Never Forget
Posted on 04/05/2014 7:41:29 AM PDT by darkwing104
No Honor Allowed for POW/MIA Display
e Missing Man Table is a semi-official place of honor in some dining facilities of the U.S. armed forces in memory of fallen, missing, or imprisoned military service-members. The table serves as the focal point of ceremonial remembrance, originally growing out of US concern for the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue.
The display consists of small table with a white table cloth, an inverted glass, a plate with a lemon and salt, a single rose and yellow ribbon. To a few the most offensive part of the display is the Bible.
Patrick Air Force Base
The missing man table had been a prominent fixture in the dining facility for years until last week when the commanders decided that the presence of the Bible was too controversial and had it removed. Base officials informed Fox News’s Todd Starnes that the display was removed because of the Bible. The Holy Bible was seen as a distraction to the purpose of honoring POWs/MIAs. They felt it was proper to replace the place of honor and remembrance with a POW/MIA flag.
Air Force leading the way
While addressing the House Armed Services committee Air Force Chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh insisted that there was no war on religious liberty on the service. He complained that “the single biggest frustration I’ve had in this job is the perception that somehow there is religious persecution inside the United States Air Force.” Oh really! Representative John Fleming (R-La.) told Todd Starnes that the “Air Force seems to be the worst offender when it comes to attacks on religious liberty.”
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Never Forget
today’s Air Force is NOT the one I served in from 1986-2006. Proud to have served, glad to be retired.
Disgraceful how things are these days in the USAF. Indicative of how bad it really is in this country. Worse days are coming I am sad to say...
Never forget, Comrades, that Christianity is the enemy of the Revolution.
/s/
IMHO
the founders of that commie revolution said it was so....
I see another supreme court case being born
Call your elected Elitist and express your outrage!
202-224-3121
Of course, if someone were to put a Koran on the table, asshat Air Force weenies would be afraid to say or do anything.
sad bttt
I am ashamed of what the once proud, strong, and determined U.S. Air Force has become.
It has become the home of “career officers”, not “military officers”.
It has become a home for queers, malcontents, human beings that cannot decide which way they swish - today, human beings that have no respect for the beginnings of the Air Force, and the traditions that have come from that, and those that have joined ONLY for self-mercenary, or self-redemption-by-the-court-system types.
The examples shown to us, are the examples we take home with us. So, by these known examples, I am most glad that -I- served during the Vietnam War, and the Cold War in the years after till I finished.
I was not only an active duty member of the USAF of olde, I was an Air Force Brat, too!!
The purge of faith and morality continues.
“I see another Supreme Court case being born.”
Hopefully, before they’re able to tilt it completely to the port side. (Seems that Justice Roberts is helping them along.)
IMHO
All traces of Christianity being purged from schools, the military, CEO boardrooms, and everyday life, like it were an evil disease.
All while faggotry is worshipped and celebrated. Sick, sick, sick, what America is turning into. Intimidation, thought police, PC insanity, and deification of evil.
Man must serve only the government of Man, period, in this day of Leftist Ascension. Hence the adoration given to the leaders of men by those who hope to curry favor. The climate in this country today is exactly what happened in 1933 somewhere else. Blame not a man but rather the government - Obama like Hitler is only the face of the government’s evil; should one day disgrace and defeat be attributed to Obama, he too will be renounced as that man who once led Germany in its intolerance.
Obama has done a clearing of Anti-Gay. Our next Conservative POTUS needs
to clear our house of these despicable degenerates. And I mean clearly
that our enemies of this Country need to be blackballed out of our Gov.
Adm. Denton just passed on. His POW experience is exactly opposite of the removal of the Bible.
This stuff should awaken the low info’s soon.
Navy not the same either. MANDATES mean loss of FREEDOM!
11 days to go, still no formulary!
TRICARE LIFE Retired Military over 65 just received this noticed 2 weeks ago, takes effect 4/14/2014, why they sent a prelim with out the drug list is WASTEFUL spending in itself!
DOD MANDATE is forcing us to use either Base whose drugs are limited by size of base and is not wheel chair or handicap friendly or Express Scripts MANDATED Tricare Life. starts next month. 4/14/14, still have not got the formulary, waste to do 2 send outs. Express Scripts is a sorry excuse of a provider. You never know if your order is right, what generic, what manufacture, or what country. All thrown up on your porch for the local thieves and meth makers to steal.
