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House votes to nix military bands at dinners, dances....
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| 6/18/2016
| Travis J. Tritten
Posted on 06/19/2016 5:40:12 AM PDT by efs111
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And friend of mine is the commander of the US Air Force Band in Japan. She says the band's do anything lot for morale and as ambassadorsuch for the US. This is yet another example of what budget cuts are doing to the military.
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:40:13 AM PDT
by
efs111
To: efs111
The money is needed for sensitivity training.
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:41:31 AM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
To: efs111
so Russia can have massive parades, we can’t even have bands. More examples of a Muslim President being a hater of his own country.
To: efs111
An Army band would play every time we sailed in or out of Yokohama in the 1950s. I wonder where all those MSTS ships are today ?
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:45:37 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: VanDeKoik
and lactation areas as well as “improved” PE for women in combat units ...
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:46:44 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: efs111
United State.
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:47:31 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: efs111
Somewhat tangential but a President Trump can and probably will “retire” all the generals and admirals Zero promoted. The military may just be the easiest way to end “ the fundamental transformation.”. One assumes the current crop of perfumed princes should be growing anxious.
How far should we go to support Trump in this? Well, I would even be willing to put the uniform back on if they have trouble finding conservatives to help out. Somehow I doubt Trump would have to look for help in this matter that he would ever need my help but I am willing to make the sacrifice.
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:48:08 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: efs111; Nachum; xsmommy; tioga
The balls and the dances ARE the social events that make the hardships worth going through for years.
The military “pomp and circumstance” have - sice the Babylonian era, the Greeks and Romans, the middle ages and the Napoleonic wars, been what builds the social “attitude” and morale behind the armed forces between the troops and the officers and their wives behind them..
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:48:36 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: efs111
The bands are musician welfare
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:48:56 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
To: ErikJohnsky
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:49:25 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
To: efs111
“The roughly $500 million that the Defense Department spends annually on bands”
Well, that may help to offset the expense of the multitudinous Obummer vacations, though I doubt it would also cover Moochelle’s millionaire-and-billionaire type wardrobe.
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:49:51 AM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
To: efs111
Cut back the roughly $500 million that the Defense Department.
Like the couldn’t find cuts in illegal aliens party package treats.
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:50:48 AM PDT
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Vaduz
(women and children to be impacted the most.)
To: efs111
This is yet another example of what budget cuts are doing to the military.
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And yet another example of the insanity in the U.S. congress. If they want to cut spending then how about starting with some of the expensive perks and benefits that the congress get?
To: Vaduz
Military Justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:53:32 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: efs111
They finally discovered the power of the purse strings??
To: efs111
do the bands charge for playing???
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:53:50 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
To: efs111
Defund PBS & NPR first!!!!
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:57:27 AM PDT
by
HotKat
(Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
To: Chode
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posted on
06/19/2016 5:58:03 AM PDT
by
TMA62
(Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
To: efs111
A half a billion dollars? That much?
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posted on
06/19/2016 6:04:17 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: efs111
You know how many good tubas $12,000 will buy? Two.
I bet there's a clause in there that allows The President's Own to still play at the White House.
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posted on
06/19/2016 6:07:33 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
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