say "they will spend the money, not save it, and therefore boost the economy". [Ignoring the fact that some are poor because they couldn't resist spending.]

So why not use the same rationale for the military. Certainly, if we are going to throw money out of helicopters, the military is more deserving than most.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

You think he can’t go any lower, and then he does. And people vote for him.

[SoFloFreeper]

Yeah, but come on, he IS inviting 200 select members to a special “Praise Obambi for pulling out of Iraq” dinner.