thinkprogress.org — the Army wrote the orders for 1,162 of these soldiers for 729 days, making them ineligible for full educational benefits under the GI Bill, which requires written orders saying they were deployed for 730 days or more. These soldiers were shorted more than $200 per month for college.
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gadrenOct 5, 2007
Those Republicans sure do love those troops, eh?
chase001Oct 5, 2007
The GOP's support for children and our troops knows no end.
polymath22Oct 5, 2007
bear in mind, even with the pentagons massive budget ( what was it this year, $460 Billion? + "extra war costs") they FAILED to do their primary job; defense. So, we had 19 mal-contents with a $500,000 budget, armed with box cutters, and they were able to kill almost 3,000 people, destroy 4 jumbo jets, 3 sky scrapers ( with bonus points for WTC7), inflict $1.9 Trillion in stock market losses, ON TOP OF hitting the most sensitive military target on the face of the earth. I'd say as taxpayers, we got f**kED. scrap the department of defense, promote the 2nd amendment, lower taxes, everyone lives happily ever after. BTW, we are competing with the EU, which has no military, hence no military tax obligation. As taxpayers, we can't afford to be funding the "world police", providing "security services" for everyone else, especially when they FAIL so miserably at their primary task.at the very least, we should scrap the 1984 new-speak when we call it the "department of defense" and go back to calling it was it is, " the department of war"
hawkeye17Oct 5, 2007
Our soldiers are disposable in the eye's of a vast majority of Republicans. This is just one sick example of our Republican led country(prior to the Republican's getting creamed last year) not taking care of the men and women who have given so much to protect our nation.