{"id":2113,"date":"2008-07-23T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2008-07-23T13:06:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T17:06:56","slug":"why-the-new-stoploss-bill-is-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"Why the new stop\/loss bill is ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bill now in Congress would pay them an additional $1,500 a month of extended duty. The measure, introduced by U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.), also would make payments retroactive to October 2001, covering servicemen and women affected by stop-loss since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is being considered by committees in both houses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Got that from a website I am not linking to, but they stole it from a Philadelphia Inquirer article which I couldn’t immediately locate.\u00a0 (Ok, now located<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Either way, this is wrong on several different levels.\u00a0 First off, you signed the enlistment contract either a) knowing that Stop\/Loss could potentially effect you, or b) without doing even cursory\/rudimentary research.\u00a0 I refuse to believe anyone who says they didn’t know about it who also claims to have looked into what they were getting into.\u00a0 Usually anyone saying that is of the “I joined the infantry because they said I would have a lot of field time, which I thought meant picking carrots and stuff” type of moran.<\/p>\n

Secondly, because of my own personal situation, which as you will see would benefit me to the tune of $7500.\u00a0 I joined the National Guard in March of 05 on a “try one” contract.\u00a0 You essentially try out the Guard and see how you like it.\u00a0 I knew when I signed the papers I would be deployed in 1 week.\u00a0 I did the try one so I never had to do any of that home station crap I always loathed.\u00a0 I wanted to deploy, and deploy I did.<\/p>\n

So you mean to tell me that because I signed on a “try one” fully knowing I would get stop lossed because the deployment was 18 months, that I should get an extra $1500 per month?\u00a0 That’s just ludicrous.\u00a0 If that were the case, I advise EVERYONE to get out immediately.\u00a0 Find a NG unit leaving, and do a try one.\u00a0 You’ll get an extra $7500 each deployment tax free, and never have to do a day of drilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bill now in Congress would pay them an additional $1,500 a month of extended duty. … Why the new stop\/loss bill is ridiculous<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}