How Bush's Pentagon Supports the Troops
posted by
Wally
3:36 PM
By making them pay back their "Signing Bonus" if they fail to complete their tour of service due to things like bullet wounds, missing limbs, brain damage, etc. You can't make this shit up. Nobody is heartless and evil enough to pull shit like this, with the exception of Pentagon policy-makers and ditto-head freepers supporting the troops by slapping yellow ribbons on the back of their SUVs.Jordan Fox received a $10,000 signing bonus when he joined the Army. The Mt. Lebanon man served his country in Iraq, where as a sniper he survived machine gun battles and a roadside bomb that knocked him unconscious and blinded him in his right eye.
The injury forced the military to send him home. A few weeks later, Fox received a bill from the Department of Defense, saying he owes the military nearly $3,000 from his original enlistment bonus because he couldn't fulfill three months of his commitment.
This is apparently not an isolated bureaucratic foul-up. The military is allegedly demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.
To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses - up to $30,000 in some cases. Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back. Aside from being a purely evil thing to do, what the fuck are these military bureaucrats and policy-makers thinking? Do they think soldiers are going to still be enticed to re-up in order to get a signing bonus that they'll have to repay if they get shot up or blown up? Do they think kids are going to sign up based on this?
I know a lot of high ranking military leaders have resigned or been forced out because of Bush, Cheney and Rummy Axis of Idiocy, but are the remaining leaders really that fucking stupid to think this is a good way to cut expenses? If so, let's bring our front line soldiers back home and put them in charge, and put the Caseys and Patreauses on the front line. Let them take the bombs and bullets. They make much more money and much higher bonuses, so the military will save even more money when they have to pay them back.
Support the Troops. Bring them home. In one piece.
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