{"id":34035,"date":"2013-02-07T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34035"},"modified":"2013-02-07T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:08:22","slug":"no-money-for-military-pay-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34035","title":{"rendered":"No money for military pay, but…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Denise Williams, at Chicago Now<\/a> read our post yesterday about Leon Panetta preparing us for cuts to military pay next year, and she noticed that despite our own cost cutting, there’s still money enough to arm the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.<\/p>\n

This short-sighted, misguided and simply foolish aid package does at least have some strings attached. Not in how those weapons will be used, not in securing religious freedom or any other human rights for the people of Egypt, but only in how the aid package must be spent. Simply put, we are giving Egypt money which they then must spend on US manufactured weapons of war. And our elected officials and military leaders in the Pentagon say those strings are there to bolster our economy and ensure US jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Someone noticed in the comments yesterday, that there’s even enough money to extend benefits to same sex couples in the military – but none for our own readiness, and to keep the good warriors who learned the hard lessons of the last war – you know, the one that is still going on now (Associated Press<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has not made a final decision on which benefits will be included, the officials said, but the Pentagon is likely to allow same-sex partners to have access to the on-base commissary and other military subsidized stores, as well as some health and welfare programs.<\/p>\n

Panetta must walk a fine, legal line. While there has been increased pressure on the Pentagon to extend some benefits to same-sex partners, defense officials must be careful not to violate the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. The federal law forbids the federal government from recognizing any marriage other than those between a man and a woman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there’s that study to see if women can be manly enough. We can spend money on that, but not on retention, and the folks who have to pass on their lessons to the next generation of warriors – you know, like those guys who stuck it out after Vietnam to train my generation.<\/p>\n

It’s almost as if they want to destroy the military and make us vulnerable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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