Showing posts with label United States armed forces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States armed forces. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

I Got your back…I Love the Military

Obama Urges Congress to Support Tricare Fees

On Monday the White House pressed the Pentagon to rein in Tricare costs and begin a new round of base closings as the Senate took up the National Defense Authorization Act on the military’s 2014 budget….

Veterans and  Retirees Write your Politicians and remind them that we fought for our right to vote and that we do exercise it… A lot of us were promised Free medical if we gave the Government 20 years… Now we pay through the teeth twice?

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Hoping for some Change

  The people in charge should be kicked out and required to personally pay this money back...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cannot produce about $1 billion of receipts for fuel and other supplies it bought in Iraq using Iraqi money, a government investigation has found.
The total amount of funds unaccounted for has now reached a staggering $7 billion, officials say — and they warn that the Iraqi government is likely to demand at least some of that money back.
The United States has been managing billions of dollars of Iraqi money through the U.N.-created Development Fund for Iraq (DFI)"
 UN is running our policy?

Monday, July 26, 2010

Safety burden shifts to State Department after Iraq war Military urged to aid workers with logistics

Hillary Clinton,Iraq, Who will provide Security once DOD is out of Iraq? I expect the Body Count to go up.
Amplify’d from www.washingtontimes.com

Safety burden shifts to State Department after Iraq war

Military urged to aid workers with logistics

The Obama administration has not settled on a plan to protect and supply thousands of State Department diplomats and employees left behind in Iraq once all but a relatively few U.S. troops leave the county in a little more than a year.
In what would be the first time a large contingent of American government workers will remain in an active war zone without U.S. military protection, the State Department is urgently demanding that the Pentagon provide equipment at no cost.
The State Department also wants the Army to let it tap into the huge, billion-dollar logistics system that fed and supplied more than 100,000 combat troops at one time. So far, the Pentagon has not given the State Department an answer.
"I can't think of another time when the State Department will have been required to take over a mission of this magnitude," Grant S. Green, a member of the special Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, told The Washington Times.
Read more at www.washingtontimes.com

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