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Obama: Soldiers in Afghanistan
Must Be Fired Upon to
Receive Combat Pay
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| 2/11/12
| John Bernard
Posted on 02/11/2012 7:49:19 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum
So I guess Obama doesn’t consider getting blown up by an IED actual combat?
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:04:52 PM PST
by
SuziQ
Said the CIC — of course I disagree with the requirement.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:05:41 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(C'mon, Virginia -- are you with us or against us?!)
To: BuffaloJack
Whatever he is or whatever he is not, he is the wet dream come true for the majority of those that voted on november 4, 2008.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:05:41 PM PST
by
sport
To: eyedigress
hasn’t there been enough disincentives for joining the military lately?
24
posted on
02/11/2012 8:05:41 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Repeal The 17th
prayers up for the neph.
Oh and I will state for the record I recvd combat zone pay when we ported (navy vet here) in the PI because the communist guerillas were acting up in the early 90s and I thought it was a farce - since I have tried to make amends for this fiasco as I felt it was an injustice for what it was intended. However, this boots on the ground denigration of our boys is beyond repulsive.
25
posted on
02/11/2012 8:07:35 PM PST
by
reed13k
(Knight Rampant Bibliophile, Protector of Knowledge, Purveyor of Inquiry, Defender of Aged Wisdom, an)
To: Nachum
Another outrage from the Obama Regime! As in Vietnam, the concept of "front lines" is irrelevant. All who have boots on the ground in Afghan are serving in a combat role. There is no "rear echelon" in a war where the enemy uses IED's and so-called "suicide bombers" at any time, anywhere in the theatre.
Combat pay is a portion of the Defense budget that is,or should be, awarded to any of our troops who are placed in harm's way in a theatre of combat, whether they are fired upon or not.
If the Obama Regime wants to save a few nickels, let it pursue some of the rampant welfare fraud and bloated social programs that do nothing other than suck tax dollars out of the hard-working middle class that keeps our economy going.
Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:07:51 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: ProudFossil
I can see the time cards now. Next it will be the amount of firing against the soldier, what type of firing, and if it was friendly fire or not. What a farce.Ya know, John Kerry was wounded in Viet Nam.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:08:11 PM PST
by
bgill
(Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
To: Past Your Eyes
“That must mean Hillary is due some back pay for her service as First Lady then.”
Hahahaha...yeah, Old “Duck and Cover”HC should be reimbursed...that little girl giving her the flowers on the runway could have given her a nasty butterburn from those Daisys she was giving her...
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:08:34 PM PST
by
jessduntno
("Newt Gingrich was part of the Reagan Revolution's Murderers' Row." - Jeffrey Lord, Reagan Admin.)
To: eyedigress
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:09:40 PM PST
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: GeronL
I would have a canteen full of bullet holes, for example, or other sundry equipment shot to pieces. To h3ll with it.
30
posted on
02/11/2012 8:10:25 PM PST
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
Comment #31 Removed by Moderator
To: Repeal The 17th
Our son returned from Afghanistan in June, 2011. Thankfully, he was whole, physically, but suffered a severe concussion when an IED took the 25 year old Platoon Leader’s legs and shattered his right arm. Our son was thrown back and hit his head. Our wonderful son had the presence of mind to be first to rush to his wounded friend and began First Aid. This was three weeks from coming home. When he first came home he was very emotionally damaged from PTSD. At Christmas when he came home he was better. The news last night is the Platoon leader is walking with prosthetic legs and Thank God his arm healed. Please keep prayers coming. This kind of change in policy is why we have to be resolute and make sure that Obama retires to private life on January 20, 3013!!!
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:11:07 PM PST
by
Fran B
(Love!)
To: GeronL
hasnt there been enough disincentives for joining the military lately? Yep. One more reason my kid is getting out.
Too bad, because he's half-way to retirement.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:12:28 PM PST
by
MountainDad
(Support your local Militia)
To: Nachum
Plenty of money for cell phones, bankrupt car companies, failing banks, phoney green energy jobs that disappear, and cowboy poetry festivals but he’s cutting combat pay. He’s about as low as you can get.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:14:38 PM PST
by
hometoroost
(Frodo lives!)
To: GeronL; unkus
This has been the stupidest time in my life. If this jack-ass gets back in office after November, I will be very disappointed in my Country.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:16:00 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)/?)
To: Repeal The 17th
My nephew just arrived there, for, I think, a 6 month TDY.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:16:39 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: Fran B; reed13; Past Your Eyes; SuziQ
Fran B @32
reed13k @25
Past Your Eyes @20
SuziQ @36
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May GOD bless and watch over all of these boys.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:19:33 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: Nachum
IIRC, Slick Willy had tried something similar with combat pay and the award of CIBs and combat patches to personnel in Somalia prior to October '93, refusing to admit that our personnel were involved in any combat.
After October 3rd that year, it became impossible to deny.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:21:15 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: SuziQ
My nephew was home on leave in October when my mother died and he seemed normal. He’s a spook so sits in a room somewhere listening mostly, or whatever spooky things spooks do. But he was being sent out on patrols, too. He’s just a low ranking enlisted puke so who knows. If he told me what he was doing over there he’d probably have to kill me so I don’t ax.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:22:54 PM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm not cut out to suffer fools like this.)
To: eyedigress
This has been the stupidest time in my life. If this jack-ass gets back in office after November, I will be very disappointed in my Country.
If he gets re-elected, millions will be disgusted beyond words and we will see frustrations and deep anger expressed in many ways. People who love their country don’t go lightly into the night when it is being destroyed before their eyes.
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:23:04 PM PST
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
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