YOU WILL LOSE YOUR PHARMACY THANKS TO NEW DOD BUDGET!
This is a Prelim letter, we don’t even know at this time which drugs are going to be on the list. Waste of money to not send out the full thing.
1 Transfer your medication from a retail pharmacy to save , convenient Tricare Home Delivery and pay less out of pocket! A typical cost for a 90 day retail supply is $51 but only $13 for Home Delivery.
2 Ask your doctor about using a low cost generic that is not among the medications included in the Pilot Generics can still be filled at retail for $5
3 Transfer maintenance medications under the Pilot from retail pharmacy to a military pharmacy. Call your local military pharmacy to see if they have you medication
4 Continue to get you selected maintenance medications at a retail and pay 100% of the cost of the medication starting with your third refill.
If you refill your selected maintenance medication’s at a retail pharmacy after March 14, 2014 you’ll get letters from the Tricare Pharmacy contractor Express Scripts, Inc about switching to Home Delivery. Remember, starting with your third fill you will be responsible for 100% of the cost of the medications if you chose to continue to obtain them at a retail pharmacy.
If you have other health insurance with a prescription benefit, you do not fall under the Pilot. There will also be a process to obtain waivers on a case by case basis, due to personal need or hardship, emergency or other special circumstaces-0 such as living in a nursing home. After participating in the Pilot for 1 year you may opt out.
Military Waste and Fraud Continue In the Middle of the Government Shutdown HERE IS YOUR PROBLEM : PALM GREASING
Washington’s Blog lots of links
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/wasted-military.html
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part1
Mugging our Troops
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part1
Pentagon Outlines Increased Tricare Fee Proposal
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/03/05/pentagon-outlines-increased-tricare-fee-proposal.html?comp=7000023317828&rank=1
0bama to Force Military Families Away From Tricare ...By Tripling Their Fees. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.”
CBO: The military is getting squeezed for domestic spending cash
http://www.humanevents.com/2014/02/26/cbo-the-military-is-getting-squeezed-for-domestic-spending-cash/
State Side Tricare Service Centers Closing April 1
http://m.military.com/daily-news/2014/01/14/stateside-tricare-service-centers-closing-april-1.html
Tricare PRIME
http://www.armytimes.com/article/20130802/BENEFITS06/308020011/DoD-silent-major-changes-Tricare-Prime
2 links
Starting Oct. 1, the Pentagon plans to reduce Tricare Prime service areas to within a 40-mile radius of active or former military installations, forcing 173,000 retirees and their family members to switch to Tricare Standard or seek a waiver if they live within 100 miles of an existing network.
The decision will affect retirees and their dependents in Prime, and those on Tricare Young Adult Prime. That totals 98,771 people in the Tricare South
Air Force MiCare
http://www.military.com/military-report/air-force-micare?ESRC=miltrep.nl
DoD silent on major changes to Tricare Prime
http://www.armytimes.com/article/20130802/BENEFITS06/308020011/DoD-silent-major-changes-Tricare-Prime
Proposed TRICARE FEE CHANGES
http://www.military.com/benefits/tricare/retiree/proposed-tricare-fee-changes.html
ES buys out Medco
29 Billion
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120402/NEWS/304029961
Express Scripts Extortion Scheme Widens
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/09/express_scripts_breach.html
Express Scripts complaints
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/rx/express_scripts.html
EX Fraud
https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/directory/express-scripts
I pray that there are no Retirements until obama does...
But, they WILL provide PRISONERS with the Koran....
if Islam does not control a society, then injustice dominates it, ipso facto. But if Islam dominates it, then justice rules it (In the Shade of the Qur’an, vol. 7, pp. 8-15). Islam is expansionist and must conquer the whole world to express Allah’s perfect will on this planet, so Qutb and millions of other Muslims believe.
I’ve been in the food and beverage industry for decades, and owned dozens of restaurants and hotels, but have never heard of this tribute before.. Great idea, but the fight is too late, or too early..
We won’t change a thing, if ever, unless we put a super majority in congress and a decent conservative in the White House..
It’s a futile fight that will only stir the less conservative moderates to stiffen their resolve against religion.. I know thats a tough pill to swallow, but it’s true..
I see the proudly extended fist of the Christophobe “Mikey” Weinstein in this and any other anti-Christian manifestation in the USAF.
Their chief of staff is a complete disgrace.
Yes, and sadly, the Air Force is leading the purge.
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