Do you think that not knowing what’s in your contract makes you exempt from its provisions? Did you also know, when you first enlisted, that you were signing an 8 year contract, and could be recalled to active duty any time between between your active obligation and that date? It was certainly explained to me when I first joined.
“Always a little too easy for the sailors to blame the soldiers, ain’t it? Typically conservative point of view – don’t worry about the solution, assign blame for the problem and then wine about it.”
The only person I see here whining about it is YOU. And no, I’m not blaming the soldiers, I’m blaming the bureaucracy that allowed it. Once it came to light, money was found and the problem was fixed. But you really don’t care about that, do you? You act as if it were a convenient club with which to bash a President.
No, keeping Dover closed to the press was not for the reasons you cite, but the opposite. It was to keep it from being used as you are attempting to use it – exploiting them for scoring petty political shots. They were no longer under that cover once they leave for their ultimate destination. It’s not honoring them to use them in that manner.
YOU are the one who paints the picture as being a Republican caused problem (Republicans have no respect for veterans, they only create them). So when I mention Republicans in their defense, somehow I’m “arbitrary and ideological and wholly unsavory”? For a member of a group who is always so concerned with the nuance and grays of any given situation, you sure hold a black and white point of view, wholly unconcerned with any fact that might contradict them.
V/R,
Jeff Weimer
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