{"id":27535,"date":"2011-11-17T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27535"},"modified":"2011-11-17T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:57:09","slug":"senate-cuts-focuses-on-personnel-and-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27535","title":{"rendered":"Senate cuts focuses on personnel and weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Air Force Times<\/a> reports that the Senate Armed Services Committee has focused their spending axes on personnel and weapons budget cuts…because, ya know, who needs people or weapons to fight wars when we have such a brainiac in the White House with all of that “smart diplomacy” he’s got goin’ for him.<\/p>\n

A detailed list of savings released by the armed services committee Wednesday morning shows the committee reduced personnel funding by $100.6 million, partly by cutting unspent balances from previous years, and partly from new estimates by the Congressional Budget Office of how much would be saved with a change in hostile fire pay included in the bill.<\/p>\n

The measure, proposed by personnel panel chairman Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., would change hostile fire pay from a monthly rate to a daily rate.<\/p>\n

The revised bill also would trim $330 million from the defense health-care account. The cut may not affect patients, however, because it is based on new assumptions on private-sector health-care expenses, the committee said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if anyone thought that paying hostile fire pay by the day would create an accounting nightmare that might cost more to enforce than the savings? Nothing makes me feel confident about their healthcare cuts for patients when they use the phrase “…based on new assumptions….” Especially since doctors aren’t allowed to make assumptions on their patients.<\/p>\n

Here’s a history lesson for the Senators; In 1950, President Truman decided that he wanted to intervene in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea so he sent the only troops he had available to do the job – the 1\/21st Infantry of the 24th Infantry Division, commanded by Lt. Col. Charles B. Smith, which had been on occupation duty in Japan for five years. The Battalion’s understrength manpower of less than 500 Americans faced 4000 North Koreans and their tanks, who despite the infantry battalion’s best efforts, rolled right through the US forces in a few hours.<\/p>\n

The Army had been slashed to shreds after winning the war against Hitler and Tojo. The infantrymen arrived in Korea with their anemic numbers and only nine rounds for their bazookas to fight off a Korean Division.<\/p>\n

The phrase “Task force Smith” has driven our foreign and military policy for over half-a-century, but these clowns think they’re immune to the lessons of history. Who among my readers is willing to be the first to die so Congress can learn this lesson again? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